Readyby
Let customers choose when their order is ready, for store pickup or local delivery, with real lead times set per product.
Readyby adds a date picker to your product pages, built for stores that make what they sell: bakeries, butchers, florists, meal prep, custom fabrication. Most scheduling apps treat notice as one store-wide setting. Readyby sets it per product. A custom cake can need 72 hours while cookies need 24, and a mixed cart automatically uses the longest lead time in it. Shoppers only ever see the dates your schedule allows.
Start free on the Shopify App Store
Install in a couple of clicks and set your first lead time in minutes. The Free plan covers pickup scheduling in full, time slots included, up to 25 scheduled orders a month.
Get Readyby →What Readyby does
- Lead times per product. And a mixed cart uses the longest, so nothing is promised too soon.
- Same-day cutoff. Past your cutoff time, same-day capable items roll to the next day on their own.
- Daily capacity caps. Set how many orders a day you can take. Once a day hits its cap it stops being offered to shoppers.
- Closed days & blackout dates. Holidays, vacations and the weekdays you’re shut come off the calendar automatically.
- Pickup or local delivery. With postal-code zones for delivery, plus optional pickup time windows such as morning or afternoon.
- The date lands on the order. Whoever packs it sees exactly when it’s due.
How it works
- Set your schedule. Lead time, same-day cutoff, open days, booking window, daily capacity, and which methods you offer.
- Add per-product rules. Give the products that need more notice their own lead time.
- Add the picker to your product page. One button opens your theme editor on the product template; drop the Readyby — date picker block under the Buy button and save.
- Customers pick a date. Only from dates that satisfy every rule above. Their choice is saved to the order.
Planned pricing
| Plan | Price | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Store pickup, pickup time slots, per-product lead times, same-day cutoff, open days, booking window, capacity caps, blackout dates, up to 25 scheduled orders/month |
| Starter | $24.99/mo | Everything in Free, unlimited scheduled orders, local delivery with postal-code zones, no “Powered by Readyby” badge |
Settings, product rules and blackout dates are never metered. Free meters only the number of scheduled orders per month. Time slots are on the free plan, not held back. Starter includes a 7-day free trial, billing runs through Shopify, and you can cancel anytime.
Frequently asked questions
What if different products need different notice?
Set a lead time per product. When a cart mixes them, Readyby applies the longest lead time of everything in it, so a box with a custom cake in it inherits the cake’s notice.
Does Readyby change my checkout?
No. It adds a picker to your product page and writes the chosen date, method and time window onto the order. Shopify checkout is untouched.
Can I stop taking orders for one specific day?
Yes, add it as a blackout date for a one-off closure, or lower that day’s capacity. Closed days disappear from the picker.
Whose time zone do the cutoffs use?
Yours. All date math runs in the store time zone you set, so “same-day before 2pm” always means your 2pm.
When is it available?
It’s built and in testing now, ahead of the App Store listing. Email support@dropfeed.io and you’ll hear the day it goes live.