Announce a small batch of ceramics, prints, or handcrafted goods to your audience. Collect explicit, capacity-locked reservations, validate real pre-production demand, and organize scheduled pickups.
Simulate a limited artisan pottery run. Test capacity lock enforcement, oversell prevention, production decision freezing, and pickup handovers.
BatchBasket provides strict pre-production safety without premature payment fees or overselling.
Multi-variant lock ordering prevents race condition deadlocks. Reservations can mathematically never exceed declared craft capacity.
Anonymous carts cannot hold or deplete maker stock. Buyer email verification is required before any capacity allocation is recorded.
When reservations open, price, cutoff, and pickup policy are frozen. Mid-flight term changes require closing and explicit buyer reconfirmation.
Manifest exports automatically escape formula starter symbols (=, +, -, @) with leading quotes to protect makers opening spreadsheets.
Embed dynamic, high-DPI capacity verification badges on your maker website, Substack, or social linktree.
No percentage of sales, no customer account requirement, zero external runtime dependencies.
For hobbyists testing their first small release.
For working potters, printmakers, and jewelry studios.
For established studios with multiple makers.
For cooperatives, makerspaces, and craft collectives.
Key design decisions and operational answers for makers.
No. BatchBasket records bounded reservations to validate demand before you purchase materials. Payment, if arranged outside the system (e.g., cash or card on local pickup), is handled directly by the maker.
When reservations close, the maker evaluates the frozen totals. If demand falls short of your minimum viable threshold, you simply click "Cancel Production" and notify buyers with zero payment dispute friction.
Reservations lock variant capacity atomically using sorted variant IDs. If 10 units are declared, the 11th requested unit is mathematically rejected with a clear remaining count.
Yes. Buyers receive a private unguessable secret link upon reservation, allowing them to cancel before the cutoff deadline, which automatically releases capacity back to other buyers.