What’s new in Readyby

Pickup & local-delivery date scheduling for made-to-order and perishable Shopify stores. Here’s what’s changed recently.

29 October 2026, Latest

The picker speaks your store’s language, and pickup locations each count on their own

Receipt slips now print a [ ] box beside each item to tick off when packed, the same as Printby, and the test slip names the location it prints for.
A printer at each location: with two or more pickup locations, give a location its own receipt printer link and slips for orders picked up there print on it; everything else prints on your main printer.
The location messages shoppers see (location first, not available here, two shops in one cart) can be reworded under Settings, Wording and translations.
Two shops in one cart: picking a different shop for an item no longer moves the rest of the cart; the shopper sees a heads-up instead, and each item keeps its own shop. Settings warns when a postal code is in more than one store’s delivery zones.
Upcoming orders: a location menu shows one store's orders at a time, and time windows read 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM, on screen and on printed slips.
One printer for several Dropfeed apps: paste another app’s printer link in the printer section to get one combined link, so Readyby, Rentby and Printby can all print to the same Star printer.
Several locations: a new visit starts at Select a location (unless the cart already has a pickup there, which the picker says), clearing the location clears the date, and delivery is no longer shown as fully booked by pickups at your stores.
Two or more pickup locations: every limit now counts each location on its own, each location can show its city and state or full address and can have its own daily limit, extra notice, same-day cutoff and closed dates, each store can have its own product rules (lead time, days, Max per day), labelled with the store and sorted by tabs, shoppers pick the location before the date, local delivery zones can belong to one store (that store’s dates and limits apply, and the order says which store delivers), a cart can hold pickups at two shops with a heads-up for the shopper, and checkout re-checks dates against that location. Shopify still asks shoppers to choose a pickup location at checkout; the help guide explains how to keep the two the same.
Spanish, French, German, Italian and Portuguese stores: the picker now shows in the store’s language for any wording you haven’t set yourself, including the pickup and delivery names. Anything you typed yourself stays exactly as you wrote it.

28 October 2026

A more consistent look

The Receipt printer page shows what a slip looks like for a pickup, local delivery and shipping order, before you print anything.
Slips history has a Print button on each slip, plus Print selected and Delete selected for several at once. Upcoming orders uses plain buttons instead of an Actions menu.
Receipt slips now say PICKUP, LOCAL DELIVERY or SHIPPING across the top to match the order, with the ready date under the order number. Slips look the same in Readyby, Rentby and Printby.
The line under the picker now says Delivery or Pickup with the date, so a delivery date no longer reads like a pickup date, and time windows show as 9:00 AM–12:00 PM.
A status line on the home page shows whether your date picker is on your store, with a pulsing green dot, Online, and when it last loaded. Notices no longer carry a “!” tile, and not-live ones are amber so they stand out.
Sharper text: the app now uses Inter, the same font as the Shopify admin, on every page, button and menu.
Date shown at checkout from the cart too. A date picked in the cart or the cart drawer is now written onto each item, so it shows under the item at checkout, on the order and in the confirmation email, the same as a date picked on the product page. Shoppers can still change it in the cart.
Each add starts fresh. Once an item is in the cart with its date, the date picker empties, so the next item, or the same one removed and added again, asks for its own date instead of quietly reusing the last one. The drawer picker does the same when the cart changes.
Date picker in cart drawers. If your theme opens the cart as a slide-out drawer, or its cart button goes straight to checkout, switch on Readyby drawer picker under App embeds in the theme editor. The date picker then appears in the drawer above the checkout button, for anything that still needs a date.
Upcoming orders is tidier: filters, search, sort, Prep list, Print and Download CSV sit in one toolbar, and Past due and Coming up are clear bars with an order count. Each stays open or closed the way you left it in that browser.
The receipt printer and settings pages now use the same blue buttons, selections and colors as the rest of Readyby, and every day picker (open days, days you ship, product rules and locations) now uses the same blue boxes with a tick.

