Pit Boss

Cook dates, orders and what you actually made.

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Schedule a cook

What's going on the pit

Leave a count at zero and it stays off this cook. Meat prices move, so what you paid is per cook, not fixed.

Makes this a private cook. The date still shows on the shop, but nobody can order without the word — give it to the folks you want ordering. Not case-sensitive.

What this cook will pull from the pantry

Worked out from the usage you set on the Supplies tab. Nothing comes out of stock until you mark the cook done.

Put in a butt count to see it.

Pickup windows

Confirmations & reminders

Messages are written for you. Tap Text or Email to open your phone's own app with it filled in, then mark it sent. Nothing goes out on its own.

Confirmations to send

Reminders due

Message wording

Placeholders: {name} {date} {slot} {items} {total} {order}

Cold storage

Meat you've bought and are holding. A cook takes its pieces out when you mark it cooked, same as the pantry.

Log a meat run

Pieces and what you paid. Pounds are optional but worth putting in — it's how you shop, and it gives you a price per pound.

Recent meat runs

The pantry

Buy in bulk, log the receipt, and every cook prices itself off what you actually paid. "Per butt" and "per cook" are how fast it goes.

How you buy it

Rub comes in a container and gets used by the ounce, so say how much is in one and logging a purchase does the arithmetic. Pick a supplier and you also get a one‑click price check — paste the exact product page once and it'll go straight there; without one it searches, or opens the ordering site so you can look it up. All of it saves with the shelf.

Log a purchase

Adds to stock and rolls into the average cost.

Recent receipts

The album

Drop photos into the site's public/photos folder, then hit "Look for new photos". Caption them here — the caption is what a customer reads, and what a screen reader says. "On the shop page" puts it in the strip above the cook dates. Photos customers send in show up at the top marked Sent in; set Showing to Yes to put one in the album. Removing a customer's photo deletes the file for good.

Albums & who you cooked for

Type an album name on a photo above and it turns up here. Fill in who it was for and what happened and it gets a card on who we’ve cooked for — which is the page a church or a ball team reads before they call you. Untick A cause for an album that’s just pictures.

What customers said

Nothing shows on the site until you approve it. Email and phone are yours only — they never appear publicly, approved or not.

Menu & prices

Each item comes off one thing on the pit and eats a portion of it. Something priced at $0 stays off the shop no matter what Active says.

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