Feature Request: Set up specific date and time selection for Square Online orders (Pre-orders)

[gelatofiasco]

The title of this post has been edited from the original: How to set up date and time selection for Square Online orders

Hi,

We quickly built a Square/Weebly Online Store this week so that people could place contactless/curbside orders for our gelato shop. It's working great and I love that the tickets print out when it's time to make the order.

We are also implementing a local delivery service where people can preorder with us and we'll deliver it on Friday night. Right now we're doing it by email to take their item order and we respond back with a Square Invoice to capture payment. Has anyone successfully found a way to do local delivery with the Online Store platform?

It would be awesome if besides Pickup or Shipping, merchants could toggle on a Local Delivery button and the merchant could set a few options, such as "Delivery on Friday night, 4-7pm," "Delivery on Saturday afternoon, 12-6pm." Maybe with an option to assign a fee, but that's less important during this emergency response.

Thank you and be safe.

[#2]

@lonestar31 @MCTMN 

We are currently testing Batch Processing in our Beta Community, which may help you out. This is another update to allowing pre-orders on your online store.  We'd love for you to join in the test and provide feedback.

To get started:

Please join our Square Online testing group.
Once accepted there are instructions in the group of how to get started in the test.

[#3]

Hi all! Thank you for jumping into. your thread for pre-orders and more customizable delivery/pick up options. We're excited that this feature is now moving into Beta testing, and we'd love to have you check it out.

Please take a few minutes to ready our Beta Recruiting post- and make sure you're a fit. We're looking to get his launched in the next few days. Also if you've replied to this thread, we will be sending you information on this test via DM as well.

[#4]

The title of this post has been edited from the original: How to set up date and time selection for Square Online orders

Hi,

We quickly built a Square/Weebly Online Store this week so that people could place contactless/curbside orders for our gelato shop. It's working great and I love that the tickets print out when it's time to make the order.

We are also implementing a local delivery service where people can preorder with us and we'll deliver it on Friday night. Right now we're doing it by email to take their item order and we respond back with a Square Invoice to capture payment. Has anyone successfully found a way to do local delivery with the Online Store platform?

It would be awesome if besides Pickup or Shipping, merchants could toggle on a Local Delivery button and the merchant could set a few options, such as "Delivery on Friday night, 4-7pm," "Delivery on Saturday afternoon, 12-6pm." Maybe with an option to assign a fee, but that's less important during this emergency response.

Thank you and be safe.

[Patchwork]

Yes exactly. Switching to service works perfectly

[Patchwork]

Yes, message me if you have trouble making it work. 
you can also create a banner pop up for your page that tells customers day of pick up, then adjust your email after purchase to relay that date again. The 'service' takes away that annoying date days prep time preset

[PreOrder_Apps]

Hi. We're an official Square Partner and our company name is actually Pre-Order. We specialize in creating affordable, fast, custom solutions for Square Sellers. 

This is something our Apps can be tweaked to do easily. 

Let me know if anybody wants to chat about it. We're also working on the first open-source, custom, Square Website Template where we'll be able to put all the custom features people want immediately.

Thanks!

[Seamus]

Hey @reddoorbrewing,

Thanks for reaching out.

Pre-orders are unfortunately not available at the moment, but we're tracking requests for this feature - I've moved your message to this thread to keep all feedback in the one place!

We'll post an update in here once we have any further news about this one 👍

[acm1]

This reply was created from merging an existing thread: need a feature to set specific date?time for pickup

we are a bakery that sells a vast menu. we have holiday items that can only be ordered on a certain day. i see this feature is desired by many other users. is there a feature yet to put  specific dates and or times for holiday items to be picked up?

[Valentina]

I've merged your post into this thread, where others have requested this as well, @acm1.

We will be sure to update this thread as soon as we hear of any changes that would affect this feature, so stay subscribed to be notified of posts added here. The Best Answers here may be of help in the meantime!

[jayzee]

Is there a way for customers to order for a later date (a month or 2 )and it will go into a calendar

[lazysqacres]

Just want to add another vote for this feature. 

We are a small microgreen farm. We have greens grown and available for immediate purchase, crop that is currently growing and will be available at a specified date, and crop that can be planted and grown to order. It would be AMAZING if we could have the option to add an exact date or timeframe the item will be ready. Right now, my customers can’t checkout an item with zero inventory listed, even though I am able to mark it as available in 2 weeks, etc.

As our business expands, we are finding it more and more difficult to track inventory and accept future orders in any form other than telephone or email orders. Adding the convenience of online ordering is nearly essential in today’s marketplace, however, Square just doesn’t handle all the features our business requires. 

[PreOrder_Apps]

Hi there. This is easy stuff. Would you be open to offering your Customers a cool, Square-powered Mobile App to do this? We're an official Square Partner and make custom websites and mobile apps that do all the things people want to do. 

Our Apps allow people to order things that aren't yet in inventory and all kinds of cool things like what you mentioned. Or, let us know if you'd be interested in a sleek, slim "Shop" you can stick inside your existing website that does this also. DM, if interested. We can offer either setup for around $100 (and we accept all the different checkout services that break that up into 4 payments) like ViaBill, QuadPay, Klarna, Sezzle and AfterPay.

[PreOrder_Apps]

Hi there. We've been itching to work with a brewing company. We're an official Square Partner and have all the features you need already perfected and down to a science. We were supposed to work with a big brewing company awhile back and did a lot of Reserve features for them because they had all the new brews they were releasing all the time, but they ended up closing right before we were about to launch the App. Anyway, we'll give ya something free, just to get a Brewing Company in our portfolio. Also, your website is down - we can help with all that. DM us contact info.