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GrazeCart publishes exactly one number and hides everything else behind a sales call. What $89 buys is sell-by-weight, which almost nothing else offers, capped at three delivery zones that most farms

For any CSA delivering under $7,500 a month, which is most of them, Farmigo's price is $150 a month rather than 2%. That is $900 for a six-month season, and an effective rate of 3% to 10% depending on

Cococart's pricing page is unusually detailed about everything except the number that decides your total. At $2,000 a month, the fee you cannot see is more than four times the subscription you can.

Cheddar Up's free plan is the expensive one: a 95-cent fixed fee on a small food order is enormous. The genuinely good deal is eCheck, where a $200 payment costs 95 cents instead of $7.77.

Big Cartel is the cheapest credible general storefront for a small food business, roughly $200 a year less than Squarespace, Shopify, or Wix. And because it does not set your card rate, a good rate yo

The plan choice is worth $96 a year. The payments choice is worth $612. Bakesy Secure Payments charges 3.9% plus 30 cents and it is entirely optional, which makes this the cheapest setup in the catego

Bake.Shop's annual plan pays for itself at 7.9 months. Year-round bakers save $79 by paying annually; a three-month holiday baker loses $92 doing the same thing. And processing costs three times eithe

At the tier a food business will actually buy, these two cost the same to the cent. The differences are at the edges: one cheap plan cannot take payments at all, the other quietly charges 2% of every

Etsy costs about two and a half times what Square Online does per order. That premium is not waste, it is the price of a marketplace that brings you buyers. The test is whether it actually is.