Industries · Food & beverage

Online catalog and pre-orders for home-based food.

You cook from home. You take orders on WhatsApp. You can't do 50 a day, but you can do 20. WhatsMenu gives you the catalog, pre-order window, daily caps, and structured order flow that turn a home kitchen into a real online business — without a commercial license.

Where home-based food businesses lose hours every week

Five frictions specific to running a food business out of your home kitchen.

Order chaos in WhatsApp

Twenty messages a day, half about menu questions, half ordering. You scroll up to find what someone said yesterday. Order details get lost. The pickup time misremembered. Payment chase by chat.

Daily caps you have to enforce manually

You can prep for 20 customers a day. The 21st message arrives at 9pm; you turn them away after they've already imagined their dinner. You feel bad; they feel bad.

Operating only certain days of the week

You cook Wednesday and Saturday. The rest of the week customers still message asking. You manually reply "we're closed" twenty times.

Pickup vs delivery confusion

Some customers come to pick up. Some want delivery via Lalamove. Some want their friend to fetch. Without a structured flow, every order has a clarifying chat about WHERE.

Ingredients and minimum-order rules nobody enforces

Bento boxes minimum 5. Soup sold by the pot, not the bowl. Some items need 24 hours notice. You enforce these rules in chat — every single time.

How WhatsMenu fits a home-based food business

Five features that move you from chat-chaos to structured orders.

Daily limit caps orders at what you can actually cook

Cap orders at 20 per Wednesday and 20 per Saturday. Once the cap hits, the storefront shows "fully booked for this date." No more 9pm awkward turn-aways.

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Scheduled availability blocks the days you don't cook

Set Wednesday and Saturday as orderable; everything else greyed out. Customers see the next available date — they don't message asking when, they just see.

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Custom item fields handle pickup vs delivery vs minimums

Per item: pickup or delivery? If delivery, address. If pickup, what time? Required field for orders below 5 bento boxes — "this is a minimum-5 item." Structured at checkout, no clarifying chat.

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Share cart for the bespoke "make me something special" requests

Regular WhatsApps you a share-cart link asking for the usual plus an extra portion. You confirm in chat, they pay via the cart link, the order joins your structured flow. Best of both worlds.

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WhatsApp ordering brings your existing customers in

Share your storefront link in your WhatsApp Business broadcast. Customers tap, browse, order. The structured order arrives in WhatsApp; you cook it. They're still ordering "via WhatsApp" — you just get clean data.

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How a home cook uses WhatsMenu through the week

Sunday evening you set Wednesday's menu — 5 bento options, capped at 20 orders total. Schedule shows orders open Sunday 6pm through Tuesday midnight. Tuesday by 9pm the cap hits — storefront flips to "Wednesday fully booked, next date Saturday." Wednesday morning you have a clean order list — 20 customers, each with their bento choice, pickup vs delivery, address, pickup time. Cook, pack, hand out. Saturday repeats. No 9pm regret messages, no chasing payment, no clarifying "where" chats.

Frequently asked questions

Can I limit orders to 20 a day on certain days only?

Yes. Daily Limit caps total orders per day; Scheduled Availability blocks the days you don't cook. Set Wednesday and Saturday as orderable, capped at 20 each. Other days are greyed out — customers see "next available: Wednesday."

Do I need a commercial license to use WhatsMenu?

No. WhatsMenu doesn't require any license — it's an online catalog and order tool. Whether YOU need a license depends on your country's home-business rules; WhatsMenu doesn't add any compliance layer either way.

Can customers WhatsApp me directly instead of using the cart?

Yes — you can configure WhatsApp Ordering mode where the cart converts to a structured WhatsApp message. Same data, just delivered via chat instead of order email.

How do I handle different pickup vs delivery preferences?

Use Custom Item Fields to add a "pickup or delivery" field at checkout. If delivery, ask for address. If pickup, ask for time slot. All structured, no chat clarification.

Can I require a minimum order for some items?

Yes — set a minimum quantity per item or a minimum total order value. The cart enforces it at checkout. No more "actually we don't do single bentos."

How do I get paid — do customers pay online?

Both options. Connect Stripe / FPX / e-wallet for online payment, or accept cash on pickup / delivery. Many home cooks prefer cash on pickup; others want online to avoid the chase.

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