The short version: Farmigo charges 2% of delivery revenue with a $150 a month minimum, and only in months you are actually delivering. There is no setup fee, no per-member or per-seat charge, no annual contract, and nothing billed in your off-season. The 2% does not exceed the minimum until you deliver more than $7,500 a month, so for most small CSAs the real price is $150 a month, not 2%. What that means in practice: a six-month CSA pays $900 a season, and a farm delivering $3,000 a month is paying an effective 5% rather than the headline rate.
Figures came from Farmigo's own pricing page in July 2026.
One model, one number, and an unusually explicit list of things that are never charged.
| Farmigo | |
|---|---|
| Subscription | 2% of delivery revenue, $150/month minimum, charged only in months you are actively delivering. Volume discounts are offered as monthly delivery volume grows |
| Free trial | Not published |
| Platform fee | The 2% is the fee. No setup fee, no per-member or per-seat charges, no annual contract |
| Card processing | Not published as a separate rate, though Farmigo states there are no hidden processing markups |
That list of exclusions is worth reading twice. Per-member fees, annual contracts, off-season charges, and processing markups are the four things farms complain about most in this category, and Farmigo names all four as things it does not do.
The seasonal shape of that pricing is the real story, and the worked season below shows where the $150 minimum bites. For how it stacks against the flat-fee and commission models, our Farmigo alternative guide covers the field.
Almost never for a small CSA, and this is the most important thing on the page.
The crossover is straightforward: 2% of $7,500 is exactly $150. So:
Worked as an effective rate, in delivery months:
So the honest description of Farmigo's pricing for a small CSA is not "2%." It is "$150 a month until you are reasonably large, then 2%." Both are true, and only one of them is what you will actually pay.
Because Farmigo only bills in delivery months, the season length matters as much as the revenue.
At the $150 minimum:
Now put that against membership size. A CSA with 60 members paying $600 a share over a six-month season is $36,000 in revenue, and $900 of software is 2.5% of revenue, or $15 per member per season.
The same $900 across 120 members is $7.50 per member. Across 30 members it is $30 per member, and 5% of a $18,000 season.
Which gives you the real rule: Farmigo's cost per member halves every time your membership doubles, because the minimum is fixed. Small CSAs pay the most per member and large ones pay very little. That is the opposite of per-member pricing, which is exactly the model Farmigo is positioned against.
Yes, and it is the most underrated part of this pricing.
Most farm software charges a flat monthly or annual subscription that runs whether or not you are delivering. Farmigo bills only in delivery months, which for a seasonal CSA is a genuine structural advantage rather than a marketing line.
A farm delivering May through October pays for six months. A competitor charging $150 a month year-round would take $1,800 for the same season's work. That is a $900 difference, and it goes straight to the farm.
Two things to confirm before relying on it:
Question two matters more than it sounds. CSA renewal season often runs in the off-season, and software you cannot log into in February is not much use when members are signing up for May.
There is a third question worth asking that nobody thinks of until it happens: what if you deliver every other week? Plenty of CSAs run a biweekly share, or a full share and a half share on alternating weeks. If billing is keyed to calendar months, a farm delivering twice a month pays the same $150 as one delivering four times, which halves the value it is getting from the minimum. That is not a flaw so much as something to price into your comparison, and it moves the effective rate meaningfully for a biweekly program.
Two things, and one of them is significant.
Payment processing. Farmigo states there are no hidden processing markups, which is a useful thing to say, but it does not publish a rate. At CSA scale that number matters: a farm processing $36,000 a season through cards at 2.9% plus 30¢ is paying roughly $1,100 in processing, more than the entire software subscription. Ask what the rate is and who the processor is before you sign anything.
The volume discount schedule. Farmigo says discounts are offered as monthly delivery volume grows, without stating the thresholds. If you are approaching or past $7,500 a month, that is worth asking about specifically, since it is the point where 2% starts to become a real number.
Neither omission is unusual. Both are worth two minutes on a call, and getting an answer in writing costs you nothing.
Worth stepping back on, because the model matters as much as the number.
A CSA's revenue is unusually predictable. Members commit to a season up front, the share price is set before you plant, and you know in March roughly what June will bring. That is the opposite of a retail business, where percentage pricing exists partly to absorb the risk of a bad month.
So a percentage on predictable revenue is doing less work for you than it would elsewhere. What you gain is that a smaller season costs less, and with the $150 floor you only gain that below a certain point anyway. What you lose is that a good year costs more, and above $7,500 a month it costs proportionally more forever.
A farm delivering $12,000 a month for six months pays 2% of $72,000, which is $1,440 a season. A flat $150-a-month competitor would charge $900 for the same period. At that scale the percentage is the expensive model, and the off-season exemption no longer compensates.
