Free forever plan · 3,060 shops live · No credit card to start
Built by a cottage bakerCottage CMS connects recipes and product costs with product choices, shared drops, inventory, bake planning, label printing, fulfillment, customer follow-up, and a search-ready website. Start with a capable Free storefront, then add operational detail only when it helps your business grow.
Highest-value workflows
The latest additions connect product choices, shared drops, recipe costing, bake planning, and label printing with the same products and orders.
Price ingredients, reuse recipes, review margins, and turn selected orders into a practical bake and shopping plan.
Drill downCreate reusable product labels, review ingredients and dates, and print PDFs from orders, bake plans, or manual quantities.
Drill downOffer multiple days and locations while sharing one menu and inventory pool. Customers choose the option that works for them.
Drill downBuild mixed boxes, flavors, and paid extras with size-specific counts, pricing, and stock controls.
Drill downPlan-aware features
Feature cards show the plan needed to get started. Mixed labels explain workflows that combine included tools with paid capabilities.
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A complete starter storefront you can stay on as long as you need.
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Core paid tools for a growing cottage food business.
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Expanded tools for businesses ready for the full feature set.
Feature drill-downs
Each category page expands the feature set with Free, mixed, Pro, and Scale labels so sellers can see what is included now and what unlocks as they grow.
Everything you need to sell cottage food online and in person: scheduled ordering windows, Square checkout, gift cards, market checkout, quick sales, product choices, quantity menus, forms, quotes, tax controls, inventory holds, pickup, delivery, and shipping workflows.
View allOffer one drop across multiple dates and pickup locations, with a shared menu, stock limits, and ordering times.
Plan split: The first pickup location is included; additional locations and delivery depend on your plan.
Offer flavors, paid extras, and mixed boxes with clear choice counts and size-specific rules.
Let customers choose quantities from a menu or shop a collection of existing products.
Run a mobile-friendly market menu with QR ordering, live inventory, and Square checkout.
Keep customers connected with first-class reviews, customer accounts, segments and tags, back-in-stock alerts, notes, loyalty, subscriptions, notifications, and targeted outreach tied to the same storefront.
View allCollect and display verified customer reviews directly on your storefront.
Plan split: Collection and display are base capabilities; imports and text requests follow the active plan matrix.
Organize customers with tags and saved segments, then use them for focused outreach.
Plan split: Customer organization is a base capability; outbound channels follow the active plan matrix.
Let customers request an email when a sold-out product becomes available again.
Combine automated email with optional browser push and credit-backed text notifications.
Plan split: Email is a base capability; push and text channels follow the active plan matrix.
Create a professional cottage food website with a visual editor, custom color and font controls, homepage hero layouts, mobile optimization, custom domains, Google Search Console verification, and sitemap submission.
View allVisual editor allows you to customize your site without technical skills. Build a professional cottage food website in minutes.
Choose purpose-built homepage hero arrangements for products, announcements, and brand photography.
Bring your own domain or purchase one during setup, then connect it to your Cottage CMS site.
Verify your site with Google and submit its sitemap from the Cottage CMS dashboard.
Run daily cottage food operations with Recipes & Costs, Label Studio, ingredient and pantry tracking, bake planning, a Today dashboard, fulfillment board, calendar sync, exports, and event-level analytics. Recipe setup is optional, so sellers can start simple and add cost detail when it becomes useful.
View allConnect ingredient prices, reusable recipes, product costs, margins, and bake plans in one optional workflow.
Design reusable product labels and print the right quantities from orders, bake plans, or a manual run.
Availability update: Beta. Design and setup use a desktop; selecting labels, generating PDFs, and reprinting work on a phone.
Bring in recipe text or a recipe URL, review ingredients and yields, and optionally create a product draft.
Turn selected orders into batch totals, ingredient demand, stock shortages, and packages to buy.
Publish blog posts and custom pages, send newsletters and multi-channel announcements, build social proof, create trackable QR codes, and reward members who share Cottage CMS.
View allSend branded newsletters and category-based emails outside of a single event or order.
Pro and Scale members can earn recurring account credit by referring new Cottage CMS subscribers.
Plan split: Available to active Pro and Scale members.
Create customized QR codes with scan tracking. Set custom colors, embed logos, and wrap in frames.
Create unlimited blog posts with our rich block editor. Share recipes, stories, and connect with customers.
Build the shop first
Free gives sellers a real site and operating flow. The live plan matrix keeps Pro and Scale availability aligned with the current rollout as more advanced tools become useful.
