Hey @nnnnathaniel and @AdmiralsArm, thanks for following up on this!
If you have self-serve ordering, the time-based categories would still applied so when customers scan the QR code to order, they'd only be able to order items that are available at the time of their ordering.
In terms of pre-ordering with time-based categories, there is a way to do this. However, this doesn't work with self-serve ordering at the moments as all self-serve orders are automatically marked as As Soon As Possible.
To pre-order with time-based categories, you'd need to be on the full website itself and not access it through the QR code.
For example, I have a test Food category which is available between 12pm and 3pm, Thursday to Saturday.
When I go on the site now (quarter to 12), I'm automatically assigned a As Soon As Possible pickup & delivery spot, so I won't see any of the food items.
However, if I change my time to after the item is available (and take into account any prep time set. In this case, I set my prep time to 15 minutes), I should then see the food items and order them for later.
I know this is not ideal since it isn't fully working with the self-serve ordering but I hope it'll still be of help!
Thanks for your reply @AdmiralsArm!
Customers should be able to schedule their delivery for later before going to checkout now actually. Our team have rolled out this feature recently.
When customers go to your site, they will be able to click into the As Soon As Possible tab and schedule their delivery from here.
As you're using time-based categories, customers can still browse all the items by changing the Available items to All items.
Again, this would only help on the full website when customers are ordering for pickup & delivery. For self-serve orders, they won't be able to change their time as self-serve orders are set to As Soon As Possible by default, but I had a further look and they should still be able to browser items by changing from Available items to All items.
