“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
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 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.
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 · 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.
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
“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
“Thanks to Cottage CMS, I was able to setup my site and start taking orders quickly and efficiently with the Square and Venmo transaction capabilities!”
Esther
Owner/Baker, E. Lee's Sweets
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
Easy to use!
“Cottage CMS made it easy to make our website!”
katie k
Owner, KatieBird Bakery
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
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
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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. 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
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