Online Ordering for Pickup and Delivery
Customers order from your menu on your own website for pickup or local delivery, choose a time, and pay online. The order goes straight to your kitchen or counter, without a marketplace commission on each order.
Online ordering is built on WooCommerce as part of a WordPress website project; complete websites start at $3,500, and the written proposal gives one fixed price. A typical project takes 5–7 weeks; a large menu with many options can take longer.
What Your Customers Can Do
Order from the menu
Every item with its options, sizes, and extras, and a price that updates as they choose.
Choose pickup or delivery
A pickup time or local delivery within your area, with the fee shown before payment.
Pay online
By card or a digital wallet, or on pickup if you allow it.
Know when it is ready
A confirmation with the order number and the pickup time.
What Your Team Gets
Orders where you work
New orders arrive on a tablet or by email with an alert.
Time slots and limits
Limit how many orders fit in each pickup time, and pause ordering when the kitchen is full.
Menu edited without code
Change items, prices, and availability in the WordPress dashboard.
Your customers, your data
Customer contacts and order history stay with you, not with a marketplace.
Where Online Ordering Helps Most
Restaurants, cafés, bakeries, and gelaterias that sell take-away. The Il Sorriso case study shows a gelateria website where customers build a take-away tub and order it online.
How It Is Built
Online ordering is built on WooCommerce with ordering extensions for menus, options, and time slots. It can work alongside a marketplace listing: many restaurants keep DoorDash or Uber Eats for new customers and move regular customers to their own ordering.
Price
This feature is part of a WordPress website project, not a separate subscription. A complete WordPress website starts at $3,500, and the written proposal lists the feature in your scope with one fixed price. Third-party charges, such as payment processing, plugin licenses, or AI usage, are paid directly to the providers. See Pricing.
Who Does the Work
I handle every project myself: research, writing, design, development, and the server. I have worked on websites, servers, and search for over 20 years, and I work in writing during US business hours. There is no account manager between you and the person doing the work. More about me.
How Long It Takes
The feature is built as part of the website project, which typically takes 5–7 weeks from the first payment to launch. The written proposal, sent within two business days of your brief, states the schedule and the launch date. The schedule assumes you answer questions and review pages within two business days. You receive a written report every week. A large menu with many options, or a connection to your POS, can extend it; the proposal states the date.
How Payment Works
Projects under $5,000 are paid in two parts: 50% when the project is agreed, before research begins, and 50% when the agreed site is ready for final review and corrections are complete, before public launch. From $5,000 there are three payments: 40% at the start, 40% after the structure, content plan, and one representative page are approved, and 20% before public launch. Provider charges, such as payment processing or plugin licenses, are paid directly to the providers.
What You Receive at Handover
- The website, hosting, and business accounts, registered in your name
- Administrator access to WordPress
- Your menu with options, sizes, prices, and availability
- Checkout and payment provider account in your business name, tested with real orders
- Written instructions for editing the menu and pausing orders
- A working backup process
Work You Can Check
ElenaBong
A working WooCommerce store built from scratch: 193 product pages, filters, checkout with a bonus code, and delivery by Nova Poshta.
Il Sorriso
A gelateria website where visitors build a take-away tub online and pay when they collect it at the counter.
Questions About Online Ordering for Pickup and Delivery
Can orders print in the kitchen?
Orders can be sent to a receipt printer through a compatible printing service; the proposal lists the hardware that works.
Can I deliver with my own drivers?
Yes. You set the delivery area, fee, and minimum order, and drivers see the address and notes in the order.
Can customers add a tip?
Yes. A tip option can be added at checkout.
Does it connect to my POS?
Some POS systems connect to WooCommerce; the connection is assessed in the proposal.
How long does it take?
Typically 5–7 weeks from the first payment to launch, as part of the website project. A large menu with many options, or a POS connection, can take longer; the proposal states the date.
What do I need to prepare?
Your menu with options and prices, pickup hours, the delivery area and fees if you deliver, and an account with the payment provider in your business name.
Can I see a working example?
Yes. ElenaBong is a working WooCommerce store, and Il Sorriso is a demo gelateria website with take-away orders online.
Take Orders Without the Commission
Describe your business in the brief and receive a written proposal with a fixed price.

