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eCommerce & Marketing Agency for Agriculture & Food Brands
The Agency That Grows Food & Agriculture Brands
One team to build, grow, and scale your business online.
From packaging design and your online store to paid media, SEO, and ERP automation, Perishly is the partner built for farms, food producers, and perishable brands. We speak beef, produce, dairy, and cold chain fluently.
Food & ag specialists
Done-for-you delivery
Serving 12+ countries
Orders Today
147
↑ +23%
Revenue MTD
$84k
↑ +18%
AI Parsed
38
0 manual
Recent Orders
#4821
Nobu — Wagyu 40 lbs
Done
$1,240
#4820
Gold Box (subscription)
Shipped
$189
#4819
Halal Tenderloin — NY
Picking
$340
#4817
WhatsApp AI — Ground beef
Done
$290
Why Generalist Agencies Fail Food Brands
Generic eCommerce platforms were built for generic stores.
Not catch weights. Not cold chains. Not harvest windows.
Your food or agriculture brand is only as strong as the team behind it. When your designers, marketers, and developers have never sold a perishable product, you get a pretty website that does not convert and campaigns that miss the buyer. Perishly is built to fix that.
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Your brand does not look as good as your product tastes.
Generic logos, template packaging, and a website that could sell anything. Buyers judge food with their eyes first, and yours is losing sales at first glance.
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Your marketing is run by people who never sold food.
Paid media, SEO, and email that ignore how food is actually bought. You are paying for clicks that never turn into standing wholesale accounts or DTC subscribers.
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Your online store cannot handle how you sell.
Sell by weight. Subscription boxes. Wholesale price lists. Custom cut sheets. Off-the-shelf stores break on all of it, and your developer keeps quoting more hours.
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None of your systems talk to each other.
Orders in one tool, QuickBooks in another, inventory on a spreadsheet. Your team re-keys everything by hand, and mistakes cost you real product.
The food and agriculture brands below hired one team to fix all of it
One Partner. Three Ways We Drive Growth.
Build. Grow. Scale.
Everything your food brand needs, under one roof.
Most brands stitch together a designer here, a marketer there, and a developer somewhere else. We do all three, in sync, so nothing gets lost between teams.
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Pillar 01
Build
Custom design and development. Websites, online stores, product packaging, farm branding, logos, and producer video that make your brand look as good as it sells.
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Pillar 02
Grow
Full-service marketing. Paid media, SEO and content, email, social and influencer, PR, and brand strategy built for food and beverage buyers.
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Pillar 03
Scale
ERP, integration, and AI as a service. QuickBooks and ERP sync, data migration, WhatsApp AI order intake, reorder automation, and recommendation engines.
Trusted by food and agriculture brands that move real product
Superior Farms
Lamb Producer
AgriBeef
Beef Processor
Snake River Farms
Premium Wagyu
Arabian Farms
Poultry & Dairy
Green Giant Fresh
Fresh Produce
Pacific Harvest
Seafood Distributor
Valley Dairy Co.
Artisan Dairy
FreshRoute Foods
Regional Distributor
Superior Farms
Lamb Producer
AgriBeef
Beef Processor
Snake River Farms
Premium Wagyu
Arabian Farms
Poultry & Dairy
Green Giant Fresh
Fresh Produce
Pacific Harvest
Seafood Distributor
Valley Dairy Co.
Artisan Dairy
FreshRoute Foods
Regional Distributor
From single-farm storefronts to enterprise distribution networks — producers across 12 countries run their perishable operations on Perishly.
What We Do
Stop juggling four vendors.
Design, marketing, eCommerce, and tech, delivered by one team that knows food and agriculture. Here is how each part works.
A buying experience your customers will actually use.
Launch a beautiful DTC storefront or B2B ordering portal — or both — from a single platform. Sell by weight, by box, by subscription, or by custom cut sheet. No workarounds. No developer needed.
- Sell-by-weight checkout with pre-authorization
- Subscription boxes with flexible billing cycles
- Wholesale portal with custom price lists per buyer
- Pre-order + harvest-day fulfillment windows
DTC Storefront — Snake River Farms
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Wagyu Ribeye A5
$34/lb
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Gold Box SUB
$189/mo
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Halal Tenderloin
$28/lb
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Custom Cut Sheet
Custom
Your Cart
Wagyu Ribeye — 4.2 lbs$142.80
Gold Box (Sub)$189.00
Total$331.80
Marketing that turns clicks into standing accounts.
A full marketing team for your food or agriculture brand. Paid media, SEO and content, email and lead generation, social and influencer, PR, and brand strategy. Every channel run by people who understand how food buyers decide.
- Paid media and advertising built for food ROAS
- SEO and content marketing that ranks and sells
- Email, lead generation, social and influencer
- Brand strategy, PR, and market research
Campaign Performance · Client Snapshot
Ad Spend MTD
$14k
↑ scaling profitably
Revenue Driven
$76k
5.4× ROAS
New Leads
312
↑ 41% vs last month
Active Campaigns
METAWagyu DTC · Retargeting6.1× ROAS
SEO"buy halal meat online"Rank #2
EMAILSubscription win-back flow32% open
GOOGLEWholesale lead gen4.8× ROAS
Your systems, connected. Your order desk, automated.
ERP, integration, and AI delivered as a service. We connect your store to QuickBooks and your ERP, migrate your data cleanly, and deploy AI that takes orders over WhatsApp, automates re-orders, and recommends the right products. No more re-keying by hand.
