Early access · coming soon
An order and booking link that works with WhatsApp — so deposits, slots and payments aren’t stuck in a messy chat.
Kaki means buddy. We’re on your side of the chat.
A concept of the chat. Not a live screen.
The messy part
Home businesses in Singapore run on WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok and Carousell. Quiet weeks are fine. Chinese New Year, Hari Raya, and a post that suddenly travels are not.
Messages stack while you bake, lash or teach. Slots get booked twice. Home bakers have capped the day at 20 orders and still worked through the night. A lash artist double-booked a client because she was busy replying to texts — and the client left.
PayNow is how a lot of home businesses get paid. The “receipt” is often a photo of the transfer, and those photos get faked. One restaurant was reportedly shown fake screenshots dozens of times.
You hold the slot, buy the ingredients, or turn someone else away. Then they cancel late, or don’t come. A S$20 deposit dispute has ended in a one-star review.
There’s no signboard downstairs. Instagram, TikTok, Carousell and WhatsApp are the shopfront.
No one will walk past my block and discover my store.
A home-business owner, in The Straits Times.
One home baker lost an account with 5,000 followers to a scammer and stopped taking orders. Your regulars should live somewhere you control.
From reporting, not from OrderKaki customers. Order caps of 20 a day and festive all-nighters: The Straits Times (opens in a new tab). A double-booked lash slot and a S$20 deposit review: CNA (opens in a new tab). Fake PayNow screenshots, reportedly 35 times for about S$4,600: Mothership, 2023 (opens in a new tab). An Instagram account with 5,000 followers lost to a scammer, and the line about walking past the block: The Straits Times, 2022 (opens in a new tab) and The Straits Times (opens in a new tab).
What we’re building
OrderKaki is not live yet. Early access is how we shape these pieces with bakers, studios, tutors and sellers — before anything is switched on.
One page for your bakes, your sets or your class times. Share it in a bio, a status or a reply. Customers choose there. You keep talking on WhatsApp.
OrderKaki is being built to confirm the money really arrived, so a screenshot isn’t the proof. No more squinting at a PayNow photo in the middle of a rush.
A deposit for lashes, a tuition hour or a festive tin. The booking means something before you turn other people away or start the work.
Set how many orders you’ll take, or how many people can book in an hour. Useful when everyone wants the same festive bake — and kinder when visitors would otherwise all arrive at once.
Names and numbers in one place you can export. If an app locks the account, your regulars don’t disappear with it.
Who it’s for
If your customers reach you by chat, this is being built for you.
Cakes, tarts, home cafés, Hari Raya and Chinese New Year rushes. A daily cap for the week everyone messages at once.
Lashes, nails, brows, facials. Slots and deposits, so you’re not double-booked with someone already in the chair.
Private tuition and small classes. Clear slots, instead of rearranging students over a thread of “can change time?”
Crafts, gifts and the things you post on Instagram, TikTok, Carousell or WhatsApp. Buyers on a list you keep.
How it will work
This is the flow we’re building. Joining the list doesn’t turn it on.
It goes where you already talk to customers — a WhatsApp status, your bio, or a reply.
A slot, a cap and a deposit, instead of twenty messages to pin down the same thing.
The payment is confirmed, and the person joins a list that belongs to you. Then you reply on WhatsApp, like usual.
Early access
Free during early access
Tell us who you are. We’ll write when there’s a first version to try — and only about that.
Questions
No. This is an early-access list for a tool we’re still building. Joining doesn’t open a shop or take a payment. We’ll message you when there’s something to try.
That’s not the plan. The link is meant to sit beside the chat you already use — in a bio, a status, or a reply. There’s no new app for them to download.
OrderKaki is free during early access, and we’ll share pricing before launch. The payment check we’re building is there to confirm the money arrived — not to sit in the middle of the transfer.
On this page, the form is checked in your browser and is not sent to a server. When we connect a real list, we’ll say so here, and we’ll only use your details to tell you about early access.