Anybody familiar with Barn2door?

[rachelshenk]

Yep! Just replied to brute23 with more specifics but our farm was our sole income beginning in 2020. Half our revenue is thru B2D and the other half thru in person sales locally. My husband manages the day to day on the farm, repairs, maintenance, putting out all the "fires". And I do the sales and marketing along with 2 part time employees that help pack orders, organize inventory and in person sales.

Forgot to say we also sell weaned piglets to other NC farmers doing pastured pork, maybe 150 a year.

 

[Brute 23]

That's awesome. I'm sure there will be a lot of questions headed your way from others on how to make it all work.

 

[rachelshenk]

That's awesome. I'm sure there will be a lot of questions headed your way from others on how to make it all work.

We know everyone’s context, climate, season of life, goals, etc are different but happy to share our story in hopes that it may help farmers getting into direct to consumer sales

 

[rachelshenk]

It might help if you went to your profile and added a location. (in Account details) We've had a few issues in the past on these fora with people promoting things that sound too good to be true.

Added more info along with our website! We are in eastern NC in Newport. Our website is Shenk family farm.com.

 

[Travlr]

Added more info along with our website! We are in eastern NC in Newport. Our website is Shenk family farm.com.

Sounds like you are doing "The Biggest Little Farm" kind of business model.

 

[Spot & Bubby]

They seem legit posters. Maybe we shouldn't be so paranoid.

I'm taking my foil hat off to say this with all due respect: Aware and Paranoid are not the same thing.

No one with the slightest awareness that scams, spam and schemes exist would find fault with anyone finding these three members' posts on this thread suspicious. Especially considering the sign updates and 100% lack of engagement elsewhere on the site. I can't find a perspective to look at this from that makes it not look suss.

That's unfortunate for legit new members who get the short end of the stick in this. To that, all I can say is that I hope they ARE legit. I hope they engage with the board, sharing their cattle experience, starting threads, contributing to the collective wisdom and weirdness of the rest of our membership. I see @rachelshenk starting to engage and that's fantastic! I look forward to more of that!

 AND I stand by my previous comment... A testimonial means more to us (if I may speak for the suspicious collective) if we know and interact with the one giving it. And that happens in the threads.

 

[Kikipuente]

I wanted to chime in here. We've been using Barn2Door for the last 5 years. We love it. They built our website, manage our meat subscriptions, and have a really great staff that's always ready to help should problems arise.

I couldn't find any other software that was built like this, for farmers. I needed to use something that would help me with home deliveries, online sales, an online store, subscriptions and organized order sheets. They do all of this and they also offer classes and an exclusive community for farmers trying to sell direct-to-consumer.

They also do a bunch of research to find out what consumers are looking for when buying from a local farm. It's hard to find everything that Barn2Door is in one place. Usually, you have to slap a bunch of different programs together to make this work. Thanks to B2D, I don't have to do that. It's all in one place for me. I can track my sales, manage my inventory, and build Bundles/Subscriptions all on one platform.

For us, Barn2Door is the best option out there. Of course, there are tons of other "cheaper" options, but that's not what we're after. We care about our products and our brand looking and functioning as best as possible. And we've only found that that is possible with Barn2Door.

Can you please provide your website that they created for you？I'm kind interesting and want to see how the website is done，if it does looking good，i May say yes to them.they will call me next Monday.if you can't...then are you one of the insider of barn2door？