The Homegrown Vendor Blog

Zones decide who can order. Routes decide what order you drive in. Only a handful of platforms do the second, and under about twelve stops a free map beats all of them.

No ordering platform fully solves this. The platform choice matters for exactly one thing: whether the pickup address shows publicly or only after payment. And many state cottage food laws require you

Taking the order, collecting the money, and remembering who gets what on Saturday are three separate jobs. A form replaces one. A payment link replaces one. Only a storefront replaces all three.

Calculating the right rate at checkout is common. Filing a return with each state is rare. Remitting the money is rarer still. Before you believe any feature name, ask which of the three it actually d

Seasonal food vendors get sold the wrong number. Every pricing page leads with a monthly rate and an annual discount, and neither answers the only question that matters: what does this cost in a month

WooCommerce's platform fee really is zero, and by its own published figures a minimal food store still costs more than Big Cartel or Shopify. The cost that decides it is not on any price list.

StandScout has no checkout, which puts it in a different budget line than every platform you might compare it to. And the paid tiers do not make you easier to find: the listing itself is free.

Nothing to start, nothing until $15,000, and 3% only on money you actually kept. The free threshold lasts longer the smaller you are, which is the right way round. What to watch is the crossover at $2

There are two separate price lists here, metering two different things. Work out which line you are on, count the relevant number, and your tier picks itself. Then get the processing rate in writing,