25 October 2026

Crossed-out days in the date list

The hex code next to each picker color is now a box you can type into, for when the color dialog only offers red, green and blue.
The admin is tighter. Thinner cards, smaller buttons and text, and wider pages, so more of your schedule, orders and settings fit on the screen without scrolling.
Greyed out or Greyed and crossed out now applies to the date list as well as the calendar. Choose Greyed and crossed out under Settings, Storefront text and days that can’t be picked get an ✕ in front of them in the list, next to the reason. Both “Days that can’t be picked” settings now show whichever picker style you use.

24 October 2026

A shorter home screen, and every booking in Upcoming orders

Showing unavailable days in the date list? You can now pick which kinds appear: blackout dates, days you’re closed, product rule days, fully booked days and notice days, each on or off. The calendar still explains every greyed-out day.
Days that can’t be picked now say why. Tap or hover a greyed-out day on the calendar to see “Closed: Thanksgiving” (your blackout Reason), “Closed” on a day you’re closed, “Fully booked”, “Needs more notice” inside your notice time, or “Not available on this day” for a product or item with its own days. The Reason field on Blackout dates now says shoppers see it. The date list can also show those days greyed out with the same words: choose Show them greyed out under Settings, Storefront text (they are left out by default).
Blackout dates now save with Shopify’s Save and Discard bar at the top, the same as Settings, for new closures and edits. Removing one asks first.
Fixed: if a shopper fixes a date that is no longer available in the cart drawer, they can now check out straight away, without reloading the page.
Fixed: adding a closed date on a day where another closure already starts now tells you, instead of quietly replacing the first one.
The Free monthly count now resets on the 1st in your store’s own time zone, not in UTC.
Upcoming orders and your calendar feed now include up to your newest 1,000 orders from the last 45 to 60 days (depending on your booking window), not just the latest 250. The calendar feed keeps working on busy shops.
The home screen in the app is shorter. The setup steps now link to the help guide, which has the full instructions, and What’s new shows only the latest changes, with a link to this page for the rest.

23 October 2026

We can set it up for you

New: Done-for-you setup in the app menu. For $149 one time, on your Shopify bill, we set your schedule, lead times and limits and place the date picker on your store for you.

22 October 2026

Order slips on your receipt printer

Upcoming orders: your calendar link now waits for Save, like your other changes. Click Create calendar link and the new link shows right away, ready to copy once you Save. Turn off removes it from the page at once, and Discard brings it back.
Email updates box: save it with the Save bar at the top, like every other setting. Once saved, the address is locked; to change it, unsubscribe and add the new one. Replies to our emails now reach support@dropfeed.io.
More calendar styling: color the available days, their background, the hover color and the number on the selected day, and choose whether days that can’t be picked are greyed out or crossed out. The “opens on click” date box now shows a calendar icon. A Reset to defaults link on Storefront text puts the style, colors, labels and wording back in one click (nothing changes until you Save).
New picker style: a month calendar that opens when shoppers click the date box, so the page stays tidy until they choose. Pick it under Settings, Storefront text, How shoppers pick the date.
Choose your own picker colors in the app, next to your wording: selected day and buttons, text, card background and border. Off by default, so the picker keeps following your theme.
Product rules: adding and removing products now waits for Save, like your other changes, so you can Discard if you change your mind. The hours box starts empty until you type a number; empty means your store default.
Product rules: a product’s own lead time now replaces your store default for that product, shorter as well as longer. Set your store to 48 hours and a product to 24, and that product offers dates a day sooner. Before, the store default was the minimum, so a shorter product time had no effect.
Works with add-ons and product options apps: when another app takes over Add to cart and sends only its own choices, Readyby now adds the date, method and time to the same cart line, keeping the add-ons.
Shipping dates: when shoppers pick the day an order arrives, it now reads Estimated arrival instead of “Arrives by”, on the picker, the order and the slip. Carriers don’t guarantee delivery days, so it shouldn’t read as a promise.
Upcoming orders: search by order number or item, sort soonest or latest first (by date and time window) or by order number, and tick orders (or Select all) to print kitchen slips on your receipt printer, print just those orders, or download them as a CSV. The prep list now sits behind a Prep list button so the page stays clean, and each list scrolls in its own box.
The Receipt printer page now shows the printer’s status at a glance: green when connected, and red with a timer counting how long it has been down when it isn’t.
New Slips history on the Receipt printer page: see slips waiting, failed and printed in the last 7 days. Filter by waiting, failed or printed, sort newest or oldest first, by ready date and time, or by order number, or search by order number or item. Tick one, several or all, then choose Print or Delete from Actions. A slip that fails 3 times stops retrying so it can’t hold up the rest.
“Please allow 7 days” is back between the Date label and the date, so shoppers read it before they choose and the Ready line underneath stays clear.
Upcoming orders now opens on what is coming up. Past due orders that aren’t fulfilled are folded at the top with a count; click the arrow to open them. Coming up folds the same way.
New on Starter: connect a Star CloudPRNT printer under Receipt printer in the app menu, and every new order with a Readyby date prints a kitchen slip by itself.
Works with Star CloudPRNT printers such as the TSP143IV and mC-Print3 from Shopify’s POS hardware list. The help guide lists which printers work and how to fix common connection problems.
Each slip shows the order number, ready date, pickup, delivery or shipping, time window, pickup location and items. No customer details.
No computer or app needs to be open. If the printer is off, slips wait and print when it is back.

