Connect Glossary

Market: A market is the individual LFM food hub that a producer is selling through. A market can have multiple locations and distribution days. A producer can sell through multiple LFM markets and can use Local Food Connect to manage their products for all markets in one place. See Add a Market and In Person Markets.

User: A user is an individual who has login access to Local Food Connect.  A user can have access to multiple producer accounts in multiple LFM markets if they are all setup with the same email address.

Admin: An admin is the individual(s) at the market(s) you are selling through who have access to to the main LFM account. Admins can manage all aspects of your producer account and your product availability through their LFM admin login.

Harvest Day: A Harvest Day is the day designated for harvesting the the products you have sold. A single Harvest Day can include sales from multiple aggregation and distribution days. Defining a Harvest Day in Local Food Connect allows you to create aggregated harvest lists that include products and quantities you need to harvest for all of your sales. For more information see Changing Harvest Days. 

Aggregation Day: An aggregation day is the day that an LFM market expects you to deliver the product that you sold.  

Dashboard: The dashboard is the display shown when you first log into your Local Food Connect account or if you click the "home" button in the side menu. This page displays some basic sales data and provides a list of products that have low availability (less than 5 units remaining).

Distribution Day: The Distribution Day is the day that your LFM market will be distributing your products to their customers, either via delivery or at a pickup location.

Pick List: A Pick List is the report that shows all of the items sold for a specific period or sub-period for a single LFM market. Think of this as the list of everything you need to “pick” and provide to that LFM market on the assigned aggregation day.

Period: A period is a defined, usually 7-day, block of time that represents how your LFM market chronologically structures their market. LFM markets that utilize more than one distribution day per week (or other block of time) will have this period broken down into sub-periods.

Sub-Period: For LFM markets that have multiple distribution days for each period, a sub-period represents a specific distribution day during that period. For example, a market delivering on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday will have a specific sub-period for each of those days. Sub-periods may have unique ordering windows and often will have unique aggregation days as well.