Logistics Software for Organizations

Rootable helps community-based organizations distribute resources. It manages schedules, deliveries, donations, volunteers, and data.

Our Minimal Viable Product (MVP)

What is an MVP? It provides early users with just enough features. Those users guide future development. We're early in our life span, with time and opportunity for improvement.

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Volunteer Management

Volunteers sign up for available shifts through a mobile friendly interface. On a shift, they can log the types and weights of food.

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Flexible Scheduling

Need to schedule a shift every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month? We modeled our scheduling feature after Google calendar.

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Data Tracking

On shifts, volunteers have the opportunity to log the type of food and weight they pick up & deliver. Export the data to a spreadsheet of your choice.

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Multiple Rescue Models

We cover hubs, decentralized, and hybrid models. Setup shifts with as many pickups and dropoffs as needed.

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There are two types of organizational users in Rootable.

Admins have access to the bulk of functionality. They set up donors, recipients, hubs, shifts, tasks, and invite users.

Volunteers pick up open shifts and log data.

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Our pricing plans

Rootable uses a sliding scale pricing structure. All our plans come with the first 30 days free so you know what you're getting. You won't be asked for a payment method until after the free trial is over. Inspired by the folks at Aorta Coop, we offer the following pricing buckets:

Solidarity
$1600/year

  • Annual budget < $600,000.

  • Highest-paid staff < $70,000/yr.

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Sustain
$3600/yr

  • Annual budget between $600,000 - $1.2 million.

  • Highest-paid staff between $70,000 - $90,000/yr.

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Full Cost
$5600/yr

  • Annual budget between $1.2 million - $5 million.

  • Highest-paid staff between $90,000 - $150,000/yr.

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Redistribution
$10000/yr

  • Annual budget > $5 million.

  • Highest-paid staff > $150,000/yr.

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About us

Rootable is software as movement building - a mechanism to practice open, flexible, cooperatively-owned systems to build collective power.

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User Ownership

We're a cooperative. That means the software is jointly owned and democratically controlled by the organizations that use it.

The future of the software is not in any one organization's hands. There is not "one right way" to operate.

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Collective Power

How might we use data to highlight communities & promote equitable resource distribution? One idea is shared donor receipts.

Streamlining data collection with smaller localized orgs may increase national donations.

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Relationship-based

"The food system is not broken; it's working ... as a caste system based on demographics, economics, & race." Logistics alone won't solve hunger.

Software streamlines logistics so organizations can build and leverage relationships.

Member Owners

The following Colorado organizations cooperatively own Rootable:

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Alternatives

Rootable strives to be a collaborator, not a competitor, with other applications in the space. Ideally, sharing protocols and data to collectively impact issues around food insecurity in an open network. We also can't meet every organizations needs. Consider these other options for your organization:

Contact us

Questions, comments, collaborations?

  • Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A

  • software@foodrescuealliance.org