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.

See live shops· Free forever No credit card

Built by a real cottage baker

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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

Featured

Strawberry jam

$12

Featured

Brown butter cookies

$18

New order · Square

+$42.18

Pickup window

Sat · 9–11am · 12 left

Active members

1,700+

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

Paid

Brown 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

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 another two dozen smaller workflows — recipe importer, QR codes, blog, customer CSV import, digital products, plugins, and more.

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Setup

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

Square payments out of the box

Recipe costing & pantry margins

Custom orders & quoting forms

Partial

Email · Pro push · text notifications

Partial

Prepaid event marketing texts

Cottage food templates & local SEO

Apps you have to install

∞

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 case Compare platformsSee how Cottage CMS stacks up against common tools

Real 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.

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

kissdbakeryllc.com

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

moofcakes.cottagecms.com

“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

rizzomicrobakery.com

“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

janetscookiejar.com

“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

sentinelfamilyfarm.com

Amazing website features!

“I am in the process of setting up my business. Having Cottage CMS in my corner makes me feel confident that this will be successful. I am amazed at all of the improvements. It is obvious this is a tool built by a cottage baker for cottage bakers. I love opening my email to see yet another improvement I had no idea I needed, but now I see how helpful it is. Thank You!”

Carla

Owner, Hummingbird Heritage Treats and Gifts

hummingbirdheritage.com

“CottageCMS completely transformed my cottage bakery. Since launching my Crust & Crumb website, my reach has expanded, orders have increased, and my baking workflow is smoother than ever.”

Angie

Owner, Crust & Crumb

crustandcrumbva.com

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

sweetsavourbakingroom.com

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Founder

Drew Meyer

Co-owner, Family Kneads cottage bakery

Read my story

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 1,700+ 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

Visit fkbakery.com

Founding members

The first to bet on us.

Lifetime members who shaped the platform. We owe them a lot.

Martins Bakery

Spencer, IN

Tanda LLC

Gluten free baked goods

Ashland City, TN

Family Kneads

Sourdough Breads, Scones, Cookies, & More! All made with traditional methods and simple ingredients.

Boerne, TX

Meet the founders

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

Preview

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

Compare all Scale features Start Pro before launch

Pro

Free

Forever

A 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

Compare all Free features Start free

See full pricing details Compare every feature

Scale preview · annual savings · payment processing fees

FAQ

Answers, no fluff.

Still have questions?

Email a real person — we usually reply within an hour.

Talk to us

Join 1,700+ 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.

Create your free site See real cottage food shops

No credit card · cancel any time · keep your content if you downgrade

Look establishedbefore you feel established.

See live shops· Free forever No credit card

Made by a cottage bakerfor cottage bakers.

Real cottage bakery

Built and used at Family Kneads — we eat our own cooking.

Community-driven

Roadmap shaped weekly by 1,700+ 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

Visit fkbakery.com

Look establishedbefore you feel established.

The way you actually sell.

One calendar. Everything date-bound.

Every way buyers want to pay.

Sell what you can actually bake.

Know your margins.

Email alerts, Pro push and text.

Pin to the home screen.

Three steps. One afternoon.

Claim your shop name.

Drop in your menu.

Take orders today.

Replace 6+ apps with one platform.

Quiet wins from busy kitchens.

Made by a cottage bakerfor cottage bakers.

The first to bet on us.

Start free. Choose Pro before Scale opens.

Scale

Pro

Free

Answers, no fluff.

Do I need any technical skills?

How fast can I take my first order?

What's actually included in Pro?

Can I switch plans or downgrade?

Is there an annual discount?

What payment methods can my customers use?

Your kitchen is the product.Let everything else run itself.

Look establishedbefore you feel established.

The way you actually sell.

One calendar. Everything date-bound.

Every way buyers want to pay.

Sell what you can actually bake.

Know your margins.

Email alerts, Pro push and text.

Pin to the home screen.

Three steps. One afternoon.

Claim your shop name.

Drop in your menu.

Take orders today.

Replace 6+ apps with one platform.

Quiet wins from busy kitchens.

Made by a cottage bakerfor cottage bakers.

The first to bet on us.

Start free. Choose Pro before Scale opens.

Scale

Pro

Free

Answers, no fluff.

Do I need any technical skills?

How fast can I take my first order?

What's actually included in Pro?

Can I switch plans or downgrade?

Is there an annual discount?

What payment methods can my customers use?

Your kitchen is the product.Let everything else run itself.