ok, this might not be relevant anymore for you as you might have found a different solution that works for you, but thought I’d post it here regardless

As it happens, I have been pretty much re-writing the preorder plugin over the last few weeks to address several issues.
Mainly related to the usage of the plugin in non-english language environments, but also fixing some other edge case bugs I came across while doing so, as well as some slight performance and UI improvements in several places.

Furthermore, having had many conversations over the years of the existence of this plugin, it transpired that the “ASAP” option of the plugin caused more harm then good, as people (read:customers) selected “asap” (or whatever was set in the localization options of the plugin) when the shop was closed and subsequently phoned the shop complaining that the order – unsurprisingly, as the shop was closed at the time of the order – was not delivered in the next 30 minutes or so.
(People simply don’t read notices like that)

Therefore now the plugin forces a selection of an order timeslot when the shop is currently closed and displays the next available – but changeable of course – timeslot when the shop is open to avoid these situations (i.e the ‘asap’ option has been removed – at least for the time being).

That’s just as a background.

Due to the current situation regarding lockdowns and whatnot I have had various conversations in the last few days (this thread being one of them of course), which suggests that restaurant/pizzarias et al are quite overwhelmed with orders they are getting and need to somewhat throttle the amount of orders they are accepting.

So, to cut a long story short, I made this request “jump the queue of things to do” so to speak and have integrated this into the next update of the plugin which I hope to be able to release in the next few days (it will be version v3.0).

The only thing is – it being a re-write pretty much – that making it available sooner rather than I would ideally like to might result there being a few bugs still (although it has been tested quite a lot by now by myself and others without any adverse effects from what i can tell)

just thought I’d post this here for anyone who comes across this thread/topic

@jordangerrard
please post you own topic
https://www.wp-pizza.com/topic/forum-rules-read-me-before-posting/

furthermore, making a reply private to a thread you did not start, doesn’t make it private. the “owner” of the thread will be able to read it