19 October 2026

A daily limit for each product

Under Product rules, give a product its own Max per day, for example 10 custom cakes. Once a day is full it stops being offered for that product, and the rest of your menu carries on.
Shoppers ordering more than a day can take see a short note asking for a smaller quantity, which you can reword.
Blank means no limit, so nothing changes until you set one.

19 October 2026

Daily limit in items, not just orders

Under Settings, Capacity, choose Items and the daily limit counts quantities: an order of 12 cupcakes uses 12 of the day.
A day stops being offered once it can’t fit the quantity the shopper is ordering, and comes back if they lower it.
Orders stays the default, so nothing changes unless you switch.
The Settings preview no longer shows a sample Add to cart button; your theme places that button, so the preview now shows just the picker.

19 October 2026

Time windows per pickup location

Each pickup location can offer its own time windows, for example 8 to 12 at Main St and 10 to 4 Downtown. Untick the windows a location doesn’t offer under Settings, Order tags and pickup locations.
Shoppers see only the chosen location’s windows, and a day where all of that location’s windows are full stops being offered there.
Locations you leave alone keep every window, exactly as before. The preview in Settings follows the location you pick.
Saving Settings now keeps you where you are on the page instead of jumping to the top.

19 October 2026

Shipping dates

New on Starter: a Shipping choice in the picker, next to pickup and delivery. Shoppers pick the day their order ships, or the day it arrives with your transit time added.
Set the days you ship, a ship-today cutoff and the transit time under Settings, Shipping dates. Lead times, product ready days, closed dates and daily limits all still apply.
Shipped orders show in Upcoming orders and the calendar feed under their ship day, with a Shipping filter and a shipping order tag.
The next available line follows the choice: with Shipping picked it shows your first ship day (or arrival day).
Off until you turn it on. Nothing changes for your current picker.

19 October 2026

Preview a single product

The picker preview in Settings has a new Preview as choice. Pick a product with its own lead time or ready days to see exactly the dates its page offers.
Only shown when you have product rules. Nothing on your store changes.

19 October 2026

Short notice line only for today

When your lead time is under a day, the “Please allow” line now shows only when the shopper picks today. Later dates don’t need it.
Lead times of a day or more work exactly as before.

19 October 2026

Next available date at the top of the picker

New option under Settings → Storefront text: show “Next available: Thu, Oct 22” at the top of the picker, or “Order by 2:00 PM for today” when same-day is still possible.
Off until you tick it.

19 October 2026

Order tags and pickup locations

New section in Settings. If you installed before today, Shopify asks you once to approve Readyby’s two new permissions when you next open the app.
Order tags: new orders with a Readyby date are tagged with their ready date and pickup or delivery, so you can filter your Orders list by day.
Pickup locations: offer pickup at two or more of your locations, each with its own days. The chosen location is saved on the order and shown on Upcoming orders.
Nothing changes for your store until you turn them on.

