How do menu weeks work?

Menus are grouped into menu weeks. A menu week is one batch of menus with one order cutoff, and the date you give it NAMES that batch — it is not itself the day the box arrives. If your boxes land on one fixed day, say so under Week schedule (Boxes arrive) and customers read that date instead of the week's; until you do, they see the week. Merchants name it differently depending on how they deliver: with one fixed delivery day, name the week after that day; if you deliver ahead of the week the food is eaten, name it after the eating week; with several delivery days a week, many name it after the week customers order in. When it stops being on sale is your order cutoff, which you can put in the week before (for production lead time) or inside the week itself (to keep selling a week already running). Customers choose meals from the menu weeks you publish for upcoming dates.

Steps

1. Open Menus.
2. Click Add menu week, choose the first day of the menu week, and give it a display name. The start date identifies the week and is the reference for its cutoff and delivery date.
3. With rotation off, set the cutoff and optional delivery date above the week list. Cutoff hours count back from 12:00 AM on each week's start date in your store's timezone: positive means before, 0 or empty means at the start, and negative means after. For a single delivery day, delivery days count forward: 0 is the start date, 2 is two days later, and -2 is two days earlier; leave empty to show the week's dates alone. Check the preview and click Save. These settings apply to all menu weeks.
4. With rotation or evergreen enabled, manage the cutoff and delivery date on that tab instead. A manual week's start date must match a scheduled week to override its meals.
5. Select the week tab.
6. Click Add new menu to choose meals for that week.
7. Repeat for each upcoming week you want customers to see.

Frequently asked questions

Why is Add new menu disabled?

Create a menu week first. The app needs a week before it can attach meals to it.

What happens if there are no upcoming menu weeks?

The storefront widget and customer portal show an empty state telling customers that no upcoming menu weeks are available.

Can I still create a one-off menu when rotation is enabled?

Yes. Manual weekly menus work as one-off overrides. If you need a holiday menu, special event menu, or temporary seasonal menu, create a manual weekly menu for that period start date and customers will see it instead of the rotating menu template.