Free forever plan · 2,325 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
2,325
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
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
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, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Cash App Pay through Square — plus optional Venmo, PayPal, Zelle, and cash. Connect in 30 seconds.
Window · Spring drop
Cap quantities, set cut-offs, and let availability rules do the work.
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
Reorder · 2 taps
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 featuresCottage 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 platformConnect ingredient prices, reusable recipes, product costs, margins, and bake plans in one optional workflow.
See how it worksSave package prices and units, with optional stock balances, receipts, and low-stock alerts.
See how it worksReuse base recipes, add named ingredient groups, and account for product options without duplicating work.
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 worksCollect and display verified customer reviews directly on your storefront.
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.
“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
“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
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
Top-notch Tech Support!
“For a user who is not a "techie", the tech support is quick and accommodating. This platform has been instrumental in getting my business off the ground!”
Rosalia M.
Owner, Cosa Dolce
“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
“The best platform out there for cottage bakers. Super easy to use and fantastic customer support!!”
Jill Miller
Owner, Journeys End Sourdough
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 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
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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 2,325 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.
Pricing
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
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 preview · 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.
No credit card · cancel any time · keep your content if you downgrade
