BakeCost: bakery orders

xlstudio

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About this app

BakeCost replaces your notebook: take orders, cost your recipes, get paid on time, and keep your pantry stocked — all from your phone.

Built for home bakers and small bakeries ready to leave spreadsheets and sticky notes behind.

PRICE IT RIGHT
• Add your ingredients with what you actually paid for them
• Build recipes with exact quantities
• BakeCost works out your true cost and suggests a price at the margin you want
• Compare sizes side by side to see which one really pays
• It flags an unpriced ingredient before it quietly under-costs your cake

STAY ON TOP OF ORDERS
• Book orders with date, time, items and deposits
• Calendar view to see your whole month at a glance
• "Production day" lists everything you're baking plus one combined shopping list
• Repeat a past order in one tap
• Automatic reminders the day before and 2 hours before delivery

RECIPE BOOK AND SCANNER
• Keep your recipes with their steps, separate from your inventory
• Turn any recipe into a product when you're ready, ingredients already loaded
• Scale a recipe to another yield or tin without redoing the math
• Scan a recipe (BakeCost Pro): photograph a recipe and the app pulls out the ingredients and steps for you to review before saving

KEEP YOUR PANTRY IN CHECK
• Stock levels per ingredient with your own reorder point
• Alerts before you run out
• A shopping list built from your pending orders — and fully editable: add items, fix quantities, tick off what you bought

GET PAID, EVERY TIME
• Clear stages: quote → confirmed → in production → ready → delivered → paid
• Log partial payments and deposits
• Outstanding balance always in view
• Send quotes over WhatsApp or as a PDF with your business logo on it

CUSTOMERS, EXPENSES AND NOTES
• Full order history for every customer
• Call or WhatsApp them straight from their card
• Track rent, utilities, wages and the rest of your overhead
• Loose notes for ideas, family recipes and supplier numbers

REPORTS THAT MAKE SENSE
• Revenue, profit and margin for any period
• Best-selling products and best customers
• How your week is going, at a glance

YOUR ONLINE STORE (BAKECOST PRO)
• Publish your catalog on your own page: bakecost.app/t/your-store
• Customers browse your products and send you an order from their phone
• Every request lands in your orders list, ready for you to confirm
• You settle payment with your customer the way you always have (cash, transfer…)

FREE, AND NO ACCOUNT NEEDED
• Costing, orders, pantry, shopping list, customers, expenses, quotes, the recipe book and your period reports: free, offline, no sign-up
• Backups on your own device, plus CSV export
• Your business logo on your quotes, also free
• Dark mode, and the app in English and Spanish
• No analytics, no ads: your data is yours

WITH A FREE ACCOUNT
• Back your data up to the cloud and restore it on a new phone

BAKECOST PRO (optional)
• Live sync across all of your devices
• Your online store for taking orders
• Premium quote templates, with your product photos in the PDF
• Exclusive brand colors
• Scan a recipe from a photo

Made for cake decorators, pastry chefs, artisan bread bakers and cottage-food dessert businesses.

What’s new

BakeCost 2.1 — your recipe book, and a shopping list you can finally edit.
• Recipe book: save recipes with their steps and turn one into a product whenever you want
• Import a recipe from a photo (Pro): snap it and the app pulls out ingredients and steps for you to review
• Editable shopping list: add, fix and tick off what you like
• We now warn you when an unpriced ingredient leaves your cost incomplete
• Expense categories in your language
Everything works offline; an account is optional.