6 Storefront Sales Hacks to Boost Business Sales

Want to make 2026 your best sales year yet? With Local Line’s powerful food and farm sales features, you can maximize your revenue, simplify operations, and keep customers coming back. From recovering lost sales to creating irresistible offers, these 6 storefront hacks are designed to help you sell smarter and grow faster.

1. Recover lost sales with Abandoned Cart Emails

Cart abandonment is one of the biggest challenges in e-commerce. Studies show that 70% of online shopping carts are abandoned before checkout—that’s a significant chunk of revenue slipping away.

Local Line helps you recover these lost sales with automated Abandoned Cart emails. These emails are sent two hours after a customer leaves items in their cart without completing a purchase, reminding them to return to your storefront and finalize their order. By reaching out while their interest is still fresh, you increase the likelihood of converting these potential customers into paying ones.

Since launching this feature, farms using abandoned cart emails have in average recovered over $1300 in potentially lost sales.

How to enable Abandoned Cart Emails on your store:

1. Navigate to your Storefront Settings.
2. Scroll to Automated Email Notifications.
3. Toggle on Abandoned Cart Email.

Are you looking for the easiest fix to help recover potentially lost sales? Toggle on this feature right now! This simple yet effective tool ensures you capture as many sales as possible and maintain customer engagement.

2. Track conversions with Google Analytics

Understanding customer behaviour is key to optimizing your sales strategy. Adding a Google Analytics Tag to your Local Line storefront gives you actionable insights, such as:

• Traffic data: See how many visitors are coming to your store, where they’re coming from, and how long they stay.
• Conversion rates: Track the visitors' purchase percentage, helping you identify improvement opportunities .
• Behaviour analysis: Understand which pages or products are getting the most attention and what might need tweaking.
• Campaign performance: Monitor how well your marketing efforts, like Google or Facebook Ads, drive traffic and sales.

How to add your Google Analytics Tag to your store:

1. Go to your Storefront Settings.
2. Enter your Google Analytics ID in the designated field.

By leveraging analytics, you can identify trends, measure the success of your campaigns, and adjust strategies to ensure sustained growth.

👉For more info on this feature or how to add a Facebook Pixel to your storefront, check out our article: Track and Optimize: Adding Facebook Pixel & Google Analytics to Your Local Line Store

3. Improve navigation with Product Categories and Tags

A cluttered storefront can deter potential buyers, but clear navigation keeps customers engaged. Using categories and product tags in Local Line, you can help customers find exactly what they want while streamlining your backoffice operations.

• Categories: Group products into broad categories, such as "Fruits," "Vegetables," or "Meats," to make browsing easy. Categories also have their own unique URLs, which you can add to email or social campaigns. Note: you can add products to multiple categories!
• Tags: Use descriptive labels like "Organic," "Seasonal," or "Grass-fed" to help customers refine their searches further.

For example, customers looking for seasonal root vegetables can easily filter products tagged with "Seasonal" and "Root Vegetables," making their shopping experience seamless and efficient.

Categories can also be used as a sales tactic. Stacie from Edwards Family Farms is in Local Line nearly every day, fine-tuning her storefront to make it easier and more engaging for customers.

“I’m always in there moving products around, creating categories, and trying new things,” she says. “The layout and organization really matter.”

Instead of listing hundreds of products by type, she curates creative, theme-based categories that make shopping faster and more fun. “I have a ‘Customer Favorites’ section that’s usually sold out, just for social proof,” she explains. “Then there’s ‘DIY Chicken Broth,’ ‘Collagen Boosting Faves,’ ‘For the Risk Takers,’ and even one just for pet products. I make it easy for people to find what they want with the least number of clicks possible.”

How to create categories and tags on your store:

• Categories: Go to Price Lists, select the list you want to edit, and click Edit Categories. Add new categories and assign products with the Move to Category option.
• Tags: Under the Products tab, select a product, add tags in the Product Info section, and save.

Well-organized storefronts enhance the customer experience and encourage more purchases.

