Yes. Food and drink is a category, and home bakers, spice sellers, pickle makers and sweet shops all sell here.
Two things make it different from selling a saree, and the second one matters more than people expect.
1. The licence is yours to hold
Anyone selling food in India needs an FSSAI licence or registration. Metzee asks for it: FSSAI licence, with the number field FSSAI number and the hint 14 digits, as printed on the certificate.
It holds up only your food listings — the rest of your shop sells while it is being checked. The number also has to be shown to buyers, which is the law rather than our preference.
It catches people who do not think of themselves as food sellers. If you make cakes or gift hampers, you are asked for it even if your store sits under Arts & Handmade. The question is what you sell, not which category you chose.
Getting it is your job, not ours, and it is not expensive for a small home operation. What documents are needed.
2. Delivery is the real constraint
A courier network is not built for something that spoils in two days, and this is where food sellers come unstuck.
Three things to set up properly:
These items spoil on your delivery option. It changes the pickup terms and tells the buyer plainly, and they agree before they bid rather than after they win.
Pickup, or your own delivery, or a short radius. Most successful food sellers here are local. That is not a limitation to work around; it is the shape of the business.
A short Collect within time. The default is 72 hours, which is far too long for a cake. Set it to what the food actually allows.
Made to order, which most food is
A cake is not dispatched in 24 hours — it is made. Use Days to make it, and set the cut-off with Days before the date that orders close, so nobody orders a birthday cake for tomorrow when you need three days.
Cap your day honestly too. "Ten of this cake a day" is a real limit and saying so costs you nothing — buyers are told when you will start on it rather than being turned away. How to cap how much you sell in a day.
Describing it
Ingredients, allergens, how long it keeps, how it should be stored. Not optional information for anything edible, and the one place where a vague description is a safety matter rather than a sales one.
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