Getting Your Market Hub Set Up to Accept EBT / Pay Later

Important Links

The following resources, contacts, and instructions will help you get set up to accept EBT/Pay Later on your FarmDrop market hub.

Market Link
https://marketlink.org/eligibility

State Grant Program
https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/state-ebt-equipment

Contacts by state
https://fns-prod.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/media/file/state-ebt-directory.pdf

Payment Procesing
https://totilpay.com/totilpay-go/

Important Contacts

Maine

Maine Department of Health and Human Services
19 Union St.
State House Station 11
Augusta, ME 04333

Mr. Don Ellis, EBT Program Manager
(207) 624-4155
[email protected]

New York

New York Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance
Center for Employment and Economic Supports
40 N. Pearl St., 9th Floor, Section D
Albany, NY 12243

Mr. Luke Posniewski, EBT Director
Employment and Income Support Programs
(518) 473-2578
(518) 474-5281 (Fax)
[email protected]

Step 1 - Start New Application

  • Choose farmers market 
  • Owner can be an individual farm / or market hub manager food business 

* It can take 3-6 weeks to get the EBT card processing machine (machine is free)

Step 2 - Download Payment Processing App

https://totilpay.com/totilpay-go/

Phone Training available to walk you through how to set up the different merchants (your participating vendors) that you are going to be paying out each month.

Step 3 - Communicate with Stakeholders

Getting Your EBT Customers Engaged

  1. How does EBT / Pay Later work for customers
  2. Marketing flyer to recruit EBT / Pay Later Customers
  3. Register as an EBT/Pay Later customer

What Your Producers Need to Know about EBT / Pay Later

  1. How it works for Producers to opt-in to EBT / Pay Later
  2. Sell to EBT/Pay Later customers

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