Online ordering for juice bars and smoothie shops

Online ordering for a juice bar lets customers build a smoothie on your own link, book a cleanse pack for tomorrow, and pick it up or get it delivered, with the money going to your own Stripe account. Menuthere takes no commission. Smoothies get sizes and boosts; bottled juice and cleanse packs get a booking with notice, so you press only what's been ordered. The Free plan takes 50 orders a month; Lite, at $17 a month, adds unlimited orders, card payments and booked pickups.

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Smoothies vs bottled juice: two ways to sell online

A juice bar's menu has two kinds of product, and online ordering should treat them differently.

Setting them up separately means the blender line sees smoothies as they come in, and the pressing team sees tomorrow's bottles in one list.

The smoothie build sheet

Everything in this table is on the Free plan. An option's price is added once for each pick, and with More than one of each on, double protein reads "Plant protein ×2" on the ticket and counts as two of the three boosts.

Smoothies carry the allergens customers ask about most: tree nuts in almond milk, peanuts in peanut butter, milk in whey and yogurt, soy in some proteins. Mark each item's allergens and calories on the dish. Customers see them when they open it. Name the base clearly ("Almond milk") because an add-on option has no allergen mark of its own. For a printed version by the register, use the free allergen chart maker.

Cleanse packs and bottled juice, booked with notice

Bottled juice is pressed in batches, so you want orders before you press. Menuthere's Dishes that need notice (Lite) does that:

1. In Prebooking settings, set Which orders can be prebooked to Specific items and tick your cleanse packs and bottles.
2. Set Earliest booking time to 1 day, so a pack can't be booked for sooner.
3. Under Only made on, pick your pressing days, for example Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
4. Choose Fixed time ranges for pickup, such as 7:00 to 11:00 AM.

A basket of only those items must be booked for a date that meets the notice. If a customer puts a cleanse pack and a smoothie in the same basket, Menuthere asks them to split the order, because the pack has its own date. Booked orders wait in the Prebookings tab, so the evening before you can see exactly how many bottles of each flavor to press.

If you want single bottles to be orderable at any time while they last, leave them out of the notice list and switch the flavor off when the fridge is empty.

The FDA rules that change when you bottle or wholesale

Juice has its own federal rules. Two of them matter for how you sell online. This is a summary, not legal advice; your state and county health department may add their own rules.

1. The juice HACCP rule (21 CFR Part 120). It applies to juice "processing", and the rule says processing does not include "the operation of a retail establishment". A retail establishment is defined as an operation that "provides juice directly to the consumers", and the definition excludes one that also sells or distributes juice to other businesses. So a juice bar that sells only to its own customers, at the counter or through its own online ordering, is a retail establishment. One that also supplies bottles to a gym, a café or a grocery store isn't, and the HACCP rule applies.

2. The warning label for untreated juice (21 CFR 101.17(g)). The label of any juice that hasn't been processed for a 5-log (100,000-fold) reduction in the pertinent pathogen must carry this statement, in a hairline box, with "WARNING" in bold capitals:

FDA's guidance on the warning label says a retail processor that is exempt from HACCP but doesn't achieve a 5-log reduction is still not exempt from the warning. In practice that means your bottled raw cold-pressed juice needs the warning on its label, whether it's sold from the fridge or delivered.

Online, add it to the description too. Menuthere has no special juice-warning field, but every dish has a description customers see when they open it. Put the same warning there for each raw bottled juice, so customers ordering online see it before they pay, not only on the bottle when it arrives.

Delivery for cold drinks

Menuthere's distances are set in kilometers: 2 miles is about 3.2 km, 3 miles about 4.8 km. A smoothie with ice melts faster than a bottle, so many juice bars deliver smoothies only within a short radius and bottles farther. You can switch a dish off for delivery while keeping it for pickup.

What it costs: a worked example

A juice bar takes 600 online orders a month at $11 on average ($6,600), plus 40 three-day cleanse packs at $135 ($5,400).

Big orders are where your own link pays most. A $135 pack costs $4.22 in Stripe fees on your link, against $33.75 at 25%. With your own ordering you also pay for delivery, either your driver's time or an Uber Direct fee you pass to the customer at checkout. App rates are from our DoorDash and Uber Eats pages. To cost a recipe, try the recipe cost calculator.

Ingredient check, September 2026. BLS average US retail prices: navel oranges $1.72 a pound, lemons $2.13 a pound, bananas $0.66 a pound. Your wholesale prices will be lower, but if a 16 oz orange juice takes about 2 lb of oranges in your press, the fruit alone is roughly $3.45 at retail prices. Weigh your own yield.

Not a fit if

• You wholesale to other businesses through the same system. Menuthere is built for orders from consumers, not for invoicing a gym's weekly case.
• You need auto-renewing subscriptions. There's no recurring billing; customers book each pack.
• Your POS must receive online orders by itself. There's no ready-made link to Square, Toast or Clover.

Taking orders by message already? See how juice bars take orders on WhatsApp. In the US, WhatsApp sends order updates, not promotions: Meta doesn't deliver marketing messages to +1 numbers, so use email for offers. Also serving coffee? See online ordering for coffee shops.

Set up online ordering for your juice bar

1. Create your store. Find your juice bar on Google to fill in your name, address, hours and photos.
2. Build the smoothies. Add sizes, a required base, a capped boosts group and a required sweetener choice.
3. Mark allergens and calories. Tick tree nuts, peanuts, milk and soy where they apply, and add kcal.
4. Add the bottles and packs. Put the untreated-juice warning in each raw juice's description.
5. Turn on notice for packs (Lite). Specific items, 1 day's notice, your pressing days and morning pickup ranges.
6. Set delivery. A short radius in km, a packaging charge for insulated bags, or your own Uber Direct account.
7. Connect Stripe and test. Book a cleanse pack for Wednesday and check the Prebookings tab.

Smoothies and cleanse packs from your own link, 0% commission.

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