Pausing, retiring or ending a pickup day
The difference between pausing a day, archiving it, and retiring one that has subscribers.
Three different things, for three different situations.
| You want to | Use | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| Skip a week or take a holiday | Pause | The day comes off your storefront. Orders already placed are untouched and still yours to fulfil. |
| Stop a day that has no subscribers | Archive | The day leaves your schedule for good. |
| Stop a day that has subscribers | Retire | You set a last date; the day keeps running until then. |
Why you cannot just archive a day with subscribers
A one-off order is something you can refund or honour. A subscription is an open-ended charge with no refund story — archiving underneath one would leave a live card pointed at a stop that will never produce another pickup. So Bakeable refuses, and hands you retirement instead.
Retiring a day
Retirement needs at least seven days’ notice, and the last date snaps to a real occurrence of the day. Until then everything runs normally; no new subscriber can join. When the last date passes, remaining subscribers are paused with their card, items and price held, ready to move to another day.
Bakeable does not yet email your subscribers when you retire a day — that is why the flow asks you to confirm you have contacted them, and hands you their email addresses to copy. Tell them yourself.
Moving subscribers somewhere else
A subscriber can be moved to another stop from their subscription. Bakeable lists which stops they could move to, and flags the ones that would not work rather than hiding them. Their price and items come with them — those come from what they subscribed to, not from the day.
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