How to make an app for a sweet shop

In Diwali week a sweet shop takes hundreds of orders on slips of paper: 20 boxes of kaju katli for an office, 500 laddoos for a wedding, a pickup at 7 PM. An app keeps that order book by date, tells the halwais how many kg to make each day, and shows which advances and pickups are still pending.

Updated 2026-11-09

Who uses the app

The owner and the counter. If the halwai's section or a second counter needs the same order list on another phone, connect your own Supabase database so everyone sees the same orders.

The screens a sweet shop app needs

Orders by date: Festival and wedding orders for each day, with pickup or delivery time, advance paid and balance
New order: Customer, sweets by kg or pieces, gift box size and count, name card text and pickup time
Making list: Kg of each sweet to make tomorrow, added up from all orders, plus your usual counter stock
Gift boxes: Boxes needed by size and type for the coming days, so packing starts early
Pickups: Today's orders waiting to be collected, with a call or WhatsApp button for late ones
Rate list: Price per kg and per piece for each sweet and namkeen, used in every order
Sales: Orders and advances by day, and festival totals compared with last year's figures you enter

Features worth asking for

Orders priced from the rate list by weight or pieces
A day's making list in kg for each sweet, totalled from all orders
Advance and balance on every order, with a WhatsApp message to confirm
An order slip as a PDF to share or print for the packing table
A gift box count by size before each festival
Company orders with the name to print on the box card
Pending pickups at closing time

Where the data lives

If only the counter phone uses the app, the data can stay on that phone. If the halwai section or a second counter checks orders on their own phones, connect your own Supabase database; to take festival advances online, connect your Razorpay account too.

How to make it with AppCub, step by step

Decide what the app does. List the screens you need, for example: Orders by date, New order, Making list, Gift boxes, Pickups.
Describe it to AppCub. Paste the request below, changed to your own business and details.
Check the plan. AppCub shows the screens and features it will build. Change them in the chat until they are right; seeing the plan is free.
Try it on your phone. The app runs live next to the chat. Scan the QR code to install it, and ask for changes.
Share it. Share it as a web link, an APK file, or publish it on Google Play from your own developer account.

Copy this request, change the details to match your sweet shop, and paste it into AppCub:

Make an app for my sweet shop, Gupta Mishthan Bhandar in Meerut. Screens: orders by date, new order, making list, gift boxes, pickups, rate list and sales. Orders are sweets by kg or pieces, or gift boxes of 250 g, 500 g and 1 kg, priced from my rate list. Each order has an advance, a balance and a pickup date and time. The making list adds up the kg of each sweet needed tomorrow. Show today's pickups not yet collected, with a WhatsApp button. Make an order slip PDF. Saffron and maroon colours, Hindi labels.

Tips for a sweet shop app

Start the app a month before Diwali, not in Diwali week, so the counter is used to it.
Enter the rate list first; every order and every total depends on it.
Ask for Hindi labels and sweet names in Hindi if your counter staff read Hindi more easily.
Decide how you write weights, kg or grams, and use one way everywhere.
Keep one test order and go through it from booking to pickup before the season starts.

What it costs

Describing your app and seeing AppCub’s plan for it is free.
A new app usually takes 60 to 110 credits. Start with the 2-day trial for ₹99 (150 credits, enough for one app and a few changes) or the one-time App Pack for ₹499. Starter is ₹1,599 a month for 700 credits.
Google Play needs a paid plan (it includes the Play Store bundle and your app’s signing key) and your own Google Play developer account, a one-time US$25 fee to Google.
Work that fails or is rolled back costs no credits.

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Good to know

AppCub doesn't connect to weighing scales, billing machines or label printers, and it doesn't send automatic messages. Weights are typed in, and slips are printed as a PDF from the phone.
AppCub builds Android apps. You can also share the app as a web link that opens on any phone; for the iPhone App Store, AppCub’s team can do it for you.

Questions

Can a sweet shop app tell the halwai how much to make?

Yes. The making list adds up the kg of each sweet across tomorrow's orders, and you can add your usual counter stock on top.

Can the app keep Diwali advance payments?

Yes. Each order has the advance paid and the balance, and the pickups screen shows what is still to collect.

Can I take wedding orders for 500 laddoos?

Yes. Orders can be in pieces or kg, with a date months ahead, and they appear on the making list for the right day.

Can the app connect to my weighing scale?

No. AppCub doesn't connect to scales or billing machines. The counter types in the weight, and the price is worked out from the rate list.

Can I compare this Diwali with last Diwali?

If you enter last year's totals, the sales screen can show them next to this year's. From the first season on, the app keeps its own figures.

Can the app be in Hindi?

Yes. Ask AppCub for Hindi labels and sweet names; the counter staff will use the app more easily.

Make your sweet shop app

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