Chapter 1 of 5
Set up your storefront
Confirm your email, name your storefront and its address, add a pickup location — the three things a first drop waits on, and nothing else.
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This is the first of five chapters that take you from signing up to standing at the counter handing orders over. Read them in order and you can publish your first drop the same day.
This one is the groundwork: the storefront itself. It is shorter than it looks, because most of what Kitchen offers can wait until after your first pickup day.
Sign up, then confirm your email
Signing up asks only for what you already know: your name, what your storefront is called, the address you want it on, an email address and a password, and the country you sell in. There is no card to enter.
The rest is set for you. The currency you price in and the language your buyers are written to in come from the country you chose, and your storefront’s clock is taken from the browser you signed up on.
Signing up ends on Check your email, with the address the confirmation went to. Open the link in that message — or type the six-digit code from it, if you opened the email on another device. Resend code sends it again.
Identity — your name and your address
Continue to your kitchen lands you on Today. Open Settings and you arrive on Identity, which holds the handful of facts your whole storefront is built from.
- Display name is your storefront’s name, and it is the one field a buyer meets everywhere: on the storefront, on receipts and in the emails you send them.
- Public address is the label in front of
.pantryk.shop. Kitchen checks whether the one you type is free while you type it, and offers alternatives when it is taken. - Country is read-only. It fixes the currency your prices, orders and payouts are in, so it cannot be changed once your storefront exists.
- Timezone is the clock your drop times are entered and read in.
- Buyer email language is the language of order confirmations, pickup reminders and receipts. Kitchen itself stays in English whichever you choose.
- Visibility is the switch between Live and Hidden.
What “Live” is waiting for
While your storefront is hidden, Identity carries a short checklist above the sections with four requirements: confirm your email, add a pickup location, add at least one product, and turn on a payment option. Going Live stays disabled until all four are met, and Kitchen names the next open step rather than leaving you to hunt for it.
The same four steps — plus publishing a drop and inviting your team — are on Today, where a new storefront meets Let’s get your kitchen ready, and in the Ready to publish card in the sidebar. Nothing there is a box you tick: each step is checked by looking at your storefront, and it is done when the thing it names exists. See Set-up checklist for the whole list.
Add a pickup location
This is the one piece of set-up a drop genuinely cannot do without, so do it now: Settings → Storefront → Pickup locations. Name the place buyers collect from — your kitchen door, a market stall, a café counter — and say where it is.
One active location is enough. If you add several, one of them is the primary and is listed first, for you and for your buyers.
Payments can stay as they are
Pay at pickup is on by default and needs no setup at all: the buyer reserves a slot, pays you at the counter however you already take money, and you record the payment in Kitchen. That is a payment option, so the fourth requirement is already met.
Connecting Stripe for card payments at checkout is worth doing — it just does not have to happen before your first drop. Connect Stripe is there when you want it.
What buyers read, and what they see
Two more areas of Settings are worth ten minutes before you share the address, and both can be finished after your first drop just as well.
- Profile is the written storefront: a Tagline, a Story, your business hours, your business details and an FAQ.
- Branding is the look: a theme or your own brand colour, a Logo (a square mark, at least 256×256 px) and a Cover photo (at least 1600×600 px), with a live preview beside them.
Edit your storefront profile walks through every field of both.
Next: Add products — the catalog your first drop’s menu is built from.