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March 31, 2022

Online Farmer's Market—Benefits for vendors and customers

The era we live in has a growing demand for convenience in shopping, more-so for food. Customers want to be able to access a variety of fresh groceries and have them delivered to their door at a minimal cost. While farmers are focused on reaching as many customers as possible, so they can sell off their products quickly.

An online farmers market like Hrvst, understands the needs of both the farmers and customers, and brings both parties together in a place where they can find the value they desire.  

To begin on Hrvst, customers simply need to download our food delivery app and start shopping while vendors would need to go through a verification and subscription process to start selling on our food marketplace. At Hrvst, we care that each order made by a customer takes them closer to their healthy lifestyle goals, which is why we give extra attention to our vendor verification process.

Benefits of Hrvst for customers

Customers want a reliable place where they can order for food at ease. Here are some of the benefits of ordering for food on Hrvst:

1. Easy online ordering

There is a variety of fresh groceries, dairy products, meat, poultry, condiments, fish, etc that a customer can add to the cart. They can then place an order, proceed to payment, and expect the delivery in minutes. This process saves time and money.

2. Timed Delivery

Unlike physical markets where a customer must rush through people to buy fruits and vegetables, an online food market takes on the whole responsibility of taking the food from the farm to the customer’s house—No crowd or lengthy queues. The customer can fix a same-day delivery or place an order for a future date.

3. Best quality groceries

To minimize complaints and maintain reputation, farmers ensure that they deliver the freshest produce to their customers. There is also an assurance that in the rare instance that a poor-quality produce is delivered, the farmers would investigate the situation and do the needful.

4. Stay Organized

Customers can see a list of all the past orders they have made and can repeat an order when they want to. It also gives the opportunity of keeping track of expenses made on fresh groceries.

Benefits of Hrvst for farmers

On Hrvst, we partner with a variety of vendors to make fresh foods available to customers. Here are some of the benefits of being a vendor on Hrvst:

1. Access to a large customer base

To sell more and make more money, farmers join an online farmer’s market like Hrvst so they can reach more customers. A wider-market reach helps farmers enhance their revenue. Also, when a farmer has new deals or discounts on a product, this pool of customers can leverage it which brings more sales to the farmers.

2. Advertisement opportunities

When a farmer has an ongoing promo, they can be featured on banner ads or be listed on top searches. They can also pop up as recommendations to customers based on their buying habits.  

3. Automated processes

Core activities like managing products, managing orders, payments and deliveries are automated to make general flow of business more organized.

Wrap up

Hrvst is an online digital marketplace that offers the value mentioned above, and more. With the increasing demand for online delivery of fresh foods, farmers can now have a sustainable additional revenue stream from registering on our marketplace. Customers access food delivery services by downloading our food delivery mobile app once we launch.  

Like to be an early test user? Kindly click here to sign up. You can also follow us on our social platforms to stay updated.

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