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Local Line is food hub software for multi-vendor inventory, order aggregation, vendor payouts, and grant-ready reporting. Built for regional aggregators, community hubs, and institutional suppliers.
Food hubs coast-to-coast trust Local Line to power their operations
Between coordinating dozens of suppliers, routing multi-farm orders, keeping buyers satisfied, and producing the reporting your funders expect, you’re running one of the most complex operations in the local food system. You deserve software that was actually built for it.
Chasing availability updates, sending order changes to 40 suppliers, and manually reconciling payouts every week. Local Line gives every vendor their own portal.
Grant funders need clean, exportable data on local spend, vendor participation, and regional impact. Without it, you’re leaving money on the table.
Building pack lists by hand, managing routes across multiple delivery zones, and tracking order status across the supply chain shouldn’t require a full-time admin.
Whether you’re a regional aggregator, a community food hub, or a multi-vendor operation. Local Line handles the complexity of your specific model.
“I’m emailing 35 farms for availability updates, building pack lists in a spreadsheet, and reconciling vendor payments manually. There has to be a better way.”
“We were one of only two distributors that got funding from our state because we could do the metrics and the reporting. We wouldn’t be in this position without Local Line.”
Anne, Region Roots
“We knew the demand was there. People wanted to support local, but there was no easy way to do it without overwhelming ourselves or our producers.”
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"It's made a very big difference for our revenue, but mostly it presents the largest opportunity for small farmers in northern Ontario in a long time."
Mike Degagne, The Commons Markers Co-op
“Our institutional buyers need compliance documentation, lot traceability, and invoice terms we can’t produce manually. One audit could shut us down.”
“Our inventory changes daily, we sell to walk-in customers AND wholesale accounts, and we’re managing subscriptions on top of all of it. It’s impossible to keep track.”
Most food hubs sell to three or four buyer segments simultaneously. Local Line manages all of them from a single vendor inventory.
Create custom price lists for each wholesale buyer type. One vendor inventory, every account gets the right products, pricing, and payment terms automatically.
Meet institutional compliance requirements with traceability reporting, food safety documentation, and the invoice formats large buyers require.
Let members manage their own subscriptions, pause, swap, or skip online. Every change updates vendor inventory in real time. No inbox management required.
Accept in-person sales through the built-in POS. Every transaction deducts from the same vendor inventory your wholesale and subscription buyers are shopping from.
Built for the realities of food hub operations, not repackaged from a generic e-commerce platform.
Each supplier gets their own portal to manage inventory, view orders, and confirm fulfillment. You stay in control. They stay in the loop.
50+ customizable reports with grant-ready data exports. Track local spend, vendor participation, and regional impact by buyer segment.
ACH, credit card, net-30, net-60, installments. Set different terms per price list and per buyer segment.
Local Line routes each order to the right suppliers, generates pick and pack lists, and tracks fulfillment end-to-end. No spreadsheet handoffs.
Set delivery zones by zip code or route. Generate manifests automatically. Reduce drive time across your distribution area.
Sync vendor inventory across wholesale, retail, subscription, and institutional channels simultaneously. Unlimited price lists so every buyer sees exactly what they should.
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If you’ve outgrown your current software, Local Line’s migration team moves your vendors, buyers, and pricing for you. No disruption to your operation.
“Before I would wake up in the middle of the night worrying. Now I can sleep peacefully knowing everything is under control.”
Ana, Mali PLac Food Hub
Our team understands multi-vendor logistics, grant reporting requirements, and why your order cutoffs need to flex during peak season. You get dedicated onboarding, real humans available 7 days a week, and a team that treats your feature requests like they actually matter.
“Local Line's rapid response time and constant feature improvements have been a key point of loyalty for us.”
Anne, Region Roots
A real person migrates your vendors, buyers, and pricing. We also onboard your vendor suppliers at no extra cost.
Our team understands multi-vendor coordination, grant reporting requirements, and complex fulfillment logic. No explaining from scratch.
Feature requests from food hub operators go directly to the product team, and they actually ship them.
Vendors, buyers, pricing, order history. Our team migrates everything from any other platform at no extra cost.
