Gong’s Market became the first single-outlet independent grocer to receive approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to accept SNAP EBT payments. The indie grocer has previously partnered with Grocerist, the only industry-specific solution built on Shopify, and San Francisco-based Forage, one of the third-party payment processors. Forage is also authorised by the USDA for online SNAP transactions, making it one of the only three payment processing platforms.