Menu and listings
Choose how you sell
Choose the promise buyers see: available now, cooked after ordering, or sold for a planned batch.
Three buyer promises
A Listing is what turns a product into something buyers can order. The selling mode tells buyers what kind of timing promise you are making.
- Ready Now: sell food you have already made. Set stock on hand, and buyers can order while stock remains.
- Made to Order: cook after a buyer orders. Set prep time or date-request guidance, with an optional daily order cap.
- Scheduled Batch: collect orders for one planned batch. Set the order cutoff and pickup window up front.
Which mode fits?
Choose the mode by the promise you can confidently keep, not by the name of the food.
- Cookies boxed and ready to sell today usually fit Ready Now.
- A custom birthday cake that needs lead time usually fits Made to Order.
- A Saturday sourdough drop with a fixed cutoff and pickup window usually fits Scheduled Batch.
Capacity and switching
Stock, batch limits, and daily caps are there to protect your prep time. If the promise changes, switch the listing mode instead of trying to make one mode behave like another.
Closed listings leave the active default view, but they stay available in listing history so you can refer back to them.
Before you switch a listing
Switching modes changes the promise shown to future buyers. Existing orders should still be fulfilled according to the promise the buyer accepted when they ordered.
- 1Check whether the listing already has active or recent orders.
- 2Close the current listing if the old promise should no longer be available.
- 3Create or switch to the new selling mode with the correct stock, cutoff, prep time, or pickup window.
- 4Use Orders Queue to honor any orders that came in under the previous promise.