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The best alternative to Shopify for Food Suppliers

See why food businesses on Freshline save hundreds of hours and thousands in costs per year with built-in perishables features.

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Freshline's specialized features vs. Shopify

By specializing in perishables e-commerce, Freshline is the superior e-commerce alternative to Shopify for food suppliers. Once you examine the cost of third-party apps, long setup needed, and less than ideal workarounds for perishables, it's easy to see why food businesses choose Freshline.

Built for selling produce online

Set up your online ordering by variable weights, custom delivery zones, or complex fulfillment schedules.

Branded online store

Automate your ordering process through an online wholesale ordering platform. Selling to consumers? Build and launch an online store with zero code.

Streamlined fulfillment tools

Simplify your inventory management and automate picking and packing lists to save your team countless hours each month.

Freshline is simple and fast to set up and navigate.

Set up products, shipping, and payments in minutes without needing a web developer with a template store set up in minutes.

Setting up a Shopify store can be overly complex.

Requires significant technical setup and know-how before you can start selling. Often requires a developer to build out your store which can be extremely time consuming and costly.

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Freshline has built-in tools for food businesses.

No need to heavily rely on third-party apps to address core functionality needed for perishables. Access perishables-specific tools to help you run more efficiently.

Shopify requires multiple costly apps or custom development.

Users need to install multiple third-party apps with variable monthly fees, installation, support - all at a cost of poor user experience.

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Freshline can be used for variable weight items.

Easily accommodate for catch weight or edit orders without dealing with manual charges, refunds, or customer complaints.

Shopify has no support for variable weights.

Suppliers have no easy way to sell items by weight or edit orders - often forcing suppliers to overcharge or undercharge customers.

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Freshline is built for local commerce and fulfillment.

Create as many shipping, pickup, or local delivery locations with specific rules on cutoff times, service dates, or product availability.

Shopify doesn't have built-in support for local delivery or pickup.

Has no functionality to set up specific delivery or pickup areas. No method to create order cut offs, lead times, or specific delivery dates for specific zones or products.

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Freshline is simple and fast to navigate and use.

Set up products, shipping, and payments in minutes without needing a web developer with a template store set up in minutes.

Setting up a Shopify store can be overly complex.

Often requires technical setup and know-how before you can start selling. Often requires a developer to build out your store which can be extremely time consuming and costly.

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Freshline can be customized to fit your workflow.

Build and export the perfect picklist based on product, order, service zones, or customer attributes - ensuring it maps perfectly to the way you run your operations.

Shopify forces you to adjust to its system.

Has no functionality to build or export a custom pick list. Suppliers often need to tag individual items or export to Excel to organize their deliveries.

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How it works

Freshline supercharges front-office operations across all your food businesses.

Freshline triages incoming orders

1-click integration to your inventory management software.

Freshline is built for food distributors

Our team builds a custom ordering system for every business while scaling to all your locations fast.

Freshline centralizes the front-office

Monitor organization-wide analytics of order activity and scheduling efficiency.

Freshline logs and analyzes your orders

Uncover analytics like who orders what and why, review conversations and more.

Powerful capabilities

Freshline is every food distributor's dream.

Effortless Scheduling

Our proprietary scheduling engine is built to work with every business's unique preferences, making the ordering process seamless.

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Automates activities

Takes orders, manages inventory, sends confirmations and reminders to customers.

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Eliminates wait time

5 incoming orders? No problem, Freshline simultaneously handles 100+ requests.

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Performs deep tasks

Freshline can navigate internal systems to create/cancel orders, retrieve knowledge to answer specific questions and more.

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Communicates in multiple languages

Deliver a personalized experience to every customer with localized service.

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Deep integrations

Seamlessly connects with your inventory management, CRM, and other business systems.

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Still not convinced?

Here are some key questions you should ask prior to choosing your best alternative to Shopify for perishable food.

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