A route is a day, a set of stops, and the people allowed to order on it. Keep a host-home drop off the public list and approve who joins, one customer at a time.
Most farm software gives you a flat list of pickup locations. AcreTrail groups them into routes. A route is one delivery day, the stops you make on it, and the people allowed to order on it. That is how you actually drive it, so that is how the software models it.
Some stops should not be public. If your Tuesday drop is in a customer's driveway, publishing that address to everyone who signs up is not an option. Mark the route private and it disappears for everyone who is not on it, rather than showing up greyed out with a message about who is allowed.
You decide who joins a private route. Add customers directly, or let them request access and work through the requests as capacity allows. It is a simple way to grow a stop at the pace the stop can actually handle.
Access control changes who can order, not how you run the day. Pick a delivery date and you still get one packing list with product totals, then drill into each stop to see exactly who ordered what. Private stops appear alongside public ones.
A route in AcreTrail is a delivery day, the set of pickup stops on it, and the list of customers allowed to order on it. Marking a route private means only approved members can see it or order on it. Everyone else does not see the route at all, so a stop at a host home or a member-only pickup never appears on a public list.
Hiding a location turns it off for everybody. A private route stays fully live for the people on it while staying invisible to everyone else. Two customers open the same app on the same day and see different routes, based on who has been approved for what.
Yes. A customer can request access and land in a waiting state on that route, and you approve or decline when you are ready. That lets you fill a stop as capacity allows instead of turning people away or opening the stop to everyone at once.
Yes, and most farms do. Your Tuesday run might include three public stops plus one host home that is members only. Public routes behave normally for every approved customer, and private routes are layered on top for the people you have added.
Yes. Route visibility and membership work the same way on the web app and on the iOS and Android apps. A customer who is not a member of a private route will not see it on any device.
No. Routes are open to all approved customers unless you mark one private. If every stop you run is public, you never have to think about membership and AcreTrail works like a normal ordering app.
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