How selling on Marketless Farmer works
A quick-start guide to running your shop on Marketless Farmer: publishing your storefront, adding products, scheduling batches, handling orders, and talking with buyers.
Publish your storefront
Until you publish, your shop is in draft mode — buyers won't find you on the marketplace map or in search.
Open the Storefront tab. Use the Setup Guide widget in the lower-right corner to see what still needs filling in: business name, bio, profile photo, address, and workspace type. Items with a green check are done.
Once your profile is complete, the "Go Live" pill at the top of the Storefront page becomes clickable. Tap it, confirm in the modal that pops up, and your shop is now publicly visible.
You can flip back to offline any time from the same pill — going offline doesn't delete anything, buyers just stop seeing you on the map until you flip back on.
Add a product
Open the Products tab from the sidebar. Click "+ Add product" at the top right.
Fill in a name, price, and short description. Pick a category that matches what you're selling — the dropdown is filtered by your workspace type, so you'll only see relevant categories. Choose a status: In Stock if you have it on hand right now, Pre-Order if buyers need to wait, or Made to Order if it's built per-request.
Upload up to four photos. The first photo is the main image buyers see in your shop; the other three appear on the product's detail page. Drag the corner of any photo to crop, or rotate using the toolbar.
Hit Save and your product goes live immediately if your storefront has been published.
Set your hours
Open the Hours & Fulfillment tab from the sidebar. The Hours card lists every day of the week.
For each day you want to be open, click into the Open and Close fields and pick the times you sell. Days you skip stay marked Closed.
Hit Save when you're done. Buyers will see your hours on your public storefront and a green "Open right now" pill when you're currently inside one of your windows.
One thing to know: setting hours also makes your full address public on your storefront, so buyers can drop by during open windows. If you'd rather coordinate by message, leave hours blank.
Add a fulfillment method
Fulfillment methods tell buyers how they'll get their order. You can have multiple methods active at the same time — buyers pick one when they request an order.
Open Hours & Fulfillment. The Fulfillment Methods card is at the top. Tap "+ Add fulfillment method" to set up a new one. Pick a type: Farm / Home Pickup (buyers come to you), Farmers Market (you bring it to a market booth), or Local Delivery (you bring it to them).
Add a short description so buyers know exactly what to expect — for pickup, that might be "ring the bell at my front porch." For market, "I'll be at the Hillsboro market Saturdays 9-1." Specifics help.
You can pause any method without deleting it, useful when you skip a market for a week or take a vacation.
Schedule a batch
Batches are limited-time drops — one bake, one harvest, a single Saturday's worth of pies, a holiday cookie sale. They show up in their own row on the marketplace home page so buyers can grab them before they're gone.
Open the Events & Batches tab and switch to the Batches sub-tab. Click "+ Schedule Batch", give the batch a name and cover photo, and set one or more pickup windows (date + time range buyers can collect their order).
Add the products that are part of this batch from your existing catalog. They don't have to be new products — you can include any listing you've already created.
Hit Save and the batch is now visible on your public profile and the marketplace home page until your last pickup window closes. After that, the batch automatically wraps up.
Post an event or class
Events are different from batches. An event is a thing buyers can attend — a class you're teaching, a market you're hosting, a community gathering, a u-pick day.
Open the Events & Batches tab and stay on the Events sub-tab. Click "+ Post an event" and fill in the basics: title, date and time, location, short description, cover photo.
Buyers see your event on the marketplace's events feed and on your public profile. They can RSVP if you set a capacity limit, or just show up if it's an open event.
Posting an event doesn't lock anything to it — buyers can still request orders or message you about other things while the event is on.
Mark which markets you'll attend
Roll Call is where you tell buyers which farmers markets you'll be at.
Open Events & Batches and find the Roll Call panel. Pick a market from the list (we've pre-loaded Oregon's farmers market directory). Then check off the dates you'll be attending — usually a Saturday or two ahead.
Buyers searching "what's at the Hillsboro market this Saturday" will find your name on the result. They can come find you at the booth without needing to message first.
You can also tag specific products to a market attendance. If you're bringing the holiday cookies on Saturday, tag them — buyers see "these products are at this market this weekend."
Handle a sales request
When a buyer submits a Request Order, two things happen: a new row shows up in your Sales Requests tab and a message thread opens in Messages.
Open Sales Requests to see the order at a glance — buyer name, items, fulfillment method, requested date. Tap the row to open the conversation in Messages and chat with the buyer about pickup details, substitutions, or anything else.
Walk the order through the status flow as it progresses: New → Confirmed (you accepted it) → Ready (it's waiting for the buyer) → Completed (they have it). The buyer gets a short notification message in the thread automatically when you advance the status.
If something needs to change — the buyer wants more, you ran out of one item — see the "Update an order's items or pricing" guide.
Update an order's items or pricing
If you need to change quantity, price, or remove a product from an order — say you ran out of one thing — you don't need to cancel and re-do anything.
Open Sales Requests, find the order, and click the chevron arrow on the right of its row to expand the editor. Each item shows an editable Qty and Unit $ field plus a small Remove button.
Make your changes, then hit "Save & notify." The order's total is recalculated automatically and the buyer gets a single message in your thread describing exactly what changed and the new total.
Faster than canceling and starting over, and the buyer gets a clean record of the adjustment.
Use Quick Actions
Quick Actions are pre-written replies and one-tap status changes you can fire from any conversation.
Tap the lightning bolt next to the message composer. A menu opens with the most useful action for this conversation pinned at the top.
Three kinds of actions: Combos send a message AND advance the order status in one tap (e.g., "Mark Ready + notify" sends "your order is ready" and flips status to Ready). Reply with… pre-fills the composer with a draft (pickup address, order summary, market location) — you edit before sending. Status only flips status without sending a message.
There's also a Negotiate section: Update price (propose a new total, buyer accepts with one tap) and Update pickup time (propose a new date, same flow). Quick Actions are smart about your conversation — they suggest what's most useful based on the order's status and what the buyer just said.
Cancel an order kindly
Sometimes you need to cancel — you ran out of stock, the date doesn't work, or you're just not able to take it on right now. Don't drop the buyer cold.
Open the conversation, tap the lightning bolt for Quick Actions, and pick "Cancel order." A modal pops up asking why.
Pick a reason: Out of stock for this round / Can't make the requested date / Not able to take this order on right now / Other (write your own). Add any extra context if you want. Hit "Cancel + send" to commit. The buyer gets a friendly message explaining why, and the order is marked Cancelled.
Cancellation isn't the end of the relationship — most buyers appreciate the honesty and come back next round.