Changelog

What's new

We ship every week and write about what changed and why. Honest notes, not marketing.

Custom orders and “follow this store”

Two ways to capture demand beyond the weekly batch - bespoke inquiries and a way for customers to never miss an opening.

  • NEW

    Custom orders lookbook

    A new /@you/custom page where you can show off bespoke work - wedding cakes, large platters, themed orders - with photos, descriptions, and optional price lists. A contact form sends each inquiry straight to your inbox (and confirms back to the customer). A Custom orders tab in your dashboard keeps the inquiries together.

  • NEW

    Follow a store

    Customers can drop their email to get notified the moment your next batch opens. Double opt-in so the address is real, one-click unsubscribe in every email, and a Followers list in your dashboard so you can see your audience growing.

- Matthew

Batches open on their own schedule

The bookend to last month's auto-close.

  • NEW

    Schedule a batch to open automatically

    Set an opening time when you build a batch and it flips from scheduled to live on its own - no remembering to hit a button on Monday morning. Combined with automatic closing, a batch can run start to finish without you touching it.

- Matthew

Your bakery now has a Store - built from staples

Your regular items now get their own Store page that customers can browse two different ways, sitting alongside your usual batches.

  • NEW

    Staples and your new Store page

    Mark a product as a staple and it becomes part of your regular menu - your everyday sourdough, your weekend croissants - collected on a dedicated Store page with its own Store tab. Instead of customers hunting through whichever batch is open, your regulars get one place to find the things you always make. You still run your batches as usual, and staples are orderable whenever an upcoming batch includes them. The Store tab appears once you have at least one staple.

  • NEW

    Two ways to browse the Store

    On the Store page customers can browse by pickup date (everything you're offering on a given day) or by product (every upcoming date a given item is available). Same items, whichever way they think about it.

  • NEW

    Multiple pickup windows and locations

    Offer more than one pickup day and time, each tied to a location you set up once in settings. The pickup chip shows customers the date, the window, and where to go.

- Matthew

Bake progress that sticks, plus this changelog

Some quality-of-life polish and a couple of new pages.

  • IMPROVED

    Bake mode remembers where you left off

    Check items off as you bake and your progress is saved to the batch - refresh the page, switch from your phone to the kitchen tablet, and the checkmarks are still there.

  • NEW

    This changelog

    A public page for what's new, with an email list you can subscribe to so updates come to you instead of you having to check.

  • NEW

    A landing page

    Added a basic landing page for Nextbatch, so there's a real front door to the product.

- Matthew

A big week - the full bake-to-pickup workflow

Caught up on a backlog. The whole flow from "open orders Monday" to "hand bags to customers Saturday" is in place now.

  • NEW

    Bake mode

    When you're ready to bake, click into a batch and you'll see a single page totaling every item across every order. "I need 24 cardamom buns and 18 chocolate chip cookies." No spreadsheet math.

  • NEW

    Pack mode

    On pickup day, a separate view groups orders by customer with checkboxes - pack each item, mark each order packed, hand it off. Customer notes show right where you'd want them.

  • NEW

    Allergens

    Tap chips for the FDA Big 9 (milk, eggs, wheat, etc.) on each product, plus a free-text field for notes like "may contain pistachio." Allergens show clearly on the storefront so customers with sensitivities can self-screen.

  • NEW

    Sales tax & bakery location

    Set a tax rate in settings, toggle which products are taxable, and customers see Subtotal / Tax / Total at checkout. Optional bakery location string (city, neighborhood) shows on your storefront.

  • IMPROVED

    Polish across the board

    Drag to reorder products in your batch. Dashboards refresh on focus. Edit prices and quantities on already-open batches. Friendlier date/time picker for scheduling.

- Matthew

Inventory tracking and automatic batch closing

Two helpful features this week.

  • NEW

    Set quantity per product

    Each item in your batch can now have a max - say, 12 morning buns. Customers see "8 left" and can't accidentally order the 13th. When stock hits zero, the item shows "Sold out" instead of letting more orders through.

  • NEW

    Batches close on their own

    Pick a close time when you create a batch and forget about it. No more remembering to flip the switch at 5pm on Thursday.

- Matthew