“Total game-changer for my cottage bakery—everything is in one place, nothing gets missed, and my workflow has never been smoother.”
Jenny Cleveland
Owner, Astrid's Kitchen
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
Active members
1,600+
and growing daily
Coverage
US + Canada
all 50 states + Canada
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, push, and text.
Order confirmations, pickup & delivery reminders, and pay-as-you-go event marketing — across all three channels.
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 another two dozen smaller workflows — recipe importer, QR codes, blog, customer CSV import, digital products, plugins, and more.
Browse all featuresSetup
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 · push · text notifications
Partial
Pay-as-you-go 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.
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
Amazing customer service and very open to feedback
“Cottage CMS keeps me organized and gives my customers a wonderful and professional shopping experience. Cottage CMS has been my saving grace!!! Thank you!!”
Angie Crabtree
Owner, A&R Originals
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
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
Lifesaver!
“Several cottage food bakers were left stranded when a well-known ordering platform closed unexpectedly. One day, I was scrolling through my Facebook feed when I saw Andrew's post about creating Cottage CMS. I investigated his personal and business social media pages, certain he was a scammer, LOL! Then I was able to speak with him, and his kindness and concern were genuine, and his expertise was evident. I was sold on him and his new product. Drew is a lifesaver!”
Tisha Rock
Owner, K.I.S.S.'D Bakery, LLC
“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
“Easy to use and simple to understand! Drew is super awesome!”
Thomas
IT, Yum Yum Cookies and Treats
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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 1,600+ cottage food sellers.
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.
Pricing
Start free. Upgrade only when you've outgrown it.
The free plan is a complete shop — not a trial. You only move to Pro unlocks custom-domain support, delivery, loyalty, and the rest.
Pro
Most popularBring your own domain, delivery, loyalty, push notifications, and the rest.
$200/year
$240≈$16.67/mo · two months on us
- Everything in Free, plus:
- Connect a custom domain (buy yours in the dashboard)
- Delivery & shipping fulfillment
- Coupons & discounts
- Order quoting for custom orders
- Live chat with customers
- Email, push, and text notifications (operator + customer)
- Text order confirmations & pickup/delivery reminders
- Pay-as-you-go event marketing texts
- Loyalty rewards program
- Install-to-home-screen app experience
- Blogging & unlimited custom pages
- Advanced analytics & plugins
- Custom color schemes & fonts
- Priority support & business email
Cancel anytime · downgrade to Free, keep your content
Free
ForeverA complete starter shop you can stay on as long as you like.
$0/forever
- Professional cottage food website
- Sub-domain (yourbiz.cottagecms.com)
- Square Payments integration
- Pre-order & availability windows
- Pickup fulfillment
- Customer accounts & order history
- Calendar dashboard
- Recipe costing tools
- Unlimited products
- Mobile-optimized & SSL included
See full pricing details
Side-by-side plan comparison · payment processing fees · add-ons
FAQ
Answers, no fluff.
Still have questions?
Email a real person — we usually reply within an hour.
Join 1,600+ cottage food sellers
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