Standing order manager for wholesale bakeries
The idea
A wholesale bakery with 30 cafe accounts runs on a whiteboard and a phone full of texts: “can we get 6 extra baguettes tomorrow” arrives at 9 p.m., the baker miscounts at 3 a.m., and a cafe opens without its pastry case. Miss an account twice and they find another bakery. The information problem is small but relentless - recurring orders, one-off changes, and two derived documents every single day.
Generic order platforms miss the domain: bakeries need per-day-of-week standing orders, a hard cutoff after which the bake is locked, and the two artefacts that actually run the night - an aggregated production sheet and per-stop pack lists. That native fit is the wedge against both spreadsheets and horizontal wholesale tools.
Who pays
The buyer is the bakery owner with 10-60 wholesale accounts, at 59 USD/month flat - less than the margin on one saved account per year. Distribution: bakery owner groups and forums, wholesale food distribution communities, and direct outreach to bakeries listed as suppliers on cafe websites; each bakery also exposes 30 cafes to the tokenised order link.
MVP scope
- Products, accounts, and per-day-of-week standing order grids
- Tokenised no-login link for accounts to submit one-off overrides before cutoff
- Hard daily cutoff with day locking
- Auto-generated aggregated production sheet and per-stop pack lists
- Month-end per-account CSV export for invoicing
- Skip for v1: invoicing and payments, delivery routing, inventory/ingredient management, retail POS
Build BakeSheet, a web app that runs the wholesale side of a bakery. Stack: Next.js (App Router), Supabase for Postgres and auth, Stripe for the bakery's subscription. Magic-link auth. Model the domain natively: standing orders are per-day-of-week, and everything revolves around a daily cutoff. Setup: the bakery creates its product list (name, unit, wholesale price) and its accounts (cafe name, contact, delivery address, delivery days). Each account gets a standing order: a grid of products x days of week with quantities (e.g. Mon 24 croissants, 12 sourdough; Sat 40 croissants). Order changes: accounts can be given a tokenised link - no login - to view tomorrow's order and submit one-off overrides (skip, increase, add a product) until the cutoff time, default 2 p.m. for next-day delivery. After cutoff the day locks; the baker's numbers must not change under them overnight. Overrides apply to a single date and never mutate the standing order - keep those as separate records. The two daily artefacts: a production sheet aggregating tomorrow's total quantity per product across all accounts (what to bake), and per-stop pack lists in delivery order (what goes in each van crate), both print-friendly and generated automatically at cutoff. Pages: today/tomorrow dashboard, accounts and standing-order grids, override review, production sheet, pack lists, product list, month-end per-account order summary export (CSV) for invoicing. Pricing: 59 USD/month flat via Stripe, 30-day trial.
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