One-stop cottage foodie shop
“I started my business weeks before last Thanksgiving, and Cottage CMS was here just in time to get me accepting orders immediately.”
Mark Schauer
Owner, Second Shift Bakery
Built for cottage food
Look establishedbefore you feel established.
Stop 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.
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SweetFern Bakery
Serving Austin
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SweetFern Bakery
Serving Austin · Est. 2024
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Featured
Sourdough loaf
$9
Featured
Strawberry jam
$12
Featured
Brown butter cookies
$18
New order · Square
+$42.18
Pickup window
Sat · 9–11am · 12 left
Live storefronts
2,648
audited count · see how
Coverage
US + Canada + Mexico
regional storefront support
Avg. setup
30 min
first order in hours
Uptime
99.99%
so you never miss an order
Built for cottage food workflows
The way you actually sell.
Preorders, pickup windows, lead times, custom orders, and optional Recipes & Costs tools — every workflow cottage food sellers know by heart, built into one platform. No apps to install. No plugins to configure.
Saturday · May 17
Planner
OrderWindowEventTask
9:00a
B. Smith
2× sourdough · pickup
10–6p
Spring drop window
cut-off Fri 6pm · 42/50 sold
11:30a
River Park farmers market
public · setup 11am
1:15p
M. Williams
Strawberry jam ×3 · pickup
3:00p
Restock bread flour
task · @home
Planner
One calendar. Everything date-bound.
Orders, preorder windows, public and private events, and tasks — all on a single planner the whole kitchen can read at a glance.
Order #1284
PaidBrown butter cookies×6$24.00
Sourdough loaf×1$9.00
Total$33.00
Tap to pay · Square
CardApple PayG PayCash App
Square checkout
Every way buyers want to pay.
Cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Cash App Pay through Square — plus optional Venmo, PayPal, Zelle, and cash. Connect in 30 seconds.
Window · Spring drop
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Cut-off · Friday 6pm42 / 50 sold
Pre-order windows
Sell what you can actually bake.
Cap quantities, set cut-offs, and let availability rules do the work.
Product · Sourdough loaf
Cost
$2.41
Price
$9.00
Margin
$6.59
73.2% current margin · per loaf
Recipes & Costs
Know what each product costs.
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."
Customer notifications
Email alerts, Pro push and text.
Automated email shop alerts are available on Free. Pro adds browser push and credit-backed event texts.
9:41
SweetFern Bakery
Reorder · 2 taps
Order again
App-like experience
Pin to the home screen.
Customers add your shop to their phone home screen and reorder in two taps. No App Store, no downloads.
And dozens more — gift cards, market checkout, fulfillment boards, customer reviews, restock alerts, QR codes, digital products, and more.
Browse all featuresNew across the platform
More of the business,one system.
Cottage CMS now covers more of the work between buying ingredients and handing off an order—whether you need a reusable recipe, product margin, shopping plan, or a smoother sale.
Explore the full platformFree core
Recipes & Costs
Connect ingredient prices, reusable recipes, product costs, margins, and bake plans in one optional workflow.
See how it worksFree core
Ingredients & Pantry Stock
Save package prices and units, with optional stock balances, receipts, and low-stock alerts.
See how it worksFree core
Reusable Recipes & Product Formulas
Reuse base recipes, add named ingredient groups, and account for product options without duplicating work.
See how it worksFree core
Bake Planning & Shopping
Turn selected orders into batch totals, ingredient demand, stock shortages, and packages to buy.
See how it workspro
Gift Cards & Store Credit
Sell digital gift cards and issue store credit that customers can redeem at checkout.
See how it workspro
Market Checkout
Run a mobile-friendly market menu with QR ordering, live inventory, and Square checkout.
See how it worksFree core
Order Fulfillment Board
Move orders through a Kanban-style board from new to ready and fulfilled.
See how it worksFree core
First-Class Reviews
Collect and display verified customer reviews directly on your storefront.
See how it worksSetup
Three steps. One afternoon.
Step 01
Claim your shop name.
