Collection times that match your oven, not just your calendar
Most scheduling tools give you one set of rules for the whole shop. A bakery does not work like that: a decorated cake needs a week's notice, a tray of brownies needs two days, and one rule for both is wrong twice.
So set the days and hours you actually hand orders over, then set rules per range of products:
- Notice periods per range. Two days for brownies, a week for a decorated cake.
- Weekly deadlines. “Order by 9pm Thursday for that weekend.”
- How many collections at once. You cannot hand over twelve boxes in one ten-minute window.
- How much you can make in a week — counted in bakes, not orders. Forty brownies is forty brownies, whether they leave loose or inside boxes.
A customer with a cake and a box of brownies in the same basket gets the times that suit both. When a week is full, it stops being offered — and the customer is told why, rather than finding an empty calendar.
The day before, they can get a reminder that they have something to collect, sent through your own Wix Automations. A forgotten delivery still turns up on a doorstep; a forgotten collection sits behind the counter until it is thrown away, with the ingredients and the morning already paid for.