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Sign up on the Sign Up for Stable page. Your business is created as soon as you submit the form, with no application to wait on. Then you finish a short setup for your kitchen before it can take your own orders. The video above walks through the whole flow.
Sign up and set up your kitchen
1. On the Sign Up for Stable page, create your account. Enter your email, your first name, your mobile phone, and a password, then click Create Account. Last name is optional. If you already have a CaterCow account, click Login instead.
2. Once you’re signed in, the page asks about your business. Enter your Restaurant name.
3. Under Kitchen address, start typing your address, then pick it from the list of suggestions. You can add more kitchens later.
4. Choose your Primary cuisine, then enter your Website. It must
start with https://.
5. Choose your Cancellation policy. It sets how much notice a customer must give for a full refund, from Flexible (1 day) to Very Strict (5 days).
6. The last question, Ownership, is optional. Check any that apply, or leave them blank.
7. Click Create My Restaurant. Your business is created right away, and you land on your Kitchens page.
8. Your first kitchen is listed under Inactive kitchens. It can’t take orders until you finish its setup. The Setup column shows how many steps are done; hover over it to see what’s left.
9. Click Finish Setup to work through each step. Kitchen information is already done, so next come Business hours, Delivery, Menu, Team, In-house settings, and Payment, where you start your Stable subscription. Click the Continue button at the bottom of each step to move on, or Finish later to come back to it at any time.
10. At the top of the page, your kitchen shows Setting up. On the last step, click Publish my page. Your kitchen goes live and can start taking your own orders.
How Stable setup works
- Your kitchen can’t take orders until you finish its setup. You can come back to it at any time. For help with each step, see How do I set my business hours?, How do I update my menu?, How do I manage my team on Stable?, How do I verify my identity with Stripe to get paid?, and How do I add and manage my bank accounts?. If a step still shows as missing after you’ve filled it in, see Why isn’t my kitchen showing up for customers?
- You don’t have to finish every step yourself. A teammate with the Admin or Finance role can complete identity verification and add a bank account. See What can each role on my team see and do?
- You can change your cancellation policy later on your Business Details page.
The marketplace is a separate step
Your Stable account is for taking your own orders. Being listed for CaterCow customers to find is a separate step that we review. When your kitchen goes live, click Apply to the marketplace, or later turn on The CaterCow marketplace in your kitchen’s Kitchen information step. Either one adds a Marketplace settings step. Your kitchen needs a bank account verified through Stripe and a menu approved by CaterCow, and our team turns on your marketplace listing. Until then, Marketplace shows Off or In review on your Kitchens page. To learn how the marketplace review works, see what happens after you apply to the marketplace.