The purpose of this site is to promote community food-buying clubs. When I first joined a food-buying club in Alsea, Oregon, I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I never knew such a thing existed.
I decided to use my programming skills to contribute back to the people who started it and made it work, and to help this great idea spread. I have written internet software that makes the administrative and organizational tasks of running a food-buying club very simple. It allows people to join their orders together quickly, keeping track of prices for each item, and can even handle splits, where many people split a single case of something. It takes much of the headache out of combining orders to send to the wholesaler, and then figuring out how much everyone owes after the order comes in.
The software can be downloaded for free and installed on your own web site, or it can be used directly from here. I have set it up so anyone can start their own food-buying club and use this site to process all your orders. Please see the demonstration before you make an account, to make sure it will work for your food-buying club (login=sample password=sample). Currently the order form entry fields are designed for Mountain Peoples Warehouse (on the west coast). If your distributor uses a different layout, please let me know and I can customize it for you.
I hope this site will grow into a community effort, like other free software projects. Please tell me any improvements you would like to see made in the software. Even better, please help me develop it if you have the skills. This is a completely volunteer effort.
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And I look up to the people who are less bought than I, You can show them what you're selling, and they'll only ask you why. And their paychecks don't have lots of zeros, They're my friends and they're my heroes. And the TV sets are angry cause they just can't make 'em pay, But I like the way these people read the signs and walk away, -- Dar Williams |