u/Rubberduckey7721

Hey everyone. I’m trying to see if anyone knows of any resources or ideas that could help us right now.

My boyfriend unexpectedly took custody of his 10 month old son this week after the baby’s mother went to jail. He will have him for the next 18 months. This all happened very suddenly, and he wasn’t financially prepared to suddenly become a full-time parent overnight. All the daycares he has looked into are either full or too expensive for him to afford.

Right now he's about $200 short on rent due on the 1st even with me helping him out, I currently live in ohio (yes long distance). Normally my boyfriend works, he's an electrician, but at the moment he has nobody to watch the baby while he works so he hasn't been able to since getting the baby and I’m still in Ohio until June 10th before I can move down to Mississippi to help full time.

He also subleases instead of having a traditional lease and does not have paperwork for that it's all verbal agreement, and my boyfriend doesn’t currently have a social security card, which has made it difficult to qualify for a lot of assistance programs he's tried contacting.

At this point I’m mainly asking if anyone knows of:

• emergency rental assistance that works with subleases

• churches/community organizations that help in situations like this

• baby resources

• temporary childcare resources

• work-from-home opportunities

• honestly anything else we may not know about

He's trying really hard to keep things stable for the baby while adjusting to everything happening so suddenly.

Thank you for reading.

TLDR: I’m building a local grocery/restaurant delivery business on Shopify and want a simple Instacart-style setup using collections/categories like Dairy, Frozen, Snacks, etc. Customers would choose common grocery items and add brand/size preferences through custom fields, but I would NOT be using live inventory or exact pricing. Looking for the cleanest Shopify structure/apps for this without overcomplicating things 😭

I’m building a local grocery/restaurant delivery business on Shopify and I’m trying to figure out the best way to structure my store without making it insanely complicated. I've only been playing around with Shopify for a couple of months so this is all still super new to me.

The current setup I have is a grocery prepayment with variants from $25-300 with fields to insert your list and store my customers want me to shop from and then a separate product with a grocery delivery fee and that takes you to my hoppy appointments page for booking. I'm trying to make my site more user-friendly than what it is to me currently right now. I kind of want like a smaller scale of what DoorDash/instacart does when people click on a store and it has the items they have in stock. I would want all the grocery items on a separate page than my delivery fee products if that makes sense.

What I WANT:

- A “Grocery Shop” page with categories like Dairy, Frozen, Snacks, Drinks, etc.

- Customers click a category and see common grocery items (Milk, Eggs, Bread, Chips, etc.)

- Then they can choose brand/flavor/size preferences through dropdowns/text boxes

- I do NOT need live inventory or exact store pricing right now

- Grocery items would mostly act as a shopping list system and customers would still use a grocery prepayment option

I also offer restaurant delivery, memberships, and delivery fees separately, so I’m trying to keep those on separate pages/collections from the grocery shopping experience itself.

My main questions:

1. What’s the cleanest Shopify structure for this?

2. Should I use collections + collection lists?

3. What apps are best for customizable grocery products?

4. Is there a better way to handle grocery prepayments with $0 products?

5. Has anyone built something similar without custom coding?

I think I’m overcomplicating this in my head and would love advice from people who’ve built service-based Shopify stores because everything I've found online are all for product based businesses which is great but none are specifically what I'm looking for 😭 TIA