19 October 2026

Calendar view, and ready days per product

New How shoppers pick the date setting under Settings → Storefront text: keep the dropdown, or show a month calendar with the days you can’t fulfil greyed out. It covers the product page and cart pickers, and your picker stays a dropdown until you change it.
New ready days per product under Product rules: tick the days a product can be ready, for example cakes only Friday to Sunday. Products you don’t change keep every open day.
The picker preview on the Settings page shows whichever you choose.

18 October 2026

Notice line moved under the date

“Please allow 2 days” now sits under the date dropdown, so the Date label sits directly on its dropdown. Screen readers read the line with the dropdown.

18 October 2026

A picker preview on the Settings page

The Settings page now shows a preview of your date picker beside your settings, with your heading, pickup and delivery choices, dropdowns and messages updating as you type.
A sample Add to cart button shows the warning shoppers get without a date.
Delivery zones can now fill in ZIP codes for you: everything within a distance of a ZIP, or every ZIP in a city and state (US only).
It is a preview only: nothing on your store changes until you save, and your theme’s look still applies on the store.

18 October 2026

Print, download and calendar for Upcoming orders, and yearly closed days

Upcoming orders can show just Pickup or just Delivery, and the prep lists follow.
Print the list for the kitchen, or Download CSV to open it as a spreadsheet.
New private calendar link: add your dated orders to Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook. No customer details are included, and you can replace or turn off the link anytime.
Blackout dates can now repeat every year, so Christmas and New Year’s Day only need adding once.

18 October 2026

Upcoming orders, with a prep list for each day

A new Upcoming orders page in the app lists every order with a Readyby date under the day it is due.
Each day starts with a prep list: how many of each item to make or pack for that day.
Fulfilled orders are greyed out, and anything past its date and not yet fulfilled is flagged at the top.
Click an order number to open the order in Shopify.

6 October 2026

Optional email updates

There is a new Email updates box at the bottom of the home screen. Add an email if you would like a heads-up, or leave it empty and you will never get an email from Readyby.
With an address added, you hear from us when your store has used 80% of its plan’s monthly dated orders, and again if it reaches the limit, so a busy week never takes the picker off your store without you knowing.
Otherwise we only write when there is a major update. Every email has an unsubscribe link.

5 October 2026

A tidier picker inside your theme

Some themes style every dropdown on the page. Where they did, the picker’s date and time dropdowns could lose their arrow and show their text sitting low.
The picker now draws its own arrow, in your text colour, and keeps its text centred on any theme.
The space under the date, kept for messages, now only appears when there is a message, so the box no longer has a gap at the bottom.
There is nothing to re-place in your theme.

5 October 2026

The cart picker only asks about items that still need a date

If you use both pickers and schedule only the products you list, a cart holding a dated cake and an unlisted item, such as flowers, showed the cart picker asking for a date again.
The cart picker now looks only at items that have no date yet. If none of those can be scheduled, it stays out of the way. If one can, it asks, using that item’s lead time.
Shops scheduling all products see no change.

5 October 2026

“Only the products I list” is respected again

If you chose Only the products I list under Which products can be scheduled, the picker was still appearing on every product using your template. Products you had unticked as Schedulable under Product rules were showing it too.
Both work again. The picker now appears only on the products your settings allow, and the rest of your catalogue shows nothing at all.
This applies however you added the picker, theme block or pasted code, so you can leave it in your main product template next to the buy button.
There is nothing to re-place in your theme.

4 October 2026

A time window that has already started is no longer offered

If your lead time is under a day, the picker listed every window you run, all day. A shopper standing in front of it at 3pm could still pick your 8am window, and you would find out at the counter.
Readyby now offers only the windows that begin at least your lead time from now. With an hour’s notice set, at 3pm that is your 4pm window onward.
A window already underway is gone even though part of it is left. If you need an hour, a 10am to 12pm window picked at 11:30 is not an hour.
Once the last window of the day has gone by, the day itself stops being offered, the same as when every window is full.
Nothing changes if your lead time is a day or more. Those orders already start on a later date, where no window can be in the past.
There is nothing to re-place in your theme.

4 October 2026

The date picker now works with screen readers

The Date and Time dropdowns were missing the link between their label and the field itself, so a screen reader announced them as unlabelled. They are now correctly labelled.
The line that asks a shopper to choose a date before continuing is now read out rather than only appearing on screen. That matters more than it sounds: it is the only explanation for why the buy button is being held.
The postal code result, whether you deliver to an address or not, is announced the same way.
Nothing looks different, no wording changed, and none of your settings are affected.