- QuickBooks and ERP integration
- Clean, low-risk data migration
- WhatsApp AI order intake in multiple languages
- Re-order automation and recommendation engines
WhatsApp AI Order Intake · We Deploy This
"Hey I need 3 cases wagyu ribeye, 2 tenderloins 12 lbs each, 1 full brisket. Ship Thursday 🙏"
Order confirmed! 3× Wagyu Ribeye (≈42 lbs) · 2× Tenderloin (~24 lbs) · 1× Brisket (~14 lbs). Ships Thu cold-chain. Invoice sent to accounts@buyer.com ✓
Parsed Order #4825 · Synced to QuickBooks
Wagyu Ribeye3 cases
Tenderloin~24 lbs
Full Brisket1 ea
Invoice✓ Sent
Est. Total$2,036
Done-for-you eCommerce, run for your category.
We implement and manage your online store end to end, tuned to your food category. Meat and poultry, fresh produce, dairy and eggs, food and beverage, or coffee and tea. We handle the build, the launch, and the day-to-day so you can focus on the product.
- Managed implementation for your category
- Sell by weight, subscription, and wholesale portals
- Cold-chain-aware inventory and fulfillment setup
- Ongoing management, not just a handoff
Operations We Manage · Live Zones
34°F
Zone A · Beef ✓
39°F
Zone B · Seafood ⚠
0°F
Zone C · Frozen ✓
Batch Tracker · FEFO Priority
LOT-0419Wagyu Ribeye A5May 18Active
LOT-0418Ground Beef 80/20May 12 ⚠Expiring
LOT-0417Halal TenderloinMay 20Active
LOT-0416NY Strip · BulkMay 11 ⛔Priority
Built for Your Industry, Not Adapted for It
Every perishable vertical has its own rules.
We built a platform that knows all of them.
Whether you’re grading beef carcasses, managing a seafood CSA, or running a multi-farm food hub — Perishly has a purpose-built workflow for your operation.
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Meat & Poultry
Sell by cut, by weight, by box — with halal certification and B2B wholesale built in.
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Fresh Produce
Seasonal storefronts, CSA subscription boxes, and harvest-to-order intelligence.
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Dairy & Eggs
Weekly subscriptions, herd shares, and artisan dairy — built for repeat buyers.
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Seafood
Catch-weight pricing, vessel traceability, and sustainability certifications.
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Bakery & Prepared Foods
Pre-orders, batch production, and cottage food compliance — fully automated.
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Food Distribution
Digital B2B ordering, AI intake, and payments — for the $1T wholesale market.
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Farm Supplies & Inputs
Seeds, feed, fertilizer — the supply chain behind the supply chain.
Proven Results
Numbers from real meat operations — not projections.
60%
Average reduction in manual order-entry time for distribution clients
3×
Average DTC revenue growth for farm operators in their first year on Perishly
12+
Countries running perishable operations on Perishly — with more launching monthly
“Before Perishly, we were taking custom beef orders on paper, calling customers to confirm weights, and manually invoicing every single sale. Now our cut-sheet process is digital, customers get their invoice the moment we pack the box, and our DTC revenue has nearly tripled. I wish we’d switched two years earlier.”
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James R., Owner
Grass-Fed Beef Producer · Texas
“Our sales reps were spending 40% of their day entering phone orders into the system. Perishly’s AI intake changed everything — customers text their orders, AI parses it, and it hits our warehouse queue automatically. That’s 20 hours a week back per rep.”
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Sara K., VP Operations
Regional Produce Distributor
Real operators. Real results. No stock photos. Join 500+ perishable businesses running on Perishly.
How we helped Lone Crow Ranch launch a Wagyu DTC brand and scale its subscription.
Challenge
A premium Wagyu and Angus ranch with no real brand, a store that could not handle sell-by-weight or subscriptions, and no marketing engine. Custom orders were tracked on paper and invoiced by hand.
What We Did
We built the brand identity, packaging, and a new online store, launched paid media and email, then connected everything to QuickBooks with automated re-orders. One team handled Build, Grow, and Scale end to end.
“Perishly understood our product before we had to explain it. They built the brand, the store, and the growth engine, all at once.”
— Owner, Lone Crow Ranch
Results
Lone Crow Ranch
Wagyu & Angus · DTC Subscription · Washington
2.8×
Increase in DTC order volume
74%
Reduction in order processing time
5.4×
Return on ad spend from paid media
1
Team for brand, store, and growthy
Works With the Tools Your Business Already Runs On
Your ERP doesn't go away.
Perishly plugs into it.
Pick a single service or the full stack. Everything below is delivered in-house by our food and agriculture specialists.
ERP & Accounting
QuickBooks
NetSuite
SAP
Sage
Xero
Logistics & Shipping
ShipStation
EasyPost
FedEx
UPS
DHL Cold Chain
AI & Comms
WhatsApp Business
Twilio SMS
Zapier
Google Workspace
Payments
Stripe
Authorize.net
ACH / Wire
Plaid
IoT & Cold Chain
Sensitech
Carrier
Testo Monitoring
In-House Team
Design, marketing & dev
Food & Ag Focus
All we do
FSMA 204 Aware
Compliance-ready builds
Secure Delivery
Your data stays yours
Fast Launches
Weeks, not quarters
12+ Countries
Multi-currency & language
One accountable team. Food and agriculture focus. Work that ships and revenue you can measure.
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