“We were one of only two distributors that got funding from our state to do this, and that was because we could do the metrics and the reporting of these sales. We wouldn’t be in this position to access that funding without Local Line and its reporting capabilities.”
“With Local Line, we can handle complex logistics effortlessly. The system does most of the work, and we only need one employee to assist with basic admin work.”
“One of the reasons we went with Local Line is the flexibility of having so many different catalogs. We manage retail, wholesale, and institutional buyers all from the same system.”
“We knew the demand was there. People wanted to support local, but there was no easy way to do it. Local Line made it possible without overwhelming our team or our producers.”
Local Line pricing starts at $109 per month for Core, $199 for Premium, and $399 for Ultimate, with annual billing saving 20%. Ultimate supports 50 vendors and 10 price lists, which is what most multi-vendor hubs need, and extra vendors beyond your plan limit are $5 per month each. There are no commissions, setup fees, or migration costs.
Local Line is used by regional aggregators coordinating dozens of farm vendors, community food hubs connecting local producers to community buyers, institutional supply hubs serving schools, hospitals, and food service, and hybrid hubs running retail, wholesale, and subscriptions from one inventory. More than 500 food hubs run on Local Line today.
Local Line is built for multi-vendor operations specifically: vendor portals, segmented wholesale and retail price lists, automated purchase orders, and one-click vendor payouts on a flat monthly fee with no commissions. Open Food Network tends to suit hubs with complex or nonstandard inventory units. Local Food Marketplace suits hubs that want built-in marketing integrations. For a fuller breakdown, see our guide to the best food hub software.
Most hubs are up and running within a few weeks. Our migration team moves your vendors, buyers, product listings, pricing, order history, and delivery zones from any other platform, and we can also help onboard your vendor suppliers. There is no migration fee and no setup fee.
Local Line tracks sales by vendor automatically and lets you pay every vendor in one click, replacing the manual cycle of splitting orders and reconciling payments by hand. Vendor payouts are charged at 0.6% on Core, 0.5% on Premium, and 0.4% on Ultimate. There are no commissions on top.
Yes. Food hubs can onboard and manage multiple farms and suppliers through a single platform. Food hub managers can choose between managing vendor inventory as the hub or have the vendor control their own inventory. The hub keeps oversight of customer orders, logistics, and reporting.
Yes. When a buyer places an order containing products from several producers, Local Line generates the purchase order for each vendor automatically, produces pick and pack lists for fulfillment, and tracks status end to end. The buyer sees one storefront and one order. Each vendor sees only their own portion.
Local Line includes 50+ built-in reports and dashboards covering sales, products, customers, vendors, and fulfillment, exportable to XLS, CSV, PDF, and PNG, with connections to QuickBooks, Google Sheets, and Excel. For grant reporting the cuts that matter are sales by vendor, showing dollars reaching each producer, sales by price list, splitting revenue by buyer type across schools, wholesale, retail, and direct-to-consumer, sales over time against a baseline period, order and transaction counts, new versus returning customers, and active vendor and product counts. Together these answer what most funders ask: how much money reached local producers, how many producers you served, which market channels you opened, and how the program grew from where it started.
Yes. Hubs run CSA shares, boxes, and standing orders drawing from multiple vendors' inventory, with members managing their own subscriptions to pause, swap, or skip online. Every change updates vendor inventory in real time. Subscriptions are included on Premium and Ultimate.
Yes. Local Line has a native point of sale for in-hub retail and walk-in sales, though most hubs use the Square integration. Either way, every in-person transaction deducts from the same vendor inventory your wholesale, subscription, and online buyers are shopping from, so stock stays accurate across channels.
Yes. Local Line gives each wholesale buyer their own ordering portal with a price list showing only the products, pricing, and minimum orders that apply to them, all drawing from the same vendor inventory. You can set net-30 or net-60 payment terms per account, automate invoicing and payment reminders, and run unlimited price lists so restaurants, grocers, schools, and distributors each see the right catalog. For institutional buyers, Local Line provides lot-level traceability, food safety documentation, and compliance-ready export formats.
Local Line is available in the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and select other European countries. The platform supports English, French, Spanish, Polish, German, Czech, and Slovenian, with more languages planned. If you're outside our service areas, join the waitlist and we'll notify you when Local Line becomes available in your country.
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