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title: How to give each wholesale bakery customer their own delivery days
Metadescription: Delivery days sit on an order profile, not on the customer, and each day carries its own ordering deadline. How to run several bakery rounds at once.
author: Dan Edwards
author_role: Founder
author_url: https://danedwardsdeveloper.com
author_linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-edwards-developer
published: 2026-08-26
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# How to give each wholesale bakery customer their own delivery days

Delivery days are not held on the customer in Wholesale Handler. They sit on an [order profile](https://wholesalehandler.com/articles/how-order-profiles-work-on-wholesale-handler) - a named set of ordering rules - and each customer is assigned exactly one. A profile carries the days you deliver, and every day carries its own ordering deadline, so cafes taking Monday and Thursday and shops taking Tuesday are two profiles rather than a setting per account.

By **[Dan Edwards](https://wholesalehandler.com/about)**, Founder.

## Days belong to a profile

A Wholesale Handler order profile bundles the accepted delivery days, the deadline for each of them, how far ahead an order can be placed, the minimum spend and the delivery charge. A customer is assigned one profile and inherits all of it. A bakery that has not opened the page is on a Default profile, which is where the rules come from until a second one exists.

The consequence is that a round moves in one update. Shifting the cafe round from Wednesday to Thursday is a change to the profile, not to each cafe on it. Customers move between profiles in bulk from the order profiles page.

Profiles are capped at 20.

## Every day carries its own deadline

Wholesale Handler stores accepted days one row per day, and a row cannot exist without a deadline - a day you deliver on always has a time by which orders for it close.

The deadline is stored as notice before the delivery day starts rather than as a clock time on a named day. An offset of 420 minutes puts it at 17:00 the evening before. The figure is signed, so zero closes ordering at midnight on the delivery day and a negative offset moves the deadline onto the delivery day itself for same-day ordering.

That is what allows a Monday bake to close on Friday afternoon while a Thursday bake stays open until Wednesday evening, on the same profile. Which times to pick is [setting a wholesale bakery order cutoff](https://wholesalehandler.com/articles/how-to-set-a-wholesale-bakery-order-cutoff).

## What a customer sees on a day you do not deliver

In the Wholesale Handler date picker a day you do not deliver on is present but disabled, reading No deliveries. A day closed by a holiday reads Closed, naming the holiday where you gave it a description. Dates past their deadline and dates beyond the booking horizon are not in the list at all. A line of your own wording sits elsewhere: a customer opening an order that has locked sees it there, so the place to say "Call the office if you need a late change" is that message rather than the picker.

Closures are dated rows. A single bank holiday and a two-week shutdown are the same shape, and both block dates the same way an unaccepted day does.

## Standing orders draw from the same list

When a standing order is created in Wholesale Handler, only days the customer's profile accepts can be picked, so a schedule cannot start on a day the bakery does not deliver.

A schedule already running on a day that is later removed from the profile is a gap. Wholesale Handler does not re-check the accepted-day list at placement, so that schedule keeps placing on the old day until someone changes or cancels it.

## A change applies from the moment it is saved

Wholesale Handler has no future-dated profile change. Removing Wednesday takes it out of the picker straight away rather than from a date you choose, so announcing a change in advance means telling customers directly and making the update when it starts.

## Q&A

**Q: Can two bakery customers have different delivery days?**
A: Yes, by putting them on different order profiles in Wholesale Handler. Days belong to the profile rather than the customer, so customers who share a round share a profile. A single account with days nobody else has can have a profile to itself.

**Q: Can each delivery day have a different cutoff?**
A: Yes. Wholesale Handler stores the deadline per day rather than per profile, and holds it as notice before the delivery day begins rather than as a clock time, so the same profile can carry a long run-up on one day and an overnight one on another.

**Q: What happens to a standing order when I drop a delivery day?**
A: It keeps placing on the old day. Placement does not re-check the accepted-day list, so a schedule created before the change carries on until someone updates or cancels it. Wholesale Handler does not flag the affected schedules or email the customers, so dropping a day means going through the standing orders on it yourself.

**Q: Can I schedule a delivery-day change for a future date?**
A: No. A Wholesale Handler profile change takes effect as soon as it is saved, so making the update on the day it starts is the way to time it.