What is a drop storefront?

Your storefront

Pantryk gives you one storefront: your own branded page, with your name, your photographs and your palette. It is not a marketplace — nothing is sold beside you, and Pantryk itself recedes to a badge in the footer. Everything on the page is yours: your items, your buyers, your orders.

It is reachable at yourname.pantryk.shop, and at a domain of your own once you have verified one.

Buyers need no account. They open the page, pick what they want and a pickup slot, and they are done — no sign-up, nothing to install. A buyer account is optional and purely additive: signing in by email gives a returning buyer their order history and messages, and changes nothing for everyone else.

A drop

A drop is one round of selling. You pick items from your catalog onto a menu, say how many units of each you will make, set one or more pickup windows, and publish.

Each pickup time you set holds its own share of those units — the menu’s total splits evenly across your pickup times, so a buyer picking 13:00 sees exactly how many are still there for that time. There is no separate number to set for a pickup time; it is always the menu’s own units, divided.

From then on the drop keeps its own state, and Kitchen shows you which one it is in:

• Draft — saved but not published. Visible to nobody but your team.
• Scheduled — published and waiting for its ordering window to open.
• Live — buyers can order, and the pickup picker marks any time that has filled up.
• Sold out — every unit on the menu is claimed.
• Closed — ordering has ended, because the window ran out or you closed it early.

If every pickup time still ahead of you is taken, buyers see Fully booked on the drop page — units can still be sitting unclaimed on a pickup time that has already passed, so the menu is not Sold out, but there is nowhere left to take a new order. It is not a state of its own: the drop is still Live, and a cancellation frees units again.

A drop whose ordering has ended can still sell Extras: more units of what was on the menu, items that were not on it, or boxes you pack out of what is left. Buyers collect them at that drop’s existing pickup.

Why a round, and not a page that is always open

Because you bake in batches. The units you put on a drop are what your oven and your day can carry, so orders land against a number you chose rather than against an open promise — which is how a drop sells out instead of overrunning what you can bake.

Kitchen then aggregates the whole drop into one prep list, in quantities per item, so you bake once and hand off in order.

Between drops the storefront stays up and costs you nothing.

What sits around the drops

• Catalog — your items. Each one carries its own price and its flags for all 14 EU allergens, and those flags follow it onto every drop menu and every buyer-facing view.
• Custom requests — the one-off work that does not belong on a menu: a birthday cake, a catering order. A structured request arrives, you answer it with a quote, and the buyer accepts it in one tap.
• Payments — pay at pickup is the default and needs no setup at all. Connect Stripe when you want to take card payments at the time of the order.
• Pickup — every order carries a promise the buyer can read: a date, a time window and one of your pickup locations.