11 September 2026

An order with two dates now counts against both days

Since the change below made two ready by dates possible in one order, only the first of them was being counted. The second day’s limit never filled, so a shop using daily limits could be sold past a day it had already promised.
Each line is now counted on its own. Two items collected on the same day still take one place rather than two, which is how the daily limit has always worked.
Nothing on your storefront changes and there is nothing to re-place in your theme. If you use daily limits, they now hold on mixed orders.

11 September 2026

Two lead times in one cart, and nobody gets stopped

A cart holding a 3 day cake and a next day pastry used to refuse checkout. The cart guard judged every line against the longest lead time in the basket, so the pastry’s own legal date came back as unavailable and the shopper was told to pick a new one with no way to fix it.
Each line is now checked against its own product’s rule. Two items, two ready by dates, one order. Checkout is only stopped when a date has genuinely passed, closed or filled up, which is what that guard was built for.
When a cart does hold more than one date, the shopper now sees a plain notice saying so before they check out, rather than finding out at the counter. You can reword it under Wording in Settings.
The cart picker now hides itself when every item in the cart already carries its own date from the product page. If something arrived by quick add or Buy it now with no date, it still appears. Both pickers can now be placed together without the cart one asking a question the cart has already answered.

1 September 2026

Support is on every plan, including Free

It always was. There is one inbox, support@dropfeed.io, answered by Dropfeed. A merchant on Free gets the same answer, at the same speed, as one on the top plan.
So the plan cards no longer list support as something a paid plan adds, and there is no reply-time promise on any plan. Listing something everyone already has as a paid feature is not a difference, it is just noise on the card.
Nothing changed about what you get. Free still covers pickup scheduling in full; the paid plans raise the monthly figure and add local delivery.

28 August 2026

Put the picker where you want it, and say the true thing

Alignment. Both pickers now have an Alignment setting under Layout in your theme editor: left, center or right. Until now the picker sat hard against the left edge of whatever space it was given, and moving it meant writing your own CSS.
Nothing to schedule, nothing shown. The cart picker no longer renders on an empty cart. “Pick your collection date” above “Your cart is empty” was asking shoppers to schedule nothing.
An honest message when there are no dates. If your schedule leaves a shopper with no available date, the picker says so. Previously, a shopper who tried to buy anyway was told to choose a date above, and there was no date there to choose. The button is still held, because the order genuinely can’t be met, but the reason is now the real one.
A heads-up if only the cart picker is placed. If we have seen the cart picker on your storefront but never the date picker, your home page will tell you. A date chosen on the cart page reaches your order under Additional details, but it never lands on the product line, so it does not show against the item you are packing. It also means a shopper who checks out with Buy it now or Shop Pay skips the cart entirely and is never asked for a date at all. Adding the date picker to your product template closes both gaps.

26 August 2026

A cart that can no longer promise a day you’ve closed

New: the cart guard. A shopper adds to cart on Monday with a Saturday pickup, gets distracted, and comes back on Friday. In the meantime Saturday filled up, or you closed it. Their chosen date is attached to the item and nothing re-checked it, so they could check out on a day you can’t serve and you’d find out when the order landed. The guard re-checks every date in the cart against what you can actually do right now, and holds Checkout with a message if one has gone stale. Turn it on in your theme editor under App embeds. It does nothing at all until a cart actually holds one of your dates.
You choose the words. The warning shoppers see is a field in Wording and translations on your Schedule page, alongside the rest of the picker’s text.
The cart picker remembers the postal code. It used to come back empty for a delivery order, and the next thing the shopper changed on that page wiped their whole booking, date included. It now returns filled in.
Dates you’ve stopped offering are cleared. If a date sitting in a cart is no longer one you offer, the cart picker now removes it instead of leaving it to travel to the order. The postal code stays, because that’s still where they live.

