Grower Management

Finding Grower Management

On your admin page, open the 🌾 Grower Management section. The header shows how many growers are currently active, and the section holds everything on this page: the grower table, per-grower product controls, balance tools, the Email Your Growers form, and the Add Grower button.

Email Your Growers

The Email Your Growers button at the bottom of the Grower Management section sends one message to every active grower in your market. Use it for deadline reminders, weather calls, market-day changes, policy updates — anything the whole crew needs to hear. Write a subject and a message, and it goes out to your whole grower list at once.

• Reaches growers only. Customers and volunteers have their own tools — the weblog/newsletter for shoppers and subscribers, and the volunteer tools in Volunteer Management.
• Growers can email each other too. Each grower has their own Email Other Growers tool for coordinating with fellow growers — harvest logistics, pickup-day plans. Yours is the megaphone; theirs is grower-to-grower.

The Grower Table

Active growers are listed with their active product count and current balance, with action buttons on each row. This is your at-a-glance view of who's participating and who might need a nudge — a grower whose product count has dropped to zero mid-season is often worth a friendly check-in.

Product Controls: Vacation Mode, Deactivate, Reactivate

Sometimes a grower can't tend their listings — a family emergency, a vacation, a sold-out week. Each grower's row offers controls for those moments (which buttons you see depends on the grower's current state):

• Vacation Mode marks all of that grower's products as unavailable to purchase, while remembering their quantities. The grower gets a Vacation Mode badge in the table until you — or they, from their own grower page — turn it off.
• Deactivate All goes further: it zeroes out the available quantities of all their products and marks them unavailable. Use this for longer absences or departures where stale quantities shouldn't linger. One thing to know: since quantities are cleared, there's no one-click undo — when the grower returns, they'll enter fresh quantities themselves.
• Exit Vacation Mode appears while a grower is on vacation — it brings back every product that still has quantity available. When a grower isn't on vacation but has unavailable products with quantities set, you'll see Reactivate Products instead (labeled with the count, like “Reactivate 12 Products”), which does the same thing.

Grower Balances

Each row also carries balance tools: Adjust Balance applies a credit or debit to the grower's account — enter a positive amount when the market owes the grower, negative when the grower owes the market — and Zero Out Balance clears it — typically after settling up outside the platform. For the full picture of how money moves between your market and your growers, see Financial Management.

Adding New Growers

The Add Grower button creates a new grower in your market. The complete flow — applications, approvals, reactivating a returning grower, and the common bumps along the way — lives in the Grower Onboarding guide.

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