Which gives a rough shape for where Farmigo's pricing is at its best: a seasonal CSA delivering somewhere between $3,000 and $7,500 a month. Smaller and the minimum bites; larger and the percentage does. That middle band is a large share of real CSAs, so this is a description of a well-targeted price rather than a criticism of it.
If you are not certain which band you are in, work out your delivery revenue per month from last season rather than estimating, and if you have never separated share revenue from add-on revenue, running one season through a storefront that itemises both will give you a number you can actually negotiate with.
Six questions, in the order that resolves the most uncertainty.
Question two is worth pressing on. "Delivery revenue" is doing a lot of work in a percentage model, and the difference between 2% of share revenue and 2% of everything you sell can be meaningful once you add flowers, eggs, or a bread share from a partner. Our guide to adding a partner vendor to your CSA covers the operational side of that, and the billing definition should be settled at the same time.
Against the other CSA-specific platforms, Farmigo's transparency is the differentiator as much as the price.
Against a $129-a-month annual plan, Farmigo's $150 looks more expensive per month and is often cheaper per season, because $129 × 12 is $1,548 and Farmigo's six-month season is $900. Season length is the variable that decides it, and monthly headline prices hide that completely.
USDA's Economic Research Service work on food markets and prices is useful background on where direct-to-consumer sales sit in the wider picture, which is worth a look before assuming your CSA should be growing at any particular rate.
Depends what you mean by small, and the honest answer for the smallest operations is no.
A 60-member CSA at $900 a season is paying 2.5% of revenue for software that runs sign-ups, holds, skips, box contents, drop sites, and balances. That is a reasonable price for genuinely reducing administrative work.
A 20-member CSA at $900 a season on maybe $12,000 of revenue is paying 7.5%, which is a lot. At that size a spreadsheet and a payment link may genuinely be the right answer for another year.
A vendor with no members at all should not be looking at this category. Farmigo, CSAware, and Local Food Marketplace all exist to manage recurring memberships: sign-ups, holds, skips, customisation, drop sites, and balances. If you do not have members, none of that machinery does anything for you, and the $150 minimum is the price of running software for a problem you do not have.
For that shape, Homegrown is $10 a month billed annually with 0% commission and 2.9% plus $0.30 processing published up front, and it handles pickup at each place you sell with its own schedule and cutoff, local delivery with a radius and a route, and sales tax calculated, filed, and remitted in all 50 states. The honest bound is blunt: it does not do CSA subscriptions or recurring boxes, which is precisely what Farmigo is for. If you run a CSA, this is not a substitute and Farmigo is the right conversation. If you are not sure whether you have a CSA or just regular customers who order every week, you can run a season's worth of orders through a straightforward storefront and find out which one you actually are.
Worth knowing too: if serving lower-income members matters to your program, SNAP acceptance is a real differentiator in this category and Farmigo's published materials do not mention it. USDA's guidance on SNAP at farmers markets covers what is involved, and it is worth asking every platform on your shortlist directly.
2% of delivery revenue with a $150 a month minimum, charged only in months you are actively delivering. There is no setup fee, no per-member charge, and no annual contract. Volume discounts are offered as monthly delivery volume grows.
It means the price is $150 until you deliver more than $7,500 a month, since 2% of $7,500 is exactly $150. Below that, your effective rate is higher than 2%: 5% at $3,000 a month, 3% at $5,000.
No. It states it charges only during months you are actively delivering. For a farm delivering six months a year, that saves $900 against a flat $150-a-month subscription running all twelve.
At the minimum, $600 for a four-month season, $900 for six months, $1,200 for eight, and $1,800 year-round. Whether that is expensive depends on membership: $900 across 60 members is $15 per member per season.
No. It states there are no hidden processing markups but does not name a rate. At CSA scale, processing is likely larger than the subscription, so ask for the figure and the processor before signing.
The thresholds are not published, only that discounts are offered as monthly delivery volume grows. If you are near or above $7,500 a month, ask specifically, since that is where the 2% starts to exceed the minimum.
Probably not on price alone. $900 a season on roughly $12,000 of revenue is 7.5%, which is steep. The question is how many hours it saves you, and at 20 members the honest answer is often not enough.
Farmigo's pricing is genuinely transparent in a category where most competitors want a call first, and the four things it says it never charges are the four things farms most often get charged for.
But read the minimum, not the percentage. For any CSA delivering under $7,500 a month, which is most of them, the price is $150 a month, not 2%. That is $900 for a six-month season, and your effective rate is 3% to 10% depending on size.
The off-season exemption is the part worth real money: $900 saved against a year-round subscription, going straight to the farm. Before you commit, get two things in writing that are not on the page: the payment processing rate, and exactly what counts as "delivery revenue."
