Free forever plan · 3,183 shops live · No credit card to start
Built by a cottage bakerStop running your cottage food business through DMs, spreadsheets, and Google Forms. Cottage CMS gives you a professional storefront, preorder system, pickup scheduling, and Square payments — built around how cottage food sellers actually sell.
SweetFern Bakery
Serving Austin
SweetFern Bakery
Serving Austin · Est. 2024
Sourdough loaf
$9
Strawberry jam
$12
Brown butter cookies
$18
New order · Square
+$42.18
Pickup window
Sat · 9–11am · 12 left
Live storefronts
3,183
audited count · see how
Coverage
US + Canada + Mexico
regional storefront support
Getting started
Free
no credit card required
Hosting
Included
managed hosting and HTTPS
Built for cottage food workflows
Shared drops, product choices, custom orders, recipe costing, and product labels connect the work of selling with the work of making. Start with the tools you need and add detail as your shop grows.
Saturday · May 17
Planner
B. Smith
2× sourdough · pickup
Spring drop window
cut-off Fri 6pm · 42/50 sold
River Park farmers market
public · setup 11am
M. Williams
Strawberry jam ×3 · pickup
Restock bread flour
task · @home
Orders, preorder windows, public and private events, and tasks — all on a single planner the whole kitchen can read at a glance.
Order #1284
PaidCards and supported digital wallets through Square, plus optional external methods such as Venmo, PayPal, Zelle, and cash.
Window · Spring drop
Offer several dates and pickup locations with one shared menu and stock pool. Set ordering times and cap what you can make.
Product · Sourdough loaf
73.2% current margin · per loaf
Start with ingredient cost and a target margin. Add reusable recipes, pantry stock, labor, and overhead only when useful.
Order confirmed · receipt sent
Push
Pickup ready in 10 minutes
Text
"Hi B! Pickup tomorrow at 9am."
Automated email shop alerts are available on Free. Pro adds browser push and credit-backed event texts.
9:41
SweetFern Bakery
Your shop · on the home screen
Customers can add your shop to their phone home screen on supported devices and open it like an app. No App Store installation needed.
And dozens more — recipe import, quantity menus, fulfillment boards, customer reviews, restock alerts, QR codes, digital products, and more.
Browse all featuresCottage CMS now covers more of the work between buying ingredients and handing off an order: product choices, shared pickup drops, recipe costs, shopping plans, and reusable printed labels.
Explore the full platformConnect ingredient prices, reusable recipes, product costs, margins, and bake plans in one optional workflow.
See how it worksDesign reusable product labels and print the right quantities from orders, bake plans, or a manual run.
See how it worksOffer flavors, paid extras, and mixed boxes with clear choice counts and size-specific rules.
See how it worksTurn selected orders into batch totals, ingredient demand, stock shortages, and packages to buy.
See how it worksSell digital gift cards and issue store credit that customers can redeem at checkout.
See how it worksRun a mobile-friendly market menu with QR ordering, live inventory, and Square checkout.
See how it worksMove orders through a Kanban-style board from new to ready and fulfilled.
See how it worksOffer one drop across multiple dates and pickup locations, with a shared menu, stock limits, and ordering times.
See how it worksSetup
Pick yourshop.cottagecms.com or bring your own domain. Live in seconds.
Add products, prices, photos, and pickup windows. Cottage food templates do the layout for you.
Connect Square, share your link, and your next batch is already half-sold.
No app-stack tax
Generic builders make you bolt on plugins for preorders, pickup scheduling, forms, reviews, costing, and analytics. Cottage CMS ships with the workflows cottage food sellers actually need.
And you can swap from your current setup in an afternoon. Most sellers had a comparable site live within an hour of signing up.
