For home cooks · plate sales · caterers · repasts & cookouts
Stop taking orders in your DMs. A designed website, a real order page with pickup windows and cutoffs, your own business line, and payment links that hit before the plates do.
Not just an order link
Everything a plate-sale cook or caterer runs a business on — set up for you the day you sign up, all under your name.
Not a template with your name pasted in. A designed one-page site with your menus, story, gallery, and ordering — built for your business and live on the internet the same day. Change your pickup hours by text and the site updates itself. (This one belongs to a caterer on the platform.)
Pickup windows and order-by deadlines built in — your headcount locks before you shop for groceries.
Sizes, half-trays, “no onions” — real menu options with real prices, priced into the order automatically.
Weddings, repasts, reunions — a deposit locks the date, and the balance link goes out by itself before the event.
A dedicated number for calls and texts — your personal cell stays personal.
Texts, calls, and website chat answered 24/7 in your voice — orders taken, questions answered, you looped in.
Say “Maria’s order is ready” — she gets the text. Out for delivery, ready for pickup, all automatic.
Every order confirms through a secure payment link, straight to your bank through Stripe. Tips ride along when customers offer.
Set the zips you deliver to and what each zone costs. Outside the zone? The assistant offers pickup instead.
Every customer, order, and payment in one place — regulars can even say “the usual.”
How it works
Your menu, your prices, your pickup windows. Done.
A designed website, an order page with pickup windows, your own business line, and payments to your bank — stood up for you the same day. Drop the link in your bio and let it cook.
Payment links confirm every order before you shop for groceries. Event deposits and final-count cutoffs built in.
Built for how plate sales actually work
Set your pickup date and your cutoff — “order by Friday for Sunday pickup.” Every order prepays through a secure link, so your headcount is real and your groceries are covered. Catering an event? Take a deposit now — the balance link texts itself to the customer before the event, right when the final headcount locks.
Live demo — not a mockup
This is a live demo kitchen running on StartMyOwn — the same AI your customers would text. Ask what's on the menu.
Powered by the same AI that answers your customers by text, phone, and web chat.
Everything in the box
Your plan grows with you. Here's what's on from day one — and what unlocks as you do.
Your own website
A live, professional site for your business
AI answers texts, calls & chat
Your receptionist that never sleeps
Get paid to your bank
Card payments settle straight to you
Online ordering
Take orders for pickup or delivery
Pickup windows & cutoffs
Only take orders you can actually fill
Sold-out toggle
86 an item in one text when you run out
"The usual" reorder
Regulars repeat their last order in one tap
Tips
Add a tip line at checkout
Age / consent gate
Require an age or consent check before checkout
Menu modifiers
Sizes, add-ons and options on any item
Event dates & deposits
Big catering orders with a lead time + deposit
Order tickets & status texts
Customers get a text as their order moves
Multiple chairs & staff
Per-person services, hours and bookings
Your own domain
Put your site on your own web address
Payment plans
Let customers pay a big ticket in installments
Multiple locations
Separate hours, staff and menus per location
Team payouts
Track what each staff member is owed
Pricing
Full access from day one — your site, your number, your assistant. Cancel anytime during the trial and pay nothing.
For plate sales & pop-ups
For a busy kitchen
For a full operation
Questions
Cottage-food laws in most states allow home food sales — and they keep expanding. StartMyOwn gives you the professional storefront; you follow your state’s cottage-food rules.
Three ways, all yours: the order page link (drop it in your bio), texting your business number, or the chat on your site. The AI handles all of them.
Before you cook. Orders confirm only when the payment link is paid, straight to your bank through Stripe.
Yes — event-date orders with deposits are built in. The deposit locks the date, and the balance link goes to the customer automatically a few days before the event, right when you confirm the final headcount.
Your call. Set the zip codes you deliver to and the fee for each zone — the assistant adds the fee automatically and offers pickup to anyone outside your area.
Text is the fastest way — but your dashboard shows the same kitchen: live order tickets (tap “Ready” and the customer gets texted), your pickup hours, zones, and event rules, all editable. Same engine, your choice of steering wheel.
Every plan starts with 14 days free — full access, no card needed today. Then Cook is $29/mo, Kitchen $49/mo for a busy operation, Restaurant $79/mo for the full spread. Cancel anytime.
14 days free. Live in an afternoon. Yours — the customers, the number, the money.
Start free trial — open my order page14 days free
Two quick steps: create your account, then our setup assistant interviews you about your business — by text or right here in the browser — and builds your site from your answers.
Our setup assistant will ask about your services, prices, and vibe — then build your website from your answers. About 2 minutes, your choice where:
We just texted you — check your phone and reply whenever you’re ready. Same assistant, same result.
Setup assistant
Prefer your phone? We texted you — you can switch to SMS anytime.