What’s new in Readyby

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

18 October 2026, Latest

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, and the person who builds Readyby reads it. 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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