For bakeries, butchers, delis & restaurants
Every pie spoken for by the Monday before.
Pies, sides, and whole dinners sold through one link — capped at what your ovens can hold, with pickup windows that keep Wednesday's line moving.
Free while in beta · No card required
Maple Street Bakehouse
Thanksgiving pre-order · pickup Nov 26
Pumpkin pie · 9 inch
$26.00
Pecan pie · 9 inch
$30.00
Sausage & sage stuffing · feeds 6
$24.00
Live demo — try the steppers. Nothing is sent.
Thanksgiving week, every year
The phone never stops
Two weeks of orders taken between customers on a paper pad, prices quoted from memory, and one name nobody can read back.
You bake to a guess
Order 200 pie shells and sell 140 — or sell out by noon Wednesday and turn away the regulars who've come every year for nine years.
Pickup day is a wall of people
Everyone arrives between three and five. Boxes go to the wrong car and two customers get home without their sides.
Why QuickOrderForm
Built for the holiday rush
Caps that match oven capacity
Set a maximum on each pie and the form sells exactly that many. Sold out appears in the form instead of in a phone call you have to make.
Pickup windows that spread the crowd
A slot dropdown — "Wed 9–11", "Wed 11–1" — turns a two-hour wall of customers into a queue that keeps moving.
Every detail written down
Name, phone, slot, items, total. No deciphering the pad on Tuesday night, and no more "I definitely ordered two."
A prep sheet that builds itself
The dashboard totals every item across every order, so Monday's mixing list and Tuesday's bake schedule come from real numbers.
From link to fulfilled, in three steps.
- 1
Build the holiday menu in October
Pies, sides, and whole dinners with prices and caps, plus a pickup-slot dropdown and a required phone field. Have it live before November.
- 2
Open pre-orders early
Counter QR code, Instagram, the email list, a sign in the window. The form description carries your order deadline and pickup date.
- 3
Bake the list, hand over by slot
Item totals drive the bake schedule; the dashboard sorted by pickup slot is your handover sheet. Mark each order fulfilled as it leaves.
What to put on a Thanksgiving pre-order form
Holiday forms live or die on logistics. Get these four right and the Wednesday before runs itself:
- ✓
Pies, sides and dinners with caps
Name the size — "9 inch", "feeds 6" — and cap each item at oven or case capacity so you never sell a pie you can't bake.
- ✓
Pickup day and window (dropdowns, required)
Most orders leave in a four-hour span. Slots are the only thing standing between that and a lobby full of people.
- ✓
Phone number (required)
One text when a batch runs late saves twenty conversations at the counter.
- ✓
Allergies and notes (long text)
Gluten-free crusts and nut allergies come up more this week than any other. Get them in writing with the order.
Frequently asked questions
+When should I open Thanksgiving pre-orders?
Most shops open in mid-to-late October and close the Sunday or Monday before the holiday. You can publish the form even earlier with an "orders open October 15" note in the description, so the link is out there before the season starts.
+How do I make sure I don't oversell pies?
Give every item a maximum quantity matching your capacity for the week. Once orders reach the cap the form stops accepting more of that item, while the rest of the menu keeps selling.
+Can customers pay when they pre-order?
Payments are on our roadmap. Today most shops take payment at pickup or send a payment link with their confirmation — the order total is calculated for you either way.
+Can I reuse the form next year?
Yes. Edit the dates, prices, and caps and the same link carries over — or start a fresh form each year so every season's orders stay in their own list.
Also made for the way they sell
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CSA boxes and honey jars by the crate
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Bakeries
Weekend menu drops that sell out by Friday
Restaurants
Pre-orders and catering trays for the weekend
T-shirts & merch
Size and color runs counted before the print deadline
Fundraisers
Campaign orders tallied without the paper envelopes
Christmas cookies
Cookie boxes and tins sold in limited batches
Florists
Arrangements ordered ahead with dates and card messages
Photographers
Picture-day packages matched to the right subject
Spirit wear
School tees and hoodies sized and sorted by classroom
Custom apparel
Embroidered and printed clothing orders, spec'd and counted
Schools & PTAs
Yearbooks, lunches and spirit sales from one account
Sports teams
Kit sized per player, numbered, and reordered each season
Embroidery & printing
Custom decoration jobs quoted right the first time
Valentine's pre-orders
Roses, chocolates and gift boxes claimed before the 14th
Home bakers
Cottage-kitchen orders out of the DMs and into a list
Meal prep
Weekly menus and meal packs on a repeating link
Open Thanksgiving pre-orders before the phone starts ringing.
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