The rush arrives on three screens
Messages on one app, comments on another, walk-ins at the counter. The kitchen cannot work from three lists, so one queue is the whole fix.
Food and drink
Take orders and get paid before it leaves the kitchen.
Take orders in chat and from your own store, get paid up front by card, Apple Pay, Google Pay or bank transfer, and keep every order in one queue so nothing is missed at the busy hour.
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Is Crate right for a Food and drink business?
Crate is used by Food and drink businesses to sell from one catalogue across their own online store, Instagram, WhatsApp and the counter. A Food and drink business on Crate lists each product once, with its variants, its photos, its stock and its price in the merchant's own currency, USD or NGN, and every channel then sells that same record. Orders from all of those channels arrive in one Crate queue and stock is drawn down once, so a sale in a chat cannot oversell what is on the shelf. Crate takes the payment methods of the merchant's own market, USSD and pay on delivery included where they apply, and pays out to the business's own bank account. Crate is run from a phone.
The situation this is built for
Where you are now
None of this is unusual. It is what selling in more than one place looks like before there is one system underneath it.
You cook it, then chase the money
Payment on delivery turns every no-show into a loss you already paid for. Taking payment up front happens before anyone lights the stove.
The menu changed and the posts did not
Sold out at eleven, still advertised at two. A catalog customers browse in the app they already use is the version that stays true.
Made for your trade
Built for the way a food business sells.
The same platform underneath, told in the language of your trade. Here is what matters most for the way you sell, all from one dashboard.
- Order in chat. Turn messages into real orders, with a catalog customers browse right in the app they already have open.
- Paid up front. Take %{rails}, and get an alert the moment the money lands, before you start cooking.
- One queue at the rush. Every order from every channel sits in one list, so the kitchen works from a single source of truth at the busy hour.
How a a food business business sells with Crate.
One dashboard
The parts that make this kind of business work are here from the first day. There are no add-ons to stitch together.
Your own branded store
A store on your own domain, not a stall in a marketplace. Your brand, your customers and your customer list, yours to keep.
One catalog, real products
The same catalog sells on your store, on social, in chat and at your counter.
Sell in the messages
Turn the questions that arrive on social and in chat into real, paid orders.
One order queue
Every order from every channel lands in one list, so nothing gets missed.
Get paid in US dollars
Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay and bank transfer. Automatic payouts to your bank.
See what sells
Clear reports on your revenue and your best products, in plain language.
Sell, manage, get paid
Three pillars, for the way you sell.
Sell everywhere, manage it all from one place, and get paid, told in the language of a a food business business.
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Sell
Sell everywhere
Share your menu as a catalog customers browse right in chat, or on your own branded store, with no back and forth over prices.
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Manage
Manage it all
Every order from chat, your store and your counter lands in one queue, so the kitchen never works from three different lists.
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Get paid
Get paid
Take card, Apple Pay, Google Pay and bank transfer up front, get an alert the moment money lands, and start cooking knowing it is paid.
One catalog
Add it once. Sell it everywhere.
Your customers order where they already chat. Share your menu once and it is ready to take orders in chat, from a social post and on your own store, all landing in one queue for the kitchen.
- Your store
- In person
The parts of Crate this trade leans on
What you would use
Named plainly, and each one has a page of its own if you want the detail.
Orders and inventory
Orders from your store, from social, from chat and from your counter land in one place....
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Payments and payouts
Take card, Apple Pay, Google Pay and bank transfer, the ways your customers actually pay....
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Team and roles
Invite your staff and set permissions per person. Give each teammate exactly what they need...
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Selling something specific?
What you make
The same platform, written for the thing itself, down to how it is delivered and what a buyer expects to see before paying.
Food and drink questions
Can customers order from chat?
Yes. You can share a catalog in chat and turn messages into real orders that land in the same queue as your store orders.
Can I take payment before delivery?
Yes. You can take %{rails} up front and get an alert the moment the money lands, before it leaves the kitchen.
Where do my orders show up?
Every order from every channel sits in one queue, so the kitchen works from a single list, even at the busy hour.
Do I need my own website?
No. A branded store on your own domain comes as part of Crate, and customers can also order straight from chat.
Another kind of business?
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Same platform underneath, told in the language of the trade.
Ready to sell your way?
Set up your branded store, add your catalog and take your first order today. Sell everywhere, manage it all and get paid, from one dashboard. Free for 14 days, no card required.
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