How to setup a store without cutoff times

Setting up a new store without a cutoff time is a great way to take continuous orders daily without worrying about a time that those orders will end or "cutoff". Bottle offers something for everyone with the option to either have a store with a designated cutoff time or without a designated cutoff time.

How to setup a store without a cutoff time:

From your Dashboard, click the 'Stores' tab.
Next, click 'New Store'
You will now be prompted to give your new Store a name. After you've named the Store, you will mark the box that says "No, orders come in when they come in." and then click Next.
Once you've created your store, you're now taken to the settings page. On the settings page you'll see a number of fields, detailed below.
1. Name: The name customers will see when they are selecting which of your plans to purchase from.
2. Image: This is the image that will be displayed next to your Store on the customer selection page.
3. Visible: If this box is checked, the plan will appear on your Bottle page. If it is not, customers will not be able to select the plan/
4. Paused: Pausing a plan on Bottle allows you to stop all notifications and auto-charges. If you Pause a plan, customers can still sign up for the plan and place an order.
5. Order: This determines what order the plan will appear on your Bottle ordering page.
6. Description: This is the description that will appear on the Bottle ordering page.
7. Price Description: This is the descriptor giving more details on pricing.
8. Product Selection Message: You can include a message for the menu page, such as store hours. If you'd like a message to appear on the menu page, enter it here.
9. Minimum Products: This field lets you dictate the total number of minimum products a customer must have before they can checkout.
10. Minimum Total: This field lets you dictate the minimum number of products a customer must have before they can checkout.
11. Maximum Number of Unique Products: This is a rarely used field that lets you specify the maximum number of unique products a customer can have in their cart.
12. Opt in or Opt Out: If you select opt-in the customer will need to confirm their order and hit pay every week. If you select opt out, the customer will be auto-billed unless they skip or pause their order. We strongly suggest that plans without a cutoff time be opt in.
13. Default Interval: This is the default interval for when charges and order reminders will run for the store. You have the option of weekly, biweekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly. However, since this is a no cutoff time store, you do not need to set this for any specific time.
14. Availabilities: Allowing add-on products allows you display menu items that are marked as "available as an add on" in the Products section. Allow discount codes allows customers to enter discount codes when checking out.
15. Show Base Price: For certain pages, this will display the base price of the subscription.
16. Show Product Prices: This will show the price of your products.
17. Prefill Cart: You can have the cart pre-filled at several points throughout the ordering time frame. If you'd like the customer to have a pre-filled cart before they receive the first ordering reminder, select "Fill Cart Before Customer Gets First Reminder". If you'd like the cart to be pre-filled when orders are created at the beginning of the week select "Fill cart when order is created". If you don't want the cart pre-filled, leave both boxes unchecked.
18. Ask for cutoff: This is not applicable to you at this time because this store does not have cutoff times.
Next, you'll want to determine which items customers will be able to purchase on this plan. You can do this under the Products / Categories section.
1. Customer Choices allows you to select which categories from your Products page will be visible in the store. You can read more about how products appear in your store here.
2. From the drop down, you will see all of the menu categories that are available on your products page.
3. Once you choose a category you'll now want to select an autofill option. The auto fill option is relevant for opt out plans. The autofill options will trigger for a customer that is on an opt out plan and who does not make selections. The different types of autofill are choose meals, chosen box, minimum meals or no autofill. To learn more about what these options mean, check out this article on the different auto fill options with Bottle.
4. Price Per Item: This is an optional box. If you leave it blank, Bottle will pull the price from the Products page. If you add a price, Bottle will apply this price to all products in this category. For example, let's say all your breakfast items are always $12. You can put $12 in the price box. However, let's say your breakfast items vary in price. Just leave the box blank, and the price the customer sees will be from the product page. More on the product page can be found here.
5. Discount Rate: Discount rate is the discount applied to each category. For example, if you want to offer 5% off of breakfast items, you would enter 5.
6. Minimum Products: The minimum number of products a customer can choose before they can proceed to checkout.
7. Maximum Products: The maximum number of products a customer can choose before they can proceed to checkout.
8. Order: The order of this section on the product selection page. For example, if you wanted this item to appear at the top of the product selection page, enter 1.
9. Availabilities: Allowing add-on products allows you display menu items that are marked as "available as an add on" in the Products section. Allow discount codes allows customers to enter discount codes when checking out.
10. Show Product Prices: This will show the price of your products.
Unfortunately the nudge settings are not available at the moment. The best way to send a message to these customers is as a scheduled message.