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When should orders close?

Tell us how long your bake takes from start to ready, and your pickup hours. We’ll work out the latest time to take an order.
Sourdough with an overnight cold proof is often 24 to 36 hours. Cookies might be 2.
What do you know?

Your order-by time

Thursday by 8 AM

for Friday pickup (1 day before).

You start at 8 AM and it's ready at 4 PM the next day. So: 1 baking day before pickup, order by 8 AM.

This counts calendar days. If you take days off from baking, a Doughdate shop skips them when it counts, so the order-by day moves earlier.

Set it once and stop answering late orders. A Doughdate shop closes orders at this time on its own, and can add a fee for short notice.

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How it works

If you know when you start, the order-by time is your start time, counted back by the days the bake takes. If it would be ready after pickup ends, you’d have to start a day earlier, so the order-by time moves a day earlier too.

If you know when it should be ready, we count back the hours from that time to find when you start. That’s the latest an order can come in.

For a long sourdough schedule worked out step by step, see How to take sourdough pre-orders.