E-Commerce Options for CSAs and Other Ag Retail

If you are considering launching an online platform to sell direct to customers, there are some helpful resources for comparing your options.

E-Commerce Fact Sheets

This two-page fact sheet published by the New Entry Sustainable Farming Project (NESFP) in 2022 compares six eCommerce platforms, providing evaluations of features, user ratings and links to additional information about each platform.

This 2021 report from the CSA Innovation Network provides farmer ratings for eight of the most popular farm sales platforms and four additional platforms that are not farm-specific but used by many farmers.

E-Commerce and Online Software Webinar Recordings

If you are interested in a deeper dive, NESFP hosted a webinar series in 2022 exploring a range of e-commerce and web-based marketing platforms available to farmers. Each session includes a farmer discussing the benefits and drawbacks of each platform. Recordings are all available on NESFP’s YouTube Agricultural Technology and Online Software play list and include: