The short version: Farmigo charges 2% of delivery revenue with a $150 a month minimum, and only in months you are actually delivering. No setup fee, no per-member charges, no annual contract. CSAware publishes no pricing at all: its site routes everything through "Request a Demo" and a phone number. Both are built for CSAs, herdshares, and food hubs rather than for a single vendor selling cookies. The $150 minimum is the number that decides Farmigo: it means the effective floor is $1,800 a year, and the 2% only exceeds that once you are delivering more than $7,500 a month.
Farmigo's figures came off its own pricing page in July 2026. CSAware's are absent by design, which is itself the finding.
Both are CSA management systems with long histories, and they position almost identically.
Farmigo describes itself as farm management software for CSAs, herdshares, and food hubs, built with farmers since 2009. Its pricing page is unusually direct: one model, one number, and a list of things that are never included.
CSAware has been building for CSAs and food hubs since 2010, is owned by LocalHarvest rather than by venture investors, and emphasizes being white-label by default with your data downloadable at any time. Its feature list is deep: BoxBot for auto-customized boxes, wholesale management with purchase orders and ACH, delivery scheduling with route planning and printed labels, and online EBT and SNAP acceptance.
The difference that matters to a buyer:
Both are CSA-first tools, so the real fork is between percentage pricing you can read today and quote pricing you learn on a call. Our Farmigo pricing breakdown works the 2% and the $150 minimum through a real season.
Same four disclosures on both. Where a figure is not published, this says so rather than guessing.
| Farmigo | CSAware | |
|---|---|---|
| Subscription | 2% of delivery revenue, $150/month minimum, charged only in months you deliver | Not published. Demo required |
| Free trial | Not published | Not published |
| Platform fee | The 2% is the fee. No setup fee, no per-member or per-seat charges, no annual contract | Not published |
| Card processing | Not published, though Farmigo states there are no hidden processing markups | Not published. Accepts card, eCheck, PayPal, paper check, and online EBT/SNAP |
Farmigo also states plainly what is never included: per-member or per-seat fees, annual contracts, charges in your off-season, and hidden processing markups. That is a short list of the exact things farms complain about in this category, and putting it in writing is worth something.
It means the price is $150 a month until you are big, and then it is 2%.
The crossover is simple arithmetic: 2% of $7,500 is $150. So:
Worked at three volumes, in delivery months:
For a CSA delivering eight months a year at $5,000 a month, that is $1,200 a year. At twelve months it is $1,800. The seasonal exemption is genuinely valuable here: a farm that delivers May through October pays for six months, not twelve, which is a real difference from any flat annual subscription.
It is a normal enterprise motion and it carries specific costs for a buyer.
None of that means avoid CSAware. It means budget for the call and go in with your numbers ready, because the person on the other end has had this conversation hundreds of times and you have had it twice.
Since there is no published price, the demo is your only evaluation. Ask in this order.
Question three is the one people leave until last and should ask first. On a CSA doing $50,000 a year in card payments, a one-point difference in processing is $500, which is likely larger than any negotiation you will win on the subscription.
Our fuller look at Farmigo for small CSA programs covers where it fits.
The seasonal clause is the quiet winner here. An operation that delivers eight months a year pays Farmigo nothing for the other four, and pays a flat-fee competitor for twelve.
That EBT and SNAP point deserves emphasis. A CSA that wants to serve lower-income members needs it, and most farm platforms do not offer it. If that describes your program, it may settle the decision regardless of price. Our look at CSAware for small farms covers the product in more detail.
Probably not, and it is worth saying plainly before anyone books a demo they do not need.
Farmigo's $150 monthly minimum means a floor of $1,200 to $1,800 a year depending on your season length. For a CSA with sixty members doing $40,000 a year, that is 3% to 4.5% of revenue, which is reasonable for software that runs your whole membership. For a vendor selling bread at a market, it is an enormous number for a problem they do not have.
The distinction is not size, it is shape. These platforms manage recurring memberships: sign-ups, holds, skips, box customization, drop sites, and balances. If you do not have members, none of that machinery does anything for you.
USDA's 2022 Census of Agriculture describes a direct-marketing sector dominated by small operations selling at markets and farm stands rather than by subscription programs. Most farms in that picture need an ordering link, not a membership system.
For that shape of operation, 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, local delivery with a radius and a route, and sales tax calculated, filed, and remitted in all 50 states. The honest bound is direct: it does not do subscriptions or CSA boxes, which is exactly what both platforms on this page are for. If you run a CSA, neither Homegrown nor any general storefront is a substitute, and you should be talking to Farmigo or CSAware rather than reading about cheaper tools. If you are not sure whether you have a CSA or just regular customers, you can test a straightforward storefront in a week and find out.
That last one is worth more attention than either platform's fee. A CSA with 60 members that raises share prices by $25 has found $1,500 a season, which is more than Farmigo's entire minimum across a six-month delivery window. Software costs are a real line and they are almost never the largest lever available to a CSA. Member retention is the other one: keeping five members who would otherwise have lapsed is worth more than any subscription decision on this page. If your evaluation of these two platforms is taking longer than your last conversation about share pricing, the priorities are inverted.
Since one of these requires a call and the other does not, run them in a deliberate order.
If you work through that and conclude you do not actually run a membership program, that is a useful outcome too. You can put your products on a straightforward storefront in a week and see whether recurring boxes were ever the thing you needed. Our comparison of e-commerce platforms for farmers covers the wider field for operations that are not CSAs.
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 or per-seat charges, and no annual contract. Volume discounts are offered as your monthly delivery volume grows.
Not published. Its site routes to "Request a Demo" and a phone number, so you will need a call to get a number. Ask specifically about setup fees, minimums, contract terms, and the payment processing rate.
It is the price until you deliver more than $7,500 a month, since 2% of $7,500 is exactly $150. Below that you pay $150 regardless, so 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 or eight months a year, that is a meaningful saving against any flat annual subscription.
CSAware, based on published features. It lists online EBT and SNAP acceptance alongside card, eCheck, PayPal, and paper check. That is uncommon in this category and it may be decisive if serving lower-income members is part of your program.
CSAware advertises wholesale management with approved buyers, purchase orders, buyer terms, availability, invoices, balances, and ACH payments. If you run wholesale alongside your CSA, that is a substantial capability to weigh against Farmigo's published simplicity.
Run the arithmetic first. At 30 members paying $600 a season, that is $18,000, and Farmigo's minimum across a six-month delivery season is $900, or 5% of revenue. Whether that is worth it depends entirely on how many hours the software saves you, which is a real question and not a rhetorical one.
Farmigo gives you a number you can model: 2% of delivery revenue, $150 a month minimum, nothing in the off-season, no setup fee, no contract. That transparency is worth real money in a category where most competitors make you book a call.
CSAware gives you depth instead: BoxBot customization, wholesale management, route planning, and online EBT and SNAP, which almost nothing else in this category offers. You will have to ask what it costs, and you should ask about the processing rate before anything else.
Both are membership systems. If you run a CSA, one of them is probably right and the choice comes down to EBT and wholesale on one side against published pricing on the other. If you do not run a CSA, you are looking at $1,200 a year and up for machinery built to manage members you do not have, and a simpler ordering tool will serve you better for a fraction of it.