26 August 2026

Saving that follows you down the page

Schedule settings now saves from Shopify’s own save bar. It appears at the top of the screen the moment you change something, and it stays there as you scroll, so Save is never out of reach on a long page. The old Save row at the bottom is gone, because two Save buttons on one page is one too many. Shopify also warns you now if you navigate away using its own menu, which nothing inside the app could catch before.
Discard sits next to Save. It puts every field back to what is currently saved, including your open days, delivery zones and time windows. Nothing to confirm, and the page does not reload.
The picker speaks your storefront’s language by default. The “days” and “hours” inside the notice line used to stay English unless you typed replacements into every block, which meant a translated product page could still show “2 days” on the cart. They now follow your storefront language on their own, so a French store reads “2 jours” with nothing to set. Anything you type into a block still takes priority.

25 August 2026

Catches the days your shoppers find nothing

Your Schedule page now checks every day of the week, not just today. A booking window that is too short to reach past your closed days, once your lead time is applied, can leave shoppers arriving on one particular day with no dates at all. It looks perfectly healthy from inside the admin on every other day, and it shows up only as bookings that quietly never happen. Readyby now tells you which day is affected and exactly which setting to widen.
Every word in the picker can be translated. The “days” and “hours” inside the notice line used to stay in English even when you had translated the sentence around them. Those, the loading message and the postal code box are now yours to set, in your own language. Give the day and hour fields a singular and a plural separated by a pipe, like jour|jours.
Clearer block names. In your theme editor, Add block now lists them as Readyby date picker and Readyby cart picker.

August 2026

See exactly what your shoppers see

“What shoppers see right now” on your Schedule page. Every day in your booking window, listed with either Offered or the reason it isn’t: too soon for your lead time, not one of your open days, your own closed-day reason, fully booked, or every time window full. It’s built from the same calculation the storefront uses, so it can’t disagree with what a customer actually gets. If the list looks wrong, your settings are wrong, and now you can see it in one glance instead of opening a product page and counting.
Time zones you’ll actually recognize. The picker now says “Eastern Time, US & Canada” rather than “America/New_York,” with Arizona and Hawaii marked as not observing daylight saving. New stores start on your shop’s own time zone instead of Eastern.
“How far out customers can book” is now “Book up to this many days from today.” The old wording read like a count of dates, and it never was: your lead time and closed days take days out of it. Same behavior, honest label.
Translate the pickup and delivery option names. These were the last two words in the picker you couldn’t change from the theme editor. Now you can, per block, like every other string.
Clearer setup. Readyby no longer drops its block into your theme for you. It opens your theme editor and tells you exactly where to put it, so the picker lands where you want it and never gets added twice. Your Schedule page now links there too.
One thing to set in Shopify. If you offer store pickup, turn on Shopify’s own Local pickup under Settings → Shipping and delivery, otherwise a customer who chooses pickup still gets asked for a shipping address at checkout. The app now says so next to the toggle.

July 2026

Closed-day ranges, and a date requirement that really holds

Blackout ranges. Closing for a week? Set a first and last day closed and the whole stretch is one entry, not seven rows. Ranges cross month and year boundaries, and any entry can be edited in place without deleting it.
“Buy it now” respects the date requirement. Previously the dynamic checkout button could bypass a required date. Both buy buttons are now held until a date is chosen, and hovering either explains why.
The chosen date is attached to the line item. More robust than a cart-level attribute, and it shows directly under the product on the order, including when a shopper uses “Buy it now” and never touches the cart.
Notice shown to shoppers. The picker now says “Please allow 2 days” under the date field, using that product's own lead time, so nobody has to ask why today isn't available.
Per-slot capacity. A time window that fills up grays out for that date while your other windows stay open.

July 2026: First release

Readyby is here

Per-product lead times. A custom cake can need 72h while cookies need 24h, and a mixed cart automatically uses the longest, so nothing is promised too soon. (Corrected September 2026: that is true of the cart picker, which sets one date for the whole cart. With the product page picker each item keeps its own date. See the 11 September entry above.)
Daily capacity caps & same-day cutoffs. Once a day is full, or past your cutoff, it drops out of the picker.
Closed days & open-days control. Block holidays and vacations, and only offer the days you're actually open.
Pickup & local delivery. Offer either or both, with delivery fees and postal-code zones for local drop-off.

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