Editing Existing Products

All products in Connect can be managed via the Sell page. The Sell page displays the products you're selling in the LFM markets that you're participating in.

To edit a specific product, click on the product name in the Sell page:

In the product availability page you can edit the current quantity available of the product and adjust the price you receiving for it. Note that this is the price the market pays you, not the price the market charges to customers.

To edit other information about the product, click the pencil editor in the upper right corner of the page:

Product Management Page

1.  Harvest Unit

The harvest unit is what you and your crew use to quantify how much of a product to harvest when you need to fill orders. For example if you sell potatoes in 5lb bags, 20lb boxes and 800lb bins, you might harvest those in terms of "pounds", "bushels", "bins", or something else. The Harvest page will convert orders for all your different selling units of a product into a single quantity of Harvests Units needed to fill those orders.

2.  Tags

Tags allow you to filter your product list based on tags you assign to products. You can make up any tags you want, and they will need to be assigned to products one by one. You can then filter for all products with a given tag on the Harvest and Pack pages.

3.  Participating Markets

The participating markets section will display all of the markets you're selling in through your connect account - with the markets that the product is available in checked in this section.  The product will only be for sale in the markets you have checked here - to add the product to another market you're participating in, check the box next to the additional market.

4.  Product Images

Product Images are specific to each market; adding or changing an image for one market will not affect any other markets. Click the market name above the product image to check and edit the product image for that market.

5.  Product Information

Product Information is where you can edit the product details that affect how the product shows up on LFM market storefronts. These include Pricing Method (Product Type), Base Unit, Tagline, Description, Deposit, Attributes, and Subperiods. For an explanation of each of these fields see our Key Product Terms article.

6.  Unit Information

Unit Information allows you to edit the information for each individual selling unit. 

1. You can add new selling units by clicking the plus button.

2. For products priced by weight (Type B products) the weight entered here is multiplied by the unit price to get the total price. Enter an average weight here so that customers know what the approximate weight and price will be. Once selling units are sold you can edit the actual weights of each specific unit to get accurate weight based prices on the order. For products that are not priced by weight (Type A and Type C), you can still enter a weight here that will show up in product reports and may be of interest for determining total pounds of products sold and shipped.

3. The Unit Multiplier is used when listing Type A products. Multipliers describe how much of the base unit is used up by the selling unit. In the example above, the base unit for lettuce is "each" and a "24 ct case uses up 24 of those base units. The other selling unit, "head", uses up just one base unit. We would list a total number of base units available and customer orders for 24 ct cases and for heads draw down the availability accordingly.

4. UPC is just an optional informational field that market admins can choose to make visible on customer invoices. 

5. Sort Order determines the order in which the selling units appear under the product name on market storefront websites. If units have the same sort order they are then sorted alphabetically.

6. The Hide check box makes the selling unit not appear on the market storefront website for customers. You and your market admins can still see and use the selling unit.

7.  The Harvest Multiplier defines how many harvest units this selling unit requires. In the example above we harvest lettuce in totes that hold 96 heads, so a 24 ct case requires 0.25 of a harvest unit. On the Harvest page all of the sold units will be combined according to their Harvest Multiplier and combined into a total number of Harvest Units needed for the Harvest Day.