Now offering a Cash PREpayment Option!

We have found a way to offer you lower prices!  Since we aren't selling products, but are instead taking your orders and payments straight to the farms for us to simply pick up and deliver, we can take cash PRE-payments from you, to be applied to your account, so that you can place "cash" orders which do away with those pesky credit card fees!  

The steps to utilizing this option are below.
 

THE HOW:

Step 1: Make a prepayment (deposit) using Zelle (or bring us a check) for an amount that will cover any of your orders.  (Example: $200.  You can always add more to this deposit at a later time, if you find that your order totals will be more than the initial deposit.)  This amount will be applied to your account, and you can view this balance at anytime when you login.  (Payments MUST be received prior to the order period, so that the deposit or payment can be verified before applying to your account.)   ***Be sure to send Zelle payments with a Memo that states your FIRST AND LAST NAME (please use the name you have on your account with us).  

Step 2: If we haven't already done this previously, we will change your Customer Type to a Cash Prepay Customer, which will tell the system to automatically decrease your service fee in order to remove the 3.5% credit card fee from your total.  (If you are a Cash Prepay Customer, the system will NOT accept a credit card payment from you, unless that status is changed again.)

Step 3:  Once this prepayment is applied, you can place your order, as usual, selecting "cash" as the payment method.  

Step 4:  When you arrive to pick up your order, bring a check to us for the exact amount of that order.  When deposited and cleared, this will leave the initial $200 deposit in your Unapplied Payment balance for your next order.  (If, for some reason, your check does not clear, the payment will be taken out of the Unapplied Payment you made as your deposit prepayment.)

Easy peasy!


NOTES:
*Your prepayment MUST be received PRIOR to order week.  If attempted during the ordering period, we cannot guarantee that your Zelle payment will be received in time to apply to your account, which could result in your order being placed AFTER the deadline.  We do not want this, so please submit cash prepayments before order week.  

*Your order total MUST be less than the prepayment amount.  If your order is more than the prepayment amount, your order may be cancelled, and you will need to resubmit it as a credit-card payment order, adding back the 3.5% credit card fee. (If the order period has ended before we catch this scenario, there will not be time to resubmit your order.)


We are SO excited to offer this option.  We know it is detailed, but we hope that it will allow you to support local farms and vendors even more!
And, for those who do not want this option, we DO still accept credit card payments for your orders!





 

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