Earth Born Roots
The live online storefront for a small-batch preserves, sourdough, and botanical goods kitchen, running on Roots HQ — products, market pre-orders, recipes, newsletter, and customer accounts in one system.
The problem
A small-batch kitchen sells online, at local markets, and through pre-orders for market pickup. A generic website template would have handled the product pages and nothing else — leaving market pre-orders, customers, and stock in separate places.
Why existing tools fell short
A template storefront would have handled product pages only — market dates, pickup pre-orders, and the customer list would have stayed in separate tools.
The solution
Earth Born Roots runs on Roots HQ. The storefront, market dates, flash sales, live-shopping support, customer accounts, newsletter, and recipe and blog pages are all served by the platform, and every order lands in the same queue as the business’s other channels.
It is listed here as a storefront built on Roots HQ — not as a separate software product. Roots HQ documents it as a real business that runs on the platform every day, and is clear that it is not a customer testimonial.
- Product catalog and storefront served by Roots HQ
- Market dates with pre-order for market pickup
- Customer accounts, newsletter, recipes, and blog
- One order queue shared with the business’s other sales channels
Engineering involved
This entry shows the Roots HQ storefront in production use; the engineering lives in the platform.
- Storefront delivery
- Served by Roots HQ’s shared storefront shell, with the business’s own domain mapped to its workspace.
- Operations
- Market dates, pickup pre-orders, flash sales, and customer accounts flow into the platform’s order queue and reporting.
- Hosting & maintenance
- Hosted and maintained as part of the Roots HQ platform.
What makes it interesting
This is the platform used for real by a working business. Building software alongside the operation it serves is what keeps features grounded — market pre-orders and pickup exist because a real kitchen needed them.
Outcome
Not measured The storefront is live and its orders flow into the same queue as the business’s other channels. No usage, revenue, or performance figures have been published, so none are claimed here.
Current status
Live Storefront A website or storefront, not a separate software product.
The storefront is live and taking orders at earthbornroots.com.
See it working
Visit the store at earthbornroots.com, and read how it uses the platform at roots-hq.com.
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