Indie Shopping Verse
Re-imagining the Local Shopping Experience
A unique ecommerce solution to create collaborative economies of scale and democratize the ability of communities to grow their own local ecommerce ecoystems.
Build it and they will come
Collaborative Economies of Scale
farmnivorous
farm.ni.vor.us
adjective
The state of preferring to buy fresh, natural foods directly from the local farmers and artisans who make them.
noun
The heart of the Indie Shopping Verse, farmnivorous is an ecommerce store that does everything an artisanal farm would want. It also works great for restaurants and caterers... especially if they buy from members using farmnivorous. Did you say, "interactable menus with dynamic lineage to locally sourced foods?"
The basics
Pricing, availability, and sales management by venue, date, or customer list... easily managed from your phone.
One account, many storefronts
Create or join collaborations easily, like maker markets or holiday fairs. Your products and inventory show on your store and on the collaboration host's store with no extra effort.
Many ways to manage your cash
Take online orders without online cards/fees, or easily connect/open your Stripe account to process online and onsite orders. Where cards are used, Stripe processes sales and remits your individual proceeds directly to your bank account. The ISV team never touches anyone's sales proceeds.
For Entrepreneurs and Visionaries
Super Community Marketplaces
The Indie Shopping Verse is not another basic online marketplace. Indie Shopping Verse is a suite of ecommerce tools designed to help small businesses tap a competitive edge against the big box brands. The farmnivorous store makes it easy to have multiple online storefronts with collaborative online markets, and Super Community Marketplaces are how we organize all of those farmnivorous stores and collaborative markets into a browsing experience for a given town or city.
Democratized collabrative markets
Any member can create shared venues, which turn that member into a host. Visiting customers see products of participating members after they choose the venue.
Democratized last-mile delivery
Members create venues to coordinate sales. A venue can be a place where a customer picks up their order or a delivery option. Restrict delivery orders by zip code. Members can build their own collaborative online markets with last-mile delivery for stores in their own zip.
Democratized Super Community Marketplaces
Indie Shopping Verse is a de-centralized collection of super community marketplaces, each a partnership with a local business that wants to bring the Indie Shopping Verse experience to their own town (or hobby). We manage the technology, while our partners curate the local experience.
Say hello
Tell us about you
Curious about joining the Verse, opening a store on farmnivorous, or hosting a Super Community Marketplace in your town? Send us a note — we read every one.