Food Truck Owner
A preorder form that closes Saturday morning and a prep dashboard that tells you exactly what to make.
You park at a weekly farmers market every Saturday. Some weeks you sell out of birria by noon and turn people away. Other weeks you toss 30 veggie bowls. The problem is not the food -- it is guessing demand. You want people to preorder before you fire up the grill so you know exactly how many of each item to prep.
“I need people to preorder tacos before I show up at the market on Saturday”
Create a preorder form with name, phone, menu items, pickup time, and an auto-close deadline
curl -X POST https://sutrena.com/api/forms \
-H "Authorization: Bearer st_live_k7xM9..." \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"name": "Saturday Market Preorder",
"fields": [
{ "name": "name", "type": "text", "required": true },
{ "name": "phone", "type": "phone", "required": true },
{
"name": "items",
"type": "multiselect",
"required": true,
"options": [
"Birria Tacos x3",
"Al Pastor x3",
"Veggie Bowl",
"Horchata"
]
},
{
"name": "pickup_time",
"type": "select",
"required": true,
"options": ["11 AM", "12 PM", "1 PM"]
}
],
"closesAt": "2026-03-07T10:00:00-07:00"
}'→ A preorder form that accepts orders all week and automatically closes Saturday at 10 AM, giving you an hour to prep before the market opens at 11.
Create a prep dashboard with item counts and total orders
curl -X POST https://sutrena.com/api/dashboards \
-H "Authorization: Bearer st_live_k7xM9..." \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"name": "Saturday Prep Dashboard",
"formId": "frm_d4e5f6",
"version": 1,
"widgets": [
{
"type": "metric_card",
"title": "Total Orders",
"aggregate": "count"
},
{
"type": "bar_chart",
"title": "Items to Prep",
"groupBy": "items"
}
]
}'→ A dashboard you check Saturday morning. One glance tells you: 22 orders total, 18 birria, 14 al pastor, 9 veggie bowls, 16 horchatas. You prep exactly what you need and waste nothing.
Square and Toast have preorder features, but they cost $60+/month and lock you into their payment stack. You just need to know what to cook -- not process payments at order time. Sutrena gives you a form and a dashboard for free. Share the link on Instagram Stories on Wednesday, close it Saturday morning, check the dashboard, and start prepping. Next week, create a fresh form with the same fields and a new closesAt date. An agent could set this up end-to-end — create the form, configure the deadline, and deploy a dashboard — in a single conversation.
You can update the closesAt date on the existing form to reopen it for next Saturday. Or create a new form each week if you want clean submission counts. The free tier gives you 10 projects, and you can delete old ones to make room.
Once closesAt passes, the form shows a closed message. No more submissions come through. You can customize the closed message to say something like 'Preorders are closed -- come find us at Booth 12 at the market!'
Sutrena forms collect order data, not payments directly. But you can embed a Stripe Buy Button, PayPal Payment Link, or similar payment widget on a Sutrena page alongside your form. Most food truck owners prefer to collect payment at pickup anyway. If you need online payment, either embed a payment button on your Sutrena page (see /guides/payment-on-pages) or send a Venmo/Zelle request after receiving the preorder.
Sutrena is the web runtime for AI agents. Three primitives — pages, forms, and dashboards — accessible through one API. Your agent creates web artifacts, humans interact with them, and your agent gets the data back. Framework-agnostic. Works from any MCP client or HTTP client.
1. Get a trial key (no auth, no signup)
curl -X POST https://sutrena.com/api/trial2. Create a form + dashboard from a template
curl -X POST https://sutrena.com/api/forms \
-H "Authorization: Bearer st_trial_xxx" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"templateId": "waitlist", "createDashboard": true}'