27 March 2024

Food Truck 101: Use Best Food Trucks Online Ordering at Your Own Locations

The BFT online ordering system allows you to plug into our already existing customer base. It also helps you to grow your customer base faster by connecting you with customers at a location who may have gone to other food trucks.

When you use our Online Ordering we collect subscribers (anyone who orders or subscribes) by location. So a group of trucks going to the same location will share subscribers and they’ll be emailed anytime ANY truck comes to vend. This grows your marketing capacity exponentially. 


To create your own location or shedule into an existing un-managed location go to "Schedule Custom Shift" on your app. Fill in all the details and you're good to go.

 

Food Truck 101: Use Best Food Trucks Online Ordering at Your Own Locations

SCHEDULE On the web dashboard 

Go to https://trucks.bestfoodtrucks.com/calendar. Then click “new location”  Enter in the info and click submit. If you have a weekly location you can click “recurring” and post for multiple days. For example, if you’re at a location every monday, you can click Monday, set how many weeks you’d like to post for and every Monday will be posted and show up on your menu. From the calendar page you can also connect your google calendar. 

We help ofset the cost of card not present credit card processing fees by rewarding you with a $5 credit towards booking locations every time you have 10 online orders in during one shift.
Card not present fees are standard at 2.9% + .30. Check out fees here:  Stripe vs Square .

Food Truck 101: Use Best Food Trucks Online Ordering at Your Own Locations

Adding a Pre Order Sales Requirement:
Set a pre-order sales minimum. Customers will have the ability to pre-order their meals up to 60 days before the scheduled shift in hopes of meeting the minimum requirement. The order page will show the client and all customers a progress meter so they can see how many more orders are needed to fulfill the pre-order requirement.

If the minimum required amount is not met within 48 hours of the shift start time, you will have the option to cancel the shift and all of the pre-orders placed.

You can start accepting pre-orders from the home screen within the app.

Food Truck 101: Use Best Food Trucks Online Ordering at Your Own Locations
Food Truck 101: Use Best Food Trucks Online Ordering at Your Own Locations

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