Farm Apps and Websites: Veg Boxes, Farm Shop and Visits, Built with AI

Mythex builds the software a farm that sells direct actually uses: a website with a 'what's in season' section, a veg box list that knows who is on holiday, a shop that hides produce once it sells out, and timed slots for pick-your-own weekends. You describe the farm in plain words, check it in a live preview and publish it with a real database behind it.

What a farm selling direct needs from software

The farm itself does not run on software. The selling does. Each week someone works out what is ready to pick, who has ordered a box, which restaurants want their usual order and which households are away. That usually lives on paper, in texts and in a notebook kept by the kitchen door. Then the season turns: strawberries bring families on Saturday mornings, autumn brings pumpkins, December brings turkeys and trees. Good software joins two lists that never meet on paper: what the fields and cold store hold, and who is waiting for it.

A weekly packing list built from box subscribers, minus pauses
Shop stock that changes with the harvest and hides at zero
Wholesale accounts with their usual order and weekly statements
Timed entry for pick-your-own on peak weekends
Seasonal pre-orders, such as turkeys, taken with a deposit
Delivery days grouped by area, not by who texted first

What you can build for farms

A farm website that says what is ready this week

Put a short seasonal panel on the home page that you update with a sentence and a photo: first asparagus, new potatoes, lambs in the barn. Show farm shop hours for summer and winter separately, list the towns or postcodes your veg boxes reach, and describe how you grow or rear things in plain terms without claiming certifications you do not hold.

Build a website for our mixed farm with a 'what's in season now' section I can update from an admin page, farm shop opening hours that differ in summer and winter, a veg box page listing the postcodes we deliver to, and an about page on how we farm.

Box subscribers with dislikes, pauses and drop-off notes

Each subscriber gets a box size, a delivery day, a list of things they will not eat with a swap rule, and pause dates for holidays. Wholesale customers sit in the same app with their usual order. Drop-off notes, such as 'leave behind the green bin', travel with the delivery list so a relief driver does not need to phone anyone.

Make a customer app for our veg box scheme. Store each subscriber's box size, delivery day, address, drop-off note, dislikes with swaps and holiday pause dates. Let subscribers log in to pause weeks. Produce a packing list for each delivery day that leaves out paused boxes.

A farm shop online that follows the harvest

List produce that changes week to week and let items disappear at zero stock. Sell meat boxes by weight band with the final price confirmed when you pack. Offer collection from the farm shop or delivery on fixed days only, and open Christmas turkey and tree pre-orders in autumn with a deposit so you know how many to raise or cut.

Build an online farm shop with weekly produce that hides when sold out, meat boxes sold by weight band with the price adjusted at packing, collection or delivery on Thursdays and Fridays, and Christmas turkey pre-orders with a deposit.

Timed slots for pick-your-own and school visits

On a sunny Saturday the fields can be stripped by eleven. Hourly entry slots spread the crowd and keep the gate queue short. School groups book with numbers of children and adults, tours carry a group cap, and when the weather turns you cancel a whole day at once and flag everyone for rebooking.

Create a booking system for our farm: hourly pick-your-own slots on weekends with a cap per slot, school visit bookings with child and adult numbers, and a button to cancel every booking on a date and mark them for rebooking.

Weekly statements for restaurants and shops

Record each wholesale delivery against the account and send one statement a week with clear terms. Add delivery charges by zone, credit notes for short or damaged produce, and a flag when an account runs past its limit so the next delivery waits until it is paid.

Build invoicing for our farm's wholesale customers. Log deliveries per restaurant, generate a weekly statement, add zone delivery charges, raise credit notes for short deliveries and warn me when an account is over its credit limit.

Which channel earns more per kilo

Split sales across the farm shop, boxes, wholesale and visits, then put margin next to revenue. Wholesale often moves the most produce at the lowest price. Add subscriber numbers by week, visitors against the weather, and a sold-versus-harvested view by crop to plan next year's planting.

Make a dashboard for our farm showing sales by channel (shop, veg boxes, wholesale, visits) with margin, box subscribers and cancellations per week, and harvested versus sold quantities by crop each month.

From the paper box round to an app

Start with the veg box list, because it is the job you redo every week. Enter current subscribers with their size, day and dislikes, and let the app print Thursday's packing list. Once that runs for a month, add the customer login for pauses, then the shop. Leave visitor booking until a few weeks before your first busy picking weekend, and switch timed slots on only for the dates you expect a rush.

Week 1: subscribers and packing list
Week 4: subscriber logins for holiday pauses
Before the season: shop stock and pick-your-own slots

Data you'll keep

Customer names, addresses and delivery notes are personal data, so ask for login on the admin side and keep subscriber pages private to each household. Record harvest and waste figures alongside sales if you can. A season of those numbers tells you which crops you over-plant, which should go to wholesale sooner, and what to grow more of for box customers next year.

Questions

Can veg box customers pause their box online?

Yes. Ask for a subscriber login where each household picks the weeks they are away. Paused boxes drop off that day's packing list automatically.

Can I take payment for boxes and pre-orders?

Yes, through a payment provider you connect with your own account. Mythex builds the checkout and the deposit step, and the money goes to your provider account.

Can I call my farm produce organic on the site?

Only if you are certified where certification is required. Organic is a regulated word in many places, so check your local rules; you can always describe what you actually do in plain words.

Do I need to code?

No. You describe what you want, such as 'hide strawberries when the count reaches zero', and Mythex builds it. You change it the same way, by chatting.

Is there a phone app for delivery drivers?

The published app opens in any phone browser, which is enough for a delivery list. On Pro you can also turn it into Android and iPhone apps that open your published app.

How much does it cost?

The Free plan needs no card and gives daily credits to build and publish a first version. Pro is $25/month for code editing, export, a custom domain and phone apps.

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