Customer
Collect reliable contact details.
Ask for name, phone, and email. Capture a different pickup person's name when needed.
- Purchaser name, phone, and email.
- Alternate pickup person's name.
- Preferred confirmation channel.
Describe your Valentine's offer. Makeform creates a pre-order form with items, quantities, pickup times, customer details, and order notes.
Route pre-orders to email, Google Sheets, Slack, and Zapier.
Sample prompts for the builder
Choose a sample, replace its items and pickup windows, then edit before publishing.
Audience
Customers reserving cakes, cookies, and treat boxes
Format
Product order with flavors and pickup slots
Prompt size
351 chars
Example form structure
Product order with flavors and pickup slots
Choose Valentine's treats
Quantity for each selected item
Flavor and decoration choices
Pickup date and 15-minute window
Allergy notes and gift message
Suggested routing tags
Bakery pickup
Bouquet reservation
Dinner package
Separate pickup date and time so staff can sort orders by handoff window.
Step 1
Choose
item, variation, and quantity
Step 2
Schedule
pickup day, location, and window
Step 3
Confirm
staff checks stock and sends the total
Step 4
Prepare
production list grouped for handoff
A calmer Valentine's rush
Messages hide quantities, allergy notes, and pickup timing. A structured form gives customers consistent choices and staff clean records.
Present only planned products and add-ons, with required variation and quantity questions.
Show pickup times for pickup orders and address, recipient, and window fields for delivery.
Keep contact, item, quantity, notes, and handoff timing together in each submission.
Built around the offer
Choose a sales pattern, then replace its inventory, fulfillment choices, deadline, and confirmation wording.
Treat boxes, cakes, cookies, flavors, inscription text, allergy notes, quantities, and timed counter pickup.
Bouquet styles, sizes, colors, vase and card add-ons, recipient details, pickup, or local delivery.
Meals for two or four, per-guest entrée choices, sides, desserts, dietary notes, and hot or chilled handoff.
A short mobile order path for gift bundles, personalization, requested pickup slots, and confirmation preferences.
From menu to pickup list
Give Makeform your offer, cutoff, and handoff rules, then refine the generated form for your team.
List each item, variation, price, add-on, location, fulfillment date, and cutoff.
Require essential fields and reveal delivery or personalization questions only when selected.
Explain pending status, then route requests to the person checking availability, timing, and total.
Group submissions by item and pickup window; track requested, confirmed, prepared, and collected status.
Form vs calls and messages
A useful intake method captures the item and timing needed for preparation and handoff.
Field guide
These six sections cover the path from customer identity to confirmation.
Customer
Ask for name, phone, and email. Capture a different pickup person's name when needed.
Items
Show clear product names, descriptions, sizes, and prices. Keep quantities tied to variations.
Personalization
Ask for inscription, message, color, or recipient details only when the product supports them.
Food needs
Give allergy and dietary information a direct question, then explain how staff reviews requests.
Fulfillment
Offer planned dates and windows. Keep pickup instructions separate from delivery details.
Confirmation
Say whether submission reserves inventory or awaits confirmation. Include the cutoff and next step.
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Open toolFAQ
Answers for businesses planning a limited seasonal offer.
It lets customers request seasonal products before Valentine's Day. It records items, variations, quantities, contact details, personalization, and fulfillment timing consistently.
Include contact details, item and variation, quantity, add-ons, personalization, relevant dietary notes, fulfillment choice, date, requested window, and confirmation acknowledgment.
Yes. Use choice fields for the menu and number fields for quantities. Put quantity beside each product and use conditional sections for its options.
Offer only staffed dates, locations, and windows. Keep date and time separate for sorting, show location instructions, and confirm requested windows when reviewed manually.
Yes. Show location and time for pickup, or reveal address, access notes, recipient phone, and delivery window for delivery.
Match your workflow. If staff checks inventory, timing, or total, call submission a request until confirmed and explain the next message.
Yes. Makeform provides unlimited free forms and responses. Generate, edit, and publish on the unlimited free plan; the paid tier removes the badge.
Send submissions to an inbox or sheet, sort by product, quantity, date, and window, then track requested, confirmed, prepared, and collected status.
Open Valentine's pre-orders with one clear intake path.