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Built by a cottage bakerEverything you need to sell cottage food online and in person: scheduled ordering windows, Square checkout, gift cards, market checkout, quick sales, product forms, quotes, tax controls, inventory holds, pickup, delivery, and shipping workflows.
Full feature detail
Accept secure online payments through Square with customer receipts and order records connected to the storefront. Shops can also add external payment methods like Venmo, Cash App, PayPal, Zelle, and cash, configure checkout fee rules and per-method overrides, and automatically nudge customers about unpaid orders.
Plan split: Square checkout and its paid extensions follow the active plan matrix.
Create single or recurring availability windows for your products with flexible scheduling. Configure when orders open, when they close, pickup locations, lead times, blocked dates, and relative open/close rules so repeat windows can run without rebuilding the same drop every week.
Set inventory limits for products, variants, and occurrence categories, then keep customer carts aligned with realtime availability. Product reservation timers protect inventory while a customer checks out, and updates fan out when capped categories or variants change.
Offer local pickup with configured pickup locations, plus delivery zones, distance-based delivery pricing, and shipping rates so customers can choose the fulfillment method that fits the order.
Plan split: Pickup is a base capability; delivery and shipping follow the active plan matrix.
Schedule reminder emails before pickup, delivery, or shipping fulfillment, then automatically follow up when an order still needs payment. Reminder controls live with checkout settings so customer nudges stay tied to order timing instead of a separate marketing campaign.
Drive sales with flexible coupon codes featuring percentage or fixed-amount discounts. Set minimum order amounts, usage limits per customer, expiration dates, and auto-apply rules. Track redemption analytics to measure promotion effectiveness.
Handle custom cake orders, event catering, and specialty requests with a professional quoting workflow. Create detailed quotes with line items and photos, send them to customers for review, and convert approved quotes directly into paid orders.
Build product forms with behavior controls, conditional visibility, rich field types, image upload questions, product catalog fields, and pricing modifiers. Attach forms to products so inspiration photos, flavors, sizes, dates, and special instructions stay connected to the order instead of living in a separate spreadsheet.
Turn happy customers into future orders with digital gift cards, and resolve refunds or goodwill adjustments with reusable store credit. Balances, redemptions, and order history stay connected to the customer record and checkout.
Give market and pop-up customers a fast, focused ordering experience they can open from a QR code. Products, inventory, taxes, payments, and customer records stay in the same system as your online storefront.
Create a lightweight sale from the dashboard when an order happens at the counter, over the phone, or through another channel. The sale still contributes to customer history, reporting, inventory, and fulfillment records.
Protect the economics of small-batch production by setting a clear minimum order subtotal for the shop. Customers see their progress toward the minimum before checkout, reducing back-and-forth and undersized orders.
Set the sales tax behavior that fits your business and local requirements. Cottage CMS calculates tax in the order total and preserves it in receipts and reporting so tax collected does not get mixed into product revenue.
Give custom and manually entered orders a clear payment schedule with deposit and balance due dates. Automated reminders can follow up when payment is still outstanding.
Plan split: Due dates are a base capability; automated reminders follow the active plan matrix.
Create delivery pricing that reflects the real cost of serving different areas. Distance-aware quotes and configured delivery rules help customers choose fulfillment without requiring a manual price conversation for every order.
Put the payment methods you prefer first at checkout and keep the customer choice clear. This is especially useful when a shop accepts Square alongside cash or external payment methods with different fee rules.
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 pricingAutomate pickup reminders and unpaid-order payment nudges.
Create percentage or fixed-amount coupons with usage limits, expiration dates, and minimum order requirements.
Send professional quotes for custom orders. Customers review, approve, and pay — all within your site.
Sell digital gift cards and issue store credit that customers can redeem at checkout.
Run a mobile-friendly market menu with QR ordering, live inventory, and Square checkout.
Quote delivery by route and distance so customers see an accurate fulfillment price.
Choose the order payment options appear so preferred methods are easiest to find.
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Cottage CMS lets new sellers start with a working order flow, add Pro when marketing and fulfillment start paying back, and use Scale for advanced capacity and control.
