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$9 to $29/mo flat. $1 on standard orders, 2.5% on subscriptions and made-to-order.

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$108

per year

AcreTrail Starter

$832

per year

Local Line Core, annual

For a small weekly-delivery farm. About 87% less, year one.

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Both manage farm orders. They're aimed at very different operations. Here's an honest, side-by-side look at where each one fits best.

Last updated: May 1, 2026

The short version

Choose AcreTrail if

✓ You're a small or mid-size farm running weekly delivery routes or a herd share
✓ You want your customers to use a custom-branded mobile app, not a web storefront
✓ You want simple, low monthly cost ($9 to $59/mo) without paying for wholesale or food-hub features you'll never use
✓ You manage made-to-order or custom cuts alongside regular orders
✓ You want a 30-day free trial without scheduling a sales call

Choose Local Line if

✓ You sell wholesale to restaurants, grocers, or distributors and need per-buyer price lists
✓ You operate a multi-vendor food hub aggregating from several farms
✓ You run a CSA with customizable boxes and member swaps
✓ You're outside North America (Local Line operates in US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ)
✓ You need granular inventory with bundles, lot codes, and FSMA 204 traceability

At a glance

Where the two platforms overlap, where they don't.

Feature	AcreTrail	Local Line
Weekly delivery route management	✓	✓
Pickup location management	✓	✓
Online payments (Stripe)	✓ Included on all plans	✓ + ACH
Transaction fees	$1 flat on standard orders, 2.5% on subscriptions / made-to-order	No platform fee (card 2.5–2.9% + $0.30, ACH 1%)
Customer-facing branded mobile app	✓ Pro plan, App Store + Play Store	No, web-based responsive storefront
Herd share program management	✓	CSA / subscriptions only
Made-to-order / custom cuts queue	✓	Workaround
Customizable CSA boxes with swaps	No	✓ Premium plan+
Wholesale per-buyer price lists	No	✓ 2-10 lists by plan
Multi-vendor food hub (Hub 2.0)	No	✓
Lot codes / FSMA 204 traceability	No	✓ on roadmap
Broadcast messaging (SMS / push)	✓	Email only
Tipping	✓	Not advertised
Customer waitlist + admin approval	✓	Open signup
Free trial	✓ 30 days, no credit card	Demo / trial via sales call
Setup fee	None	None
International support	US only today	✓ US, CA, UK, IE, AU, NZ

Pricing

Both subscriptions, no setup fees, no annual contracts. Different tier ladders.

AcreTrail

Monthly subscription, no setup fee, no annual commitment.

Starter, up to 100 customers $9/mo
Standard, unlimited customers, custom domain $29/mo
Pro, branded App Store app, analytics $59/mo

Plus $1 flat per standard catalog order, 2.5% on herd share subscriptions and made-to-order purchases. Standard Stripe processing applies on top.

All plans include a free 30-day trial with no credit card. SMS overage at $0.02/msg above plan limits.

Local Line

Monthly or annual. Annual saves ~30% (current promo).

Core, 2 price lists, 5 vendors $69-99/mo
Premium, subscriptions, barcode scan $139-199/mo
Ultimate, 10 price lists, 50 vendors $279-399/mo

Lower price is annual, higher is month-to-month. Card processing 2.5%-2.9% + $0.30; ACH 1%. Confirm at localline.co/suppliers/pricing.

First-year cost example, small farm with weekly delivery: AcreTrail Starter runs $108/year ($9 × 12). Local Line Core at the annual rate runs $832/year. The gap reflects what you're getting for the difference: Local Line includes wholesale price lists, multi-vendor support, and complex inventory tooling. If you don't sell wholesale or run a food hub, you're paying for features that won't move your bottom line.

Where Local Line wins

We built AcreTrail for a specific kind of farm: small to mid-size, weekly delivery routes, customers who want a simple app on their phone. Local Line covers a much broader set of operations and does some things genuinely well that we don't.

→ Wholesale. Per-buyer price lists, case sizes, vendor payouts. If 30%+ of your revenue is restaurants or grocers, Local Line's wholesale tooling is years ahead of ours.
→ Food hubs. Their Hub 2.0 product handles multi-vendor aggregation, vendor payouts, and unified ordering. We're not in this category.
→ CSA box customization. Members swapping items in their weekly box, flexible delivery cadences, customizable shares. Local Line is mature here.
→ Compliance and traceability. Lot codes, FSMA 204 traceability for farms selling into regulated wholesale channels.
→ International. They support farms in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. AcreTrail is US-only today.

Where AcreTrail wins

→ Customer-facing branded mobile app. Your customers download an app with your farm's name on it from the App Store and Play Store, not a generic web link. Local Line is web-only on the customer side.
→ Cost for small farms. $9 to $59/mo vs $99 entry. If you're under 200 customers, that's $1,000+/year staying in your pocket.
→ Herd share programs. First-class feature. Memberships, allocations, recurring billing, waitlists. Local Line's subscription tooling is CSA-shaped, not herd-share-shaped.
→ Made-to-order workflow. Custom cuts, seasonal pre-orders, artisan goods with a built-in fulfillment queue. Not a category Local Line really plays in.
→ SMS + push notifications. Order updates, delivery alerts, broadcast messages to customers at a specific pickup. Local Line is email-first.
→ Self-serve trial. Sign up for a 30-day free trial without scheduling a sales call. We'll have your branded instance live within 24 hours.

Adam Nelson, AcreTrail founder, in southwest Washington

Why this exists

I'm a software developer in southwest Washington. I'm also a customer of a dairy farm here that runs local deliveries. They were drowning in text-message orders, so I built AcreTrail.

Now I run it for them, and for any other small farm that wants a flat-fee tool that doesn't punish growth. If you sign up, you'll talk to me, not a support queue.

Adam Nelson, founder · Coral Cove Software, LLC

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Common questions

How long does setup take? +

About 24 hours from CSV import to your first order. We provision your farm's instance, import your customers and products from a Local Line CSV export, and set up your delivery schedule with you.

What happens to my customers' logins during the switch? +

Your customers get an invite from your farm's branded app and create a new account with their existing email address. Passwords don't carry over from Local Line (that wouldn't be secure). Their order history transfers separately as part of the CSV import.

Will my customers have to relearn anything? +

Not really. They see your farm's name and colors, not "AcreTrail." Ordering is a list of products with quantities and a delivery date, the same mental model as a Local Line storefront.

What if I cancel after the free trial? +

No contract, no cancellation fee. You can export your full customer list and order history as CSV anytime, including after you cancel.

Is this really maintained by one person? +

Yes, and that's the point. You get direct support from the person who builds the product, not a ticket queue. The tradeoff: no wholesale price lists, no multi-vendor food-hub support, no compliance/traceability tooling. If your farm needs those, Local Line is the better fit.

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