Selling Food Online

With online sales of food and groceries growing fast, and predicted to continue, how will you create an online food store that can really deliver?

You need something that is simple to use for both you and your customers. You want to charge for the actual weight you supply. Your customers want to know when their order will be delivered.

Sounds simple but until now such a product hasn't been available unless you had it specially created. This takes time and can be very expensive.

FoodCommerce is a complete and affordable solution to selling food online. It answers all the unique problems associated with selling food and is available immediately. An online store can be yours today.

I want to deliver to my customers myself...

• Create delivery areas, routes and days with Local Home Delivery or Milk Round delivery types.
• Use Local Home Delivery to offer supermarket style bookable delivery time-slots.
• Use Milk Round for set delivery routes and better vehicle efficiency.

I will use a courier delivery service...

• Let customers decide the day their order will be delivered with our Courier Delivery type.
• Send text message reminders to customers mobile phones on the day of their delivery.

My customers will order online and then collect...

• Create as many customer Collection Points as you need. Your own shop for example or maybe a neighbouring village store.
• Customers can book the day and time they will collect

I want to take card payments but won't know the final value until I have prepared the order...

• FoodCommerce securely stores the customers payment card details with Sage Pay when they place their order. The payment can then be taken after the order has been prepared.

My online store must reflect my business identity and use my domain name...

• Everything about the look of your store can be changed directly in the Control Panel. You don't need a web developer as we do this for you as part of the initial set-up. For a small additional charge we can also run your store on your own domain name (see our prices).

FoodCommerce versus ecommerce

• With off-the-shelf ecommerce solutions payment has to be taken at the time the order is placed. This means you lose the opportunity to charge the customer for the exact weight you supplied. FoodCommerce solves this problem by storing the customer's card details securely with Sage Pay and later instructing Sage Pay to take the payment.
• Customers like to know when their food will be delivered and for many being able to book a delivery day and time is essential. With FoodCommerce you offer your customers bookable delivery slots. Something you cannot do with off-the-shelf ecommerce solutions.
• The FoodCommerce Control Panel has all the tools you need to process customer orders including: daily to-do lists, picklists, taking payments, making refunds and printing delivery notes. These tools are not available with any off-the-shelf ecommerce solution.
• FoodCommerce allows you to offer a similar service to online grocery shopping from the major supermarkets.

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