Co-op Management

Ginger is a comprehensive web-based application that covers a wide range of aspects in the management of cooperatives and buying clubs. Ginger was designed and developed using a flexible engine, allowing each application to be fully customized in terms of user interface, screens and functionality.

Ginger is the product of a tight cooperation with an Israel organic food coop named Organiada that assisted in the functional design of the application in order to make it as simple and useful as possible

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Ginger Paradigm

Ginger was developed following a periodic "Market Day" paradigm where coop members arrive at the coop distribution point to collect products.

Ginger manages two types of products. The first are products that can be ordered through the website (typically fruits, vegetables etc.) and the second are products that can be picked up and selected in the distribution point (typically dry items like rice, pasta, honey etc.). The first type provides tools for managing products that are ordered from suppliers based on the actual member orders while the later allows coops to maintain inventory.

Ginger Features and Scope

Ginger provides an interface for members as well as for administrators. The application includes the following functionality (partial list):

  • Coop web site allowing owners to add their content anywhere, anytime
  • Member management, including registration application, password management, management of business members etc.
  • Product management, supporting many product parameters and the association of products to suppliers
  • Supplier management
  • Generation of order summary to be sent to suppliers
  • Complete shopping cart with extensive management features
  • Automatic generation of supplier orders
  • 1-Click to send orders to suppliers
  • Creation and management of market days
  • Product stock management
  • Balance management, including revenues, expenses and assets
  • Coop shares management and balance
  • Email based messaging with members and suppliers
  • Archive of market day reports
  • Graphical reports of coop status (sales figures, cost, members etc.)

Ginger was designed from ground up to also support non-Latin languages such as Greek, Hebrew, Russian, Arabic and more.

Services

Ginger is a very flexible management application that can be customized to the need of your coop.

Ginger may require some customizations to fit your coop. Some of these customizations can be done by you (like user interface design and implementation) but some require our services as they rely on the internal code that operates Ginger.

As part of the application ,we provide customization services that include:

  • User interface design and implementation
  • Feature customization
  • Addition of new features

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Gold Package

As you most likely want to concentrate on running your coop and not in handling and managing the underlying technology, we can offer you a "Gold" package, in which we manage the entire service for you, including:

  • Domain registration
  • Hosting service - sign-up and configuration
  • Ginger installation
  • Ginger customizations
  • Periodic database and file backups
  • Web-site graphic design
  • Tailored features and extension that enhance your coop's productivity

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