@tschumilas I think we need to think about the two use cases very differently. In the UK CSA term is used loosely, there is no formal definition. Most people that started as pure CSAs moved into ‘food box schemes’ as they bowed to customer pressure. In future I will try to only use the term CSA for pure CSAs to avoid confusion.
My feeling is that since a pure CSA is a much simpler problem that can be solved very effectively with a google form and a DD mandate OFN won’t really add much value to them.
The value comes when the CSA wants to do more complex things like allowing people to change their order from week to week - which moves it toward a subscription service rather than a pure CSA.
Wondering if there is a better thread to add sub improvements to? I know there is this one:
but all the changes in the above will require significant work.
In the meantime there are a number of smaller (?) tweaks(?) which might make subs easier for hubs to use:
Allow customers to modify orders while OC is still open by being able to ADD to their product list as well as remove items. This will means that customers can top up their weekly shopping but the hub is not penalised by Stripe/Paypal by incurring the fixed transaction fee twice
Allow hubs to be able to edit the schedule a subscription is attached to. Other details can be changed, but this can’t. It would mean if a customer decides they want their order bi monthly rather than monthly then the hub can just ca
Allow customers to pause their subscription using a ‘from date’ to ‘to date’ of no more that one month i.e. not open ended as this will need admin monitoring.