“Easy to use and simple to understand! Drew is super awesome!”
Thomas
IT, Yum Yum Cookies and Treats
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
2,184
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, recipe costing — every workflow cottage food sellers know by heart, baked 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.
Recipe · Sourdough
Cost
$2.41
Price
$9.00
Margin
$6.59
73.2% margin · per unit
Recipe costing
Know your margins.
Pantry + recipe tools that auto-calc cost-per-unit.
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 publishing a menu and handing off an order—whether the sale starts online, at a market, or with a returning customer.
Explore the full platformpro
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
Customer Segments & Tags
Organize customers with tags and saved segments, then use them for focused outreach.
See how it worksFree core
First-Class Reviews
Collect and display verified customer reviews directly on your storefront.
See how it worksFree core
Back-in-Stock Alerts
Let customers request an email when a sold-out product becomes available again.
See how it worksFree core
Planner Calendar Sync
Subscribe to an external calendar feed for orders, availability windows, and planned work.
See how it workspro
Advanced Analytics
Measure revenue by event, payment fees, order sources, products, traffic, and conversion performance.
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
Recipe costing & pantry margins
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.
You helped me move forward in a way I couldn't the last 2 years
“I've owned a domain name for 2 years and never built a site to use. Always feeling defeated and overwhelmed when I tried to start one. No more! I'm rolling now and taking orders. Whooo hooo!”
Marsha Ceminski
Owner, The Hometown Baker
Great Product, Exceptional Support
“Cottage CMS helped us share our mission, not just our menu. It’s more than an ordering site — it lets you tell your story, connect with customers, and turn one‑time buyers into long‑term supporters.”
Andrew Hauck
Owner & Baker, Side Yard Bakery LLC
“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
“Cottage CMS has made building and managing our micro bakery website simple, professional, and customer-friendly. From thoughtful features like absorbing checkout fees and text messaging to Drew’s mind-blowing support, it is clear this platform was built by someone who truly understands cottage bakers.”
Julissa Rizzo
Baker and co-owner, Rizzo Micro Bakery
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
Great CMS with EXCELLENT support!
“Ease of use and excellent customer support are the reasons I love Cottage CMS. Highly recommend!”
Patricia
Owner, Sweet Pea Home Bakery
“Cottage CMS has helped me start to grow my online platform! Drew has been very helpful and supportive through the whole process.”
Myka
Owner, Myka Makes Sourdough
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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 2,184 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 recipe tool gets battle-tested at our own shop 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.
Coming August 2026
Scale
Use Scale as the price anchor while Pro still preserves full-feature access.
$370/year
$30.83/mo billed annually
Save $74/year
Full-feature access is moving up.
Start Pro before launch to keep today's full feature set while your membership stays active.
- 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
Join Pro before Scale opens to keep today's full-feature access.
Start Pro before launch30-day money-back guarantee · cancel anytime
Free
ForeverA complete starter storefront you can stay on as long as you need.
$0/forever
- Square-powered checkout
- Pre-orders (Drops) & Weekly Schedules
- Public storefront with standard pages
- Physical product catalog
- Product options and order forms
- Customer records connected to orders
See full pricing detailsCompare every feature
Scale preview · annual savings · payment processing fees
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Join 2,184 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