Pick yourshop.cottagecms.com or bring your own domain. Live in seconds.
Step 02
Drop in your menu.
Add products, prices, photos, and pickup windows. Cottage food templates do the layout for you.
Step 03
Take orders today.
Connect Square, share your link, and your next batch is already half-sold.
No app-stack tax
Replace 6+ apps with one platform.
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.
Capability
Cottage CMS
Insta DMs
Shopify + apps
Preorder windows & cut-offs
Partial
Pickup scheduling, lead times, blackouts
Partial
Partial
Square payments out of the box
Recipes, product costs & bake planning
Custom orders & quoting forms
Partial
Partial
Email · Pro push · text notifications
Partial
Prepaid event marketing texts
Cottage food templates & local SEO
Apps you have to install
0
∞
6+
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
Quiet wins from busy kitchens.
Tap any shop below to read their story — and see a real cottage food site running on Cottage CMS.
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
Best tailored Cottage Bakery Site!
“Cottage CMS provided me with concierge customer service indeed! Thank you, Mr. Drew, for showing a genuine concern about helping me with the issues that I was having in setting up my page. I truly appreciate it!”
Tonya Johnson
Owner, Head Baker, Sweet Savour Baking Room
“Cottage CMS is easy to use, fully customizable to your brand, and provides lots of features you would have to pay additional for on other platforms. It is very obvious that it was designed by a small business owner for a small business owner.”
Tammy
Owner, Sentinel Family Farm
Everything I need to be successful!
“Cottage CMS puts everything I need to create a online storefront, and what I needed on the business to record sales at my farmstand. The site is super easy to use with explanations and guidance if you get stuck or need clarification. They really are there to help you succeed. I recommend them to anyone looking for a website, POS, and more!”
Laura Wynn
Owner, Wynn's Sweet Treats
“Pre-orders are so much easier using Cottage CMS!”
Sarah Hanson
Owner, Sweet Sarahndipity Bakery
“Cottage CMS is helping me grow.”
Adriauna Christian
Owner, Nu ImageSweetz
Exceptional Support and SO user friendly!
“Who knows better what Cottage Bakers need in a platform than a cottage baker! Cottage CMS has everything I need on a user-friendly platform.”
Amber A LeClaire
Owner, MoofCakes
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Built from inside the community
Made by a cottage bakerfor cottage bakers.
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 2,648 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
Founding members
The first to bet on us.
Lifetime members who shaped the platform. We owe them a lot.
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Pricing
Start free. Choose Pro before Scale opens.
Free is a real storefront, not a trial. Pro is the move for most shops now, and Scale shows where the full-feature tier is headed.
Full feature tier
Scale
Expanded tools for businesses ready for the full feature set.
$370/year
$30.83/mo billed annually
Save $74/year
- Everything in Pro
- $10 monthly Text messaging credits
- Unlimited Locations
- Nationwide Shipping
- Domain-Branded Email
- Custom CSS
Pro
Most PopularThe best current move for custom domain, checkout controls, marketing, and growth tools.
$200/year
$240$16.67/mo billed annually · two months on us
- Everything in Free, plus
- Custom Domain
- Custom Pages
- Delivery Options
- Shipping Options
- QR Codes
- Text Messaging
- Business Email
- Blog Posts
- Digital Products
30-day money-back guarantee · cancel anytime
Free
ForeverA complete starter storefront you can stay on as long as you need.
$0/forever
- Professional cottage food website
- Square-powered checkout
- Pre-orders and availability windows
- Pickup fulfillment
- Product options and order forms
- Recipes, ingredient costs, and bake planning
See full pricing detailsCompare every feature
Scale preview · annual savings · payment processing fees
FAQ
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Still have questions?
Email a real person — we usually reply within an hour.
Join 2,648 live cottage food storefronts
Your kitchen is the product.Let everything else run itself.
From DMs to organized orders. From hobby-feeling to professional presence. A free shop in five minutes — purpose-built for cottage food.
No credit card · cancel any time · keep your content if you downgrade