Founder’s family business · Live

Hockey’s Farm Shop

Hockey’s Farm is our founder’s family farm shop, cafe and butcher in the New Forest and 2025 New Forest Business of the Year. It runs every day on a platform we built and look after.

Visit the live shop

20 hours
a week back for the team
7 days
a week the shop runs on the platform
2025
New Forest Business of the Year

The project

The problem. A busy farm shop and cafe answers the same customer questions all day, takes bookings by phone and keys its takings into the accounts by hand.

What we built. One platform under the shop’s own brand. A website assistant that answers questions and takes bookings, an online shop, a staff app, a back-office console and takings posted to the accounts automatically.

What it changes. 20 hours a week back for the team, fewer mistakes and figures the owners can trust. Because we live with it every day, we see quickly what saves time and what does not. Every idea is tested here first.

Inside the platform

The back office

Barn is the back-office console the team and directors use every day. Bookings, Christmas orders, supplier invoices, staff and reports sit in one place.

This report looks 30 days ahead and compares bookings so far with a typical month, so the team can see early when it’s running quiet.

Barn’s Reports screen for Hockey’s Farm Shop: a 30-day bookings outlook with 22 bookings so far against a typical 114, and 83 covers booked

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