Square Free vs Square PlusSquare processes cards. Cottage CMS should run the storefront.Cottage CMS uses Square for credit and debit payments. Keeping Square Free is the logical setup when Cottage CMS Pro gives you the website, loyalty, marketing, and multi-location ordering layer.Square Plus$49/moper locationPro annual$16.67/mowhen billed annuallyRead the Square value caseCompare platformsSee how Cottage CMS stacks up against common toolsReal sellers · real revenue
Tap any shop below to read their story — and see a real cottage food site running on Cottage CMS.
Game-Changer for Cottage Food Businesses
“Cottage CMS has made running my business easier by saving me time and keeping everything simple and user-friendly. I love the Square integration and can’t wait to see what Drew comes up with next!”
Michelle Scott
Owner, Rolls & Wrinkles Bakery
Amazing website features!
“I am in the process of setting up my business. Having Cottage CMS in my corner makes me feel confident that this will be successful. I am amazed at all of the improvements. It is obvious this is a tool built by a cottage baker for cottage bakers. I love opening my email to see yet another improvement I had no idea I needed, but now I see how helpful it is. Thank You!”
Carla
Owner, Hummingbird Heritage Treats and Gifts
“Cottage CMS was with me step by step as I built my website for my new business! Definitely one of the best decisions I have made for my small business!!”
Janet Cammerrer
Owner, Janet’s Cookie Jar
Easy to use!
“Cottage CMS made it easy to make our website!”
katie k
Owner, KatieBird Bakery
Amazing Customer Service
“Cottage CMS has been amazing to work with. Their customer service is incredibly quick, helpful, and knowledgeable. Anytime I’ve had a question or needed assistance, their team has responded promptly and made the process simple and stress-free. It’s rare to find support that is both this fast and genuinely helpful. Cottage CMS truly goes above and beyond to make sure everything runs smoothly. Highly recommend!”
Sharon Stark
Owner, Sugar Nest Cupcakery
“Easy to use and simple to understand! Drew is super awesome!”
Thomas
IT, Yum Yum Cookies and Treats
Incredible User Support
“I was blown away by how easy it was to get my Cottage CMS page set up under my existing business URL thanks to the incredible user support folks. I'm hopeless with technology, but Drew was able to help me get my page up and running just the way I wanted in no time flat!”
Amanda
Owner, Panda Pan Bakery and Sweet Shop
“As a first-time small business owner turning a hobby into a business, I spent months searching for the right platform. Cottage CMS gave me everything I needed in one place and made getting started easy.”
Alexis
Owner, Lex's Little Luxuries
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Built from inside the community
Cottage CMS started as a tool I built for our own home bakery. Every preorder window, every form, every notification exists because real cottage food sellers asked for it through support, trials, and daily shop work.
Real cottage bakery
Built and used at Family Kneads — we eat our own cooking.
Community-driven
Roadmap shaped weekly by 3,183 live cottage food storefronts.
Seller-shaped tools
Features follow real preorder, pickup, and storefront workflows.
Direct line in
Email a real human — usually replied to within an hour.
See Cottage CMS in action.
Family Kneads — our family bakery — runs entirely on Cottage CMS. Every preorder window, push notification, and production-planning tool gets used in a working bakery before it ships.
$10K–$15K
avg. monthly sales
Direct + wholesale
sales channels
100%
on Cottage CMS
Lifetime members who shaped the platform. We owe them a lot.
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Pricing
Free is a real storefront, not a trial. Pro adds growth tools, and Scale adds higher-capacity operations.
Full feature tier
Expanded tools for businesses ready for the full feature set.
$30.83/mo billed annually
Save $74/year
The best current move for custom domain, checkout controls, marketing, and growth tools.
$240$16.67/mo billed annually · two months on us
30-day money-back guarantee · cancel anytime
A complete starter storefront you can stay on as long as you need.
Scale available · annual savings · payment processing fees
FAQ
Still have questions?
Email a real person — we usually reply within an hour.
From DMs to organized orders. From hobby-feeling to professional presence. A free shop in five minutes — purpose-built for cottage food.
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