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Let the stock figure be what you can genuinely bake, publish the collection as a slot people book with a minimum notice and a cap, and take the money when the slot is held rather than when the box is handed over.
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Celebration cakeSell what you bake as products in Crate, and let the stock figure be what you can actually produce rather than what is sitting on a shelf. One count stands behind your store, your chat orders and your counter, so when the day is spoken for the product stops selling itself everywhere at once. Where an order is for a date rather than for now, publish the collection as a slot people book, carrying a minimum notice, a limit on how far ahead it can be taken and a cap on how many you will accept, with the days you are closed blocked out. Take the money, or a deposit, when the slot is held. Then work one queue in slot order instead of scrolling back through threads.
Four steps, in order. Each one is a screen you can open on the first day, not a project.
Add what you bake as products and set the count to what you can genuinely produce, not to what is in the cupboard. That single figure stands behind the store, the chat orders and the counter, so the day closes itself the moment it is spoken for rather than at six the next morning.
Where an order is for a date rather than for now, offer the slot with a minimum notice, a limit on how far ahead it can be taken and a cap on how many you will accept in it. Block out the days you are closed and they stop being offered at all.
Ask for payment, or for a deposit, at the moment the booking is made. That is what turns an enquiry into time you have set aside, and it is the single change that removes most of the collections nobody turns up for.
Open the orders list in slot order and work down it. Each order carries its choices, its message and its collection time, and staff accounts mean whoever is on the counter reads the same list you do.
Every kind of product has a detail that decides whether the software fits. These are the ones that decide it here.
A bakery is not limited by a cupboard, it is limited by what one oven and two hands can do before the shop opens. Setting the count to the day's real capacity is stock expressed in the unit that actually runs out, and because every channel draws down that same figure you cannot promise the same tray twice.
A cake for a date is not the same purchase as a loaf for now. Published as a bookable slot it carries a minimum notice, so nobody orders at midnight for the morning, a limit on how far ahead it can be taken and a cap on how many you will accept, and the days you are closed simply never appear.
Most of this trade is collected rather than sent. The collection option states where and when, so a customer reads it instead of asking, and where you also drop locally that is a separate option with its own charge and its own smallest worthwhile order.
Almost every order for a cake starts as a message with a photograph and a date attached. Keep that conversation and put a real product behind it, so the customer picks the date and pays in the same thread instead of being sent somewhere else to start again.
In your market that usually means Your store, Instagram and In person.
Every channel above runs off the one catalog you set up once.
Customers pay by card, Apple Pay, Google Pay or bank transfer, and a slot can ask for the whole amount or for a deposit before it is held. Automatic payouts to your bank. Taking the money when the booking is made is what makes it a booking, and the order records exactly what was paid and what, if anything, is still owed.
Money from card sales lands in your bank account on a rolling two-day schedule. Nothing to claim, nothing to withdraw.
Every order carries the day and the hour it is wanted for, so the queue sorts itself by when things are needed rather than by when they were placed. The collection option states the address and the hours it can be collected in, and a staff account means the person handing the box over is closing off the same order you are looking at.
One subscription covers the store, the catalog, the order queue, the customer records and the counter. There is no separate charge for selling in chat, and no charge per kind of product.
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You have the price and the plan now. Standing the shop up is about fifteen minutes of work.
Named plainly, and each one has a page of its own if you want the detail.
Yes. Set the count to what you can genuinely bake and the product stops selling the moment it reaches zero, on your store and in chat at the same time, because both draw down one figure.
Yes, where the order is published as a bookable collection slot. The slot carries a minimum notice, so an order placed at midnight for the next morning is declined by the shop rather than by you.
Yes. A slot carries a capacity, and the days you are closed can be blocked out so they are never offered in the first place.
Yes. A booking can ask for a deposit before the slot is held, and what is still owed is recorded on the order rather than in somebody's memory.
No. You can send them the product or raise the order into the same queue yourself. Either way it becomes a real order with a date, a price and a payment against it.
Yes. Staff get their own accounts with only the access their job needs, so whoever is serving can work the queue and close off collections without the rest of the business being open to them.
Their orders stay on their customer record, so raising the same order again takes a few taps. It also makes it possible to notice who has stopped ordering, which is harder to spot than it sounds.
Every answer above was written by the people who build crate. If yours is not among them, the Help Center goes deeper, and a person reads what you send.
The same platform underneath, told in the language of the thing you make.
Free for 14 days, no card required. Set the count to what you can bake and publish one collection slot before the next busy weekend.
