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Built by a cottage bakerRun daily cottage food operations with Recipes & Costs, 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.
Recipes & Costs
Product setup never depends on a recipe. Use this workflow when you want to replace cost guesses with reusable production details, clearer margins, and an order-driven bake plan.
Save the package size and price you actually buy. Stock tracking is optional.
Build reusable bases and keep named parts such as cake and frosting distinct.
See cost and margin by sellable unit, including explicit size or quantity options.
Combine selected orders into batches, shortages, and a practical shopping list.
Full feature detail
Get a complete overview of your business schedule in one place. The calendar dashboard shows orders, availability windows, and blocked dates in monthly or agenda views. Filter by location, event type, and date range to stay organized and never miss an order.
The Today view reduces dashboard hunting by collecting the most time-sensitive work in one place. See upcoming orders and fulfillment details alongside operational signals so the next action is clear when production starts.
Turn the order queue into a visual production workflow. Group and move orders by fulfillment status so everyone can see what is new, in progress, ready for pickup or delivery, and complete.
Catch inventory pressure where it matters: inside the exact preorder window or event occurrence that is selling down. Operators can respond before a capped category or product unexpectedly blocks customer orders.
Bring Cottage CMS dates into the calendar you already check. A subscribable calendar feed keeps order and availability commitments visible alongside the rest of your schedule without duplicate manual entry.
Keep your business data portable with structured customer and product exports. Use the files for offline analysis, operational handoffs, or records outside Cottage CMS without copying information one row at a time.
Keep a growing catalog easy to browse by managing its category structure in one place. Operators can organize how products are grouped and presented without editing every product just to change storefront navigation.
Replace repeated password entry with a passkey protected by the device you already use. Passkeys improve account security while making routine access to the business dashboard faster.
Import customers from CSV while preserving existing unsubscribe records and avoiding unsafe merges. Map email, phone, text consent, extra fields, and loyalty point balances; imported email customers can initialize newsletter and notification preferences from the same customer record.
Understand what is working across revenue by event, payment fees, order sources, top products, page views, and conversion behavior. Connect Google Analytics and Meta Pixel for broader attribution, then use event-level reporting to compare markets, drops, and recurring sales.
Start with ingredient cost and a target margin, then add detail only when it helps. Build reusable recipes, combine them with grouped product-specific ingredients, and see the live cost to make each product. Packaging, labor, and overhead stay tucked under optional costs. Suggested prices are advisory and only change a storefront or Square price when you explicitly apply them.
Keep the ingredients and supplies you buy in one catalog with package size, price, category, and measurement details. Add density or a custom conversion only when a recipe needs it. Pantry stock tracking is optional: record an opening balance or receipt when you are ready, review price history, and let completed orders deduct tracked ingredients without blocking fulfillment when information is incomplete.
Build a base recipe once and use it across products, or compose a product from multiple recipes and direct ingredients. Named groups keep components such as Cupcake and Frosting distinct. Stable variant and custom-form mappings can adjust quantities or include flavor-specific ingredients, while the customer-facing ingredient statement remains separate until you review and publish it.
Choose the orders you plan to make and combine their exact product requirements before rounding reusable recipe batches. Plan a bake shows product quantities, ingredient totals, tracked stock on hand, shortages, packages to buy, estimated spend, and unresolved setup warnings. Generate one combined preparation and shopping PDF without changing the exact quantities used for fulfillment inventory.
Stay on top of your business with push notifications delivered directly to your phone or desktop. Get alerted instantly for new orders, customer messages, low inventory, and more — even when you're not looking at your dashboard.
Present a professional image with a dedicated business email address. Send and receive emails directly from your dashboard with your business identity. Keep your personal inbox separate while maintaining organized business communications.
Keep the domain-branded business inbox more useful with safeguards around inbound messages. Sender checks and spam controls reduce noise and make it easier to focus on legitimate customer communication.
Paid expansion
Free and mixed features handle the launch path. Pro adds deeper control, automation, and repeat-customer tools; Scale adds advanced capacity for established operations.
Compare plan pricingBring customer lists into Cottage CMS with email consent, text opt-in mapping, and loyalty point seeding.
Measure revenue by event, payment fees, order sources, products, traffic, and conversion performance.
Receive instant push notifications when new orders arrive, messages come in, or inventory changes.
Get YourBakery@mail.cottagecms.com to communicate professionally and keep personal email separate.
Protect the business inbox with sender checks and controls for suspicious messages.
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