Sell tomorrow's bake tonight.
Bake exactly what was ordered.
When the shop closes, BakeAhead keeps selling: customers reserve from a menu you choose for pickup in tomorrow's window, and you wake up to a production count instead of a guess.
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After closing, customers reserve tomorrow's bake and pay.
A bakery's hardest number is how much to bake.
Too little and the regulars leave empty-handed. Too much and it goes in the bin at close. Pre-orders turn the first half of tomorrow's bake from a forecast into a list — already paid for, already counted.
Your shop is closed. Your storefront doesn't have to be.
01 / After closing
Open after closing.
When you close for the day, customers who visit your storefront are offered tomorrow's bake instead of a closed sign.
They choose from the items you've made available for pre-order, pay, and collect in tomorrow's pickup window.
While you're open, customers can choose tomorrow's pickup at checkout too.
02 / Members
The Midnight Club.
The pre-order menu is for your members — customers with an account at your shop — which makes it a reason to sign up, not just a way to order.
Pre-ordered items can carry a saving you set, so ordering ahead is rewarded rather than just allowed.
03 / The count
Wake up to a count, not a forecast.
BakeAhead adds up every paid pre-order for a bake day into one production list — each item, and how many, most-ordered first — and prints it for the bakehouse wall.
Look ahead to tomorrow, check today's, or go back over what a past bake day sold. The list is built from the orders themselves, so it's never out of date.
04 / Standby
Its own queue, for its own morning.
Pre-orders don't join the daytime queue. They wait in a standby list of their own, so the morning's walk-ins and last night's orders never tread on each other.
They don't count towards how busy the counter looks, either — a big overnight bake never makes the next customer's ready time longer.
05 / Pickup
Handed over by code.
When the pickup window opens, the counter tablet switches to morning mode: today's pre-orders move to the top of the queue, and a customer's order code finds theirs in a second.
Handing it over is the same moment as any other order: your stock is taken down, the sale is in your books, and the loyalty points land.
06 / Your call
Your window, your items.
You set tomorrow's collection window and choose, item by item, what can be pre-ordered. Everything else is simply not offered.
Turn BakeAhead on or off from Store Open / Closed whenever you like. It sits on top of your opening hours; it doesn't change them.
Thought through, underneath
Only what can wait.
Nothing special-cased.
How a basket is kept honest, and why a pre-order is just an order.
Only the items that can wait.
An item that can't be made ahead is never offered for tomorrow, and a basket that mixes the two is caught before checkout — so nobody pays for a pickup you can't make.
The same system underneath.
Pre-orders are ordinary orders with a bake day attached. Payments, refunds, receipts, loyalty and your financial records all treat them exactly the same way.
Bake to the order
Tonight's customers
write tomorrow's list.
Let tonight's customers tell you what tomorrow needs.
Start free — no card needed. Print your counter sign, put it beside the till, and see what happens.