Top 8 Hacks to Ensure Successful Cake Deliveries

Elena Oscar
5 min readJul 4, 2019

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Delivering cakes is not comfortable enough as it is considered. Your delivery methods can make or break your cakes. Your all working and money can go wasted in case of the unsuccessful delivery. For successful cake delivery, there are specific issues and lacks that some cake suppliers do not consider and result in loss and damaged reputation in the market. From backing to delivery, there are some points that can be helpful cake providers and make their efforts productive and beneficial. Here are the top eight hacks for delivering your cakes successfully and making your efforts fruitful.

1. Arrange Your Cake Properly:

Most times, the reason for unsuccessful delivery is the inappropriate arrangement of the cakes in the boxes. The proper arrangement of the cakes during cake packaging will help you to deliver your cake in secure manners. Cake construction is also a very important factor that might demolish your cakes if it is not done in the right way.

2. Plan Cake Delivery:

Always delivering anything requires time and plans. The cake delivery also depends upon your planning and understanding the destination; you have to estimate distance, time, and reachability to asked location. You should make a proper plan to deliver your cakes on time without any kind of distraction or disturbance. Planned working always pays off and helps you to get things done on time.

3. Try to Deliver Early:

If you are ordered for a large number of cakes, plan to deliver before the time of the event. You might face an issue like transportation due to heavy traffic or vehicle disorder, so try to complete your baking process 2 to 3 hours early to deliver them in time and in the right order. Late deliveries are never appreciated and can harm your reputation in the market. In order to make it possible, try to keep your required materials available 2 or 3 weeks before the event, get maintained your conveyance. Early delivery will help you to arrange your cakes once more and take care of damaged ones.

4. Bring An Emergency Cake Supply Kit:

Try to bring all the required tools for repairing your destroyed cakes. The cake supply kit will help you to maintain the shape and condition of your cakes. It is very essential because you might need it during delivery, but most of the times you will not require it due to safe delivery. Especially cake decorators and cake boxes require to be repaired due to the improper settlement of the cakes.

5. Contact Key Vendors Early

To process and deliver your cakes, you should contact your vendors in order to get the required items before time. Tell them about your requirements, and get the best quality material for producing your delicious cakes. Contacting vendors will also boost your business as they will refer your services to other people that are not aware of you. For timely delivery and baking, this step is quite essential.

6. Get Sturdy Packaging Boxes:

For the successful cake delivery, it is quite important that you should package them in durable containers. Low quality and cheap cake boxes can demolish your cakes and can create problems in delivering cakes in the right arrangement. It has been observed that low-quality packaging becomes the primary reason for destroying or damaging packaged items. In the case of cakes, it becomes more critical as cakes are not strong enough to resist the problems of packaging.

7. Setting up An Emergency Contact:

During consulting and contracting with your client, get emergency contact in order to make sure timely delivery, and getting instructions about delivery. Calling your contact person and providing them the details about the delivery will help you to get ready for the problems that you might face during delivery.

8. Keep Your Delivery Vehicle Maintained:

Most of the times, shipment gets late due to an unexpected fault occurrence in your delivery cart. Late deliveries can hurt your reputation and might cause a loss in business due to damage of cakes. In order to deliver your cakes successfully and timely, keep your conveyance maintained and ready.

Wrapping it Up

Delivering any product in a safe and secure manner is the dream of every producer, regardless of industry and profession. A large number of people use the tricks as mentioned above or hacks to make sure the successful delivery of their valuable products. In the case of cakes, it becomes more important to deliver them safely and timely. Many people face issues in delivering cakes in appropriate manners due to lack of understanding with needs of the order, mismanagement of time and conveyance. If you are a cake supplier, these hints will be productive and fruitful for your business when you will apply them for successful cake delivery.

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Elena Oscar

I’m an experienced contributor and Digital Marketer at Pak Boxes. I have completed my graduation from the University of San Francisco.