4. Increase your Average Order Value with Product Bundles

Bundling products is one of the best ways to boost your Average Order Value (AOV). Customers perceive bundles as offering greater value, encouraging them to spend more in a single transaction.

For example, instead of selling individual cuts of meat, offer a Farmer’s Choice Box that includes a selection of cuts at a slightly discounted price. This increases your revenue and helps customers discover more of your products.

Local Line’s Box Builder feature makes it simple to create bundles tailored to your customers’ needs, whether they’re seasonal produce boxes, sampler packs, or themed gift baskets.

How to get started with box builder:

1. Use the Box Builder feature to create customizable bundles.
2. Highlight the value and convenience of your bundles in your product descriptions.
3. Promote your bundles through newsletters, social media, or limited-time offers.

You can also use bundles to price anchor your other products. For example, Stacie from Edwards Family Farms creates premium, meat box and lists it as the first product on their storefront to encourage higher-value orders.

“I’ll create a big, premium box at the top of a page to make everything else look like a better deal,” she says. “Sometimes people even buy that top box, which is always a fun surprise.”

5. Create enticing offers with Coupon Codes

Running promotions is a proven way to drive traffic and boost sales. With Local Line’s Coupon Codes, you can create enticing offers that attract new customers and reward loyal ones. From the Coupons Table, you can easily view all active coupons, edit settings, and define rules, such as:

• Limiting codes to specific price lists.
• Setting a minimum order value for coupon eligibility.
• Adding start and end dates for seasonal promotions.
• Soon, limit coupon codes to certain products

👉 Check out our video playlist showing how to set up different coupon types inside Local Line.

Ideas for using coupon codes effectively for your store:

• Seasonal Sale: “Get 15% off everything for the next 48 hours!”
• Referral Program: “Invite a friend, and you both get $15 off your next order.”
• CSA Renewals: “Renew your CSA subscription now and save $50.”
• First-Time Purchase: “Sign up for our newsletter and get 10% off your first order.”

👉 Need more inspiration for offers? Check out our workshop with Corinna Bench, My Digital Farmer: Crafting Offers to Boost Farm Sales. She shares tons of offer ideas to apply to your marketing.

Running targeted offers not only drives immediate sales but also strengthens customer loyalty over time.

6. Reduce admin work and delight customers with Box Swaps

Flexibility is one of the biggest drivers of CSA satisfaction—but traditionally, it comes at a cost. Every swap request means extra emails, notes, spreadsheets, and last-minute packing changes. What starts as a simple “Can I swap this?” can quickly snowball into hours of manual work.

Built directly into Local Line’s Box Builder, Box Swaps lets customers customize their boxes on their own, while keeping your operations clean, organized, and stress-free.

With Box Swaps, you can:

• Mark items as swappable when building a box
• Control the swap options (e.g. carrots instead of rutabaga)
• Update box contents week to week as inventory changes
• Automatically reflect all swaps in orders, pick lists, and pack sheets

No more tracking swaps through emails or customer notes. Everything stays in one place, and updates automatically.

Why Box Swaps is a game-changer for CSAs and box programs:

• More flexibility for customers: Not every household wants the same items. Swaps let customers feel ownership over their box, without creating extra work for you.
• Higher satisfaction and retention: Small choices go a long way. Customers who can tailor their box are more likely to stick with their CSA or subscription long-term.
• Less admin, fewer mistakes: All swaps flow directly into your exports and reports, so your packing team always knows exactly what to prepare.

Box Swaps also works seamlessly with subscriptions. Customers can make swaps before each order is finalized, and their preferences carry forward automatically, saving time for both sides week after week.

Make 2026 your best sales year yet.

With these 6 storefront hacks—abandoned cart emails, Google Analytics tracking, clear navigation, product bundles, coupon codes, and box swaps—you have all the tools you need to maximize sales, improve customer experience, and build lasting relationships.

Ready to put these tips into action? Create your account and get started with Local Line today!