Free forever plan · 1,300+ 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
Active members
1,300+
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
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
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.
Recipe · Sourdough
73.2% margin · per unit
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."
Order confirmations, pickup & delivery reminders, and pay-as-you-go event marketing — across all three channels.
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 another two dozen smaller workflows — recipe importer, QR codes, blog, customer CSV import, digital products, plugins, and more.
Browse all featuresSetup
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.
Compare 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.
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
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
“The best platform out there for cottage bakers. Super easy to use and fantastic customer support!!”
Jill Miller
Owner, Journeys End Sourdough
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
“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
“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
Easy to use!
“Cottage CMS made it easy to make our website!”
katie k
Owner, KatieBird 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 1,300+ 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
Lifetime members who shaped the platform. We owe them a lot.
Pricing
The free plan is a complete shop — not a trial. You only move to Pro unlocks custom-domain support, delivery, loyalty, and the rest.
Bring your own domain, delivery, loyalty, push notifications, and the rest.
$240≈$16.67/mo · two months on us
Cancel anytime · downgrade to Free, keep your content
A complete starter shop you can stay on as long as you like.
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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
