The Homegrown Vendor Blog

Your address leaks from six places and a storefront controls one. Here is what a platform can actually do, and the label rule most guides skip.

Two benchmarks: subscription around 1% of revenue, all-in including processing between 4% and 6%. Above 8% means one specific line is wrong.

Almost no food ordering platform has pre-purchase messaging, and that is the right call. Every question is a sentence missing from your product page.

Most platforms let you name several pickup points. Few give each its own day and cutoff. And Square's paid plans are priced per location.

A spreadsheet-and-DMs setup is three jobs held together by you. Most tools replace one. Here is what replaces all three, from $0 to $149 a year.

Most platforms advertising local delivery only decide who can order. Very few sequence your stops. Here is which do, and when you actually need it.

Selling at a market and online needs one catalog, one stock count and one payout. Square is the strongest answer; Big Cartel is the $144-a-year alternative.

If orders reach you two ways, the feature that decides everything is whether you can enter an order yourself. Here is which platforms allow it.

Automatic sales tax means three different jobs. Most platforms only calculate. Here is which ones file and remit, and what each charges.