Foodsoft is web-based software designed to help non-profit food cooperatives organise their day-to-day activities. A food cooperative enables a group of people to purchase food collectively from suppliers they choose, often with members contributing some of the work needed to keep the organisation running.
The software brings many of the administrative tasks involved in operating a food cooperative into a single system. Members can browse available products and place orders online, while administrators can maintain supplier and product information, coordinate collective orders and oversee their distribution.
Foodsoft also provides facilities for managing members and workgroups. Access controls allow different responsibilities to be assigned to different users, while job scheduling helps coordinate the work contributed by members. Communication tools provide another way for cooperatives to keep their membership informed.
Financial functionality covers areas including invoices, transactions and accounting. Foodsoft can also integrate online payment processing and offers tools for tracking stock and managing deliveries. Its focus is specifically on the workflows used by food cooperatives rather than acting as a general-purpose online shop.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Manage products, suppliers and product catalogues.
- Coordinate collective orders from cooperative members.
- Track inventory and received goods.
- Manage members, order groups and workgroups.
- Schedule jobs and coordinate member participation.
- Handle invoices, transactions and accounting.
- Integrate online payment processing.
- Manage deliveries and distribution.
- Provide role-based access controls.
- Communicate with cooperative members.
- Supports multiple languages.
- Self-hosted web-based application.
Website: github.com/foodcoops/foodsoft
Support:
Developer: Foodsoft community
License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
Foodsoft is written in Ruby. Learn Ruby with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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