Baking capacity and quantity limits
The three places a limit can be set, which one wins, and why limits count units rather than orders.
A limit is your promise about how much you can bake. Bakeable stops selling when it is reached, so the number you set is the number you have to make.
Which limit wins
Limits can live in three places, and the most specific one wins:
- A limit set on this product for this specific pickup.
- A limit set on this product for this bake day.
- The product’s own default baking capacity, set on the menu.
If none of the three is set, the product is unlimited.
On a bake day’s menu, a product you never touched keeps tracking its product-level default — so raising that default later raises this day too. A product you touched and left blank is an explicit "unlimited for this day" and stops tracking the default.
Limits count units, not orders
If a cookie sells by the dozen and by the single, both draw from one pool. A cap of 100 cookies is eight dozen and four singles, in any mix. That is why the storefront will tell a customer that only three of a size are left even though the number in your settings says something larger — eleven cookies do not make a dozen.
Limits are per stop
A limit applies to each stop, not to the day as a whole. A Saturday with three stops and a limit of 12 loaves is a commitment to bake 36.
What customers see
A pickup day your customer’s basket does not fit into is still shown to them — greyed out, with a note naming which product is blocking it and whether it is sold out or only partly available. Hiding the day entirely just made it look like you were not baking that week.
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