Never Miss a Restock: Get Pantry Alerts Through Our App

At Solo Faith Church in Concord, we kept running into the same quiet problem. Our online food pantry restocks in batches, and the items families need most go fast. If you couldn't check the website at the right moment, you could miss a restock entirely. So we built a fix, and it lives on your phone.Solo Faith Church runs North Carolina's first online food pantry: groceries delivered to the door through DoorDash, with no proof of need, no income check, and no religious test. Every month it reaches more than 160 households across Concord and Kannapolis. But demand moves faster than the shelves. When fresh inventory arrives, the neighbors watching closely order first, and within hours the most useful items are claimed. The households least able to keep refreshing a webpage, often the seniors, veterans, and disabled neighbors the pantry exists to serve, were the ones most likely to miss out.

Download the Solo Faith Church app, turn on notifications, and the timing problem disappears. The moment the pantry restocks, the app sends an alert straight to your phone. You see what's available, place your order, and the food is routed to your door through DoorDash. For a family that can't get to a pantry in the first place, knowing the instant groceries are ready is the difference between a full delivery and an empty cart.To set it up, download the Solo Faith Church app from the link at the bottom of solofaith.org and allow notifications when prompted. When an alert comes in, head to solofaith.org/foodbank to place your order. First-time users sign up for DoorDash delivery through the pantry form first; some paperwork is required, and the pantry currently serves Concord and Kannapolis.Solo Faith's pantry serves more than 160 households every month and projects 3,030 deliveries in 2026. Each delivery costs about $10, and when a family can't cover it, the church does. A restock alert isn't really about technology. It's about making sure the neighbor who needs food the most isn't the one who finds out last. Solo Faith Church meets at 587 Old Charlotte Rd SW, Concord, NC 28027.

Originally published on the Solo Faith Church blog: https://www.solofaith.org/post/never-miss-a-restock-get-pantry-alerts-th... Support Note: This update is part of Solo Faith Church's community journalism initiative to keep Concord and Cabarrus County neighbors informed about the work happening across our food-access ministry. The information in this post was drawn from a description provided directly by Solo Faith Church.