Online preorders connected to the bakery's production sheet and books
- The situation
A neighborhood bakery takes custom cake and holiday preorders through an online form and at the shop register. Each morning someone retyped every order into a handwritten production sheet for the bakers, and at month end the bookkeeper re-entered the sales by hand. Orders were missed, and a deposit paid online sometimes never reached the books.
- What was built
On the bakery's site, customers pick items, a pickup day and time, and pay half the total as a deposit. Each order goes onto the bakers' production sheet for its pickup day, grouped by what to bake with the pickup times, and its deposit goes into that day's journal entry in the books. The sheet also reads as a rail of pickup tickets. Every hand-off is logged, and a check holds any order that lands on a closed day. One cake ordered for the day of an oven inspection was held and left off the sheet, its deposit still posted, and the owner moves it to a new day from the log.
- The result
208 preorders reached the sheet and the books with no retyping, $6,595.00 in deposits matched, 1 held for a closed day.
- What the client received
The preorder form, the production sheet by what to bake and by pickup time, the books with daily journal entries, and the sync log.
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