How a bake day works
Promote, Prep, Pack, Pickup — what each stage is for, and which ones move on their own.
Every bake day runs through four stages, and the dashboard gives each one its own screen. They exist so that "where is this day up to?" has an answer you can see at a glance instead of holding in your head.
| Stage | What happens | Who moves it |
|---|---|---|
| Promote | Ordering is open. Your menu is live and customers are buying. | Ends itself at the cut-off. |
| Prep | The bake sheet — every item across every order, added up. | You, by ticking rows off. |
| Pack | The packing board — one card per order, checked off as you bag it. | You, as you pack. |
| Pickup | Customers arrive and collect. | Ends when you close the day. |
Stages overlap, and that is normal
Only Promote finishes on a clock. Prep ends when the last row comes off the bake sheet and Pack ends when the last order is bagged — both of those are your hands, not a timer. So a bake morning routinely has Prep and Pack active at the same time, and they can even finish out of order. Nothing is wrong when that happens.
Whether customers can order is separate
A customer can order when the day is active, not closed, and the cut-off has not passed. Nothing about the four stages affects that. Moving the day into Prep does not close ordering, and pausing a day does.
Unticking something
Ticking an item on the bake sheet records when it was baked. Unticking it does not erase that — the record of when it was done, and that it was undone, both stay. Deleting a product later never erases the fact that the thing was baked on a day that already happened.
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