For home & cottage bakers
Charge for your hours, not just the groceries.
Free tools for pricing custom orders, costing recipes, taking deposits and keeping track of who’s picking up when. No sign-up. Works on your phone. Your numbers stay on your device.
Five tools, in the order you need them.
Cost the recipe, price the order with your time counted, take the deposit, keep the date straight. Each one works on its own, and they share what you save.
- 01“How much should I charge for this?”Custom order quoteTiers, servings, decorating time, delivery and your hourly rate, turned into a price, a deposit and a quote you can paste into a DM.
- 02“What does this recipe actually cost me?”Ingredient & recipe costEnter what you paid for the bag, the box, the dozen. Save your ingredients once, and every recipe updates when prices go up.
- 03“Who's picking up Saturday, and did they pay?”Order & deposit bookDue dates, deposits, balances and status in one list, sorted by what's coming up. Export to a spreadsheet any time.
- 04“What do I say when they cancel the day before?”Deposit & cancellation policyPick your rules once. Get a short version for Messenger and texts, and a full one for your order form.
- 05“How many people does an 8-inch feed?”Servings & pan guideWilton's party and wedding servings, which tiers feed your guest count, and how to scale a recipe to a different pan.
“I usually sell my cakes pretty low to my friends and family.”
“I feel like I’m undercharging a lot in some cases.”
“I totally thought I made a profit… I’m in the hole like $60.”
The math nobody shows you
A $60 cake feels like double the grocery bill.
The receipt says $34, so $60 looks like a profit. But the receipt isn’t the whole cake. There’s the board and the box, the topper, the drive, and the six and a half hours you spent on it, counting the shopping and the dishes.
Put a modest $20 an hour on that time and the same cake costs about $200 to make. Priced at $245, it pays you and leaves a little for the next mixer. Priced at $60, you paid to bake it.
- Flour, butter, sugar, eggs, filling$34.00
- Cake boards, dowels, box$14.00
- Topper, gold leaf$8.00
- Delivery, 12 miles at 70¢$8.40
- Gas, power, wear on the mixer$5.00
- Shopping, baking, stacking, decorating, dishes: 6.5 h at $20$130.00
- What the cake really costs$199.40
- Charged $60, you take home−$11.20
- Your time is a line item.Every quote shows what you earn per hour at the price you’re about to send.
- Prices you actually paid.No made-up averages. Type in your receipt once and reuse it.
- Deposit first, then the date.Each quote works out the deposit and the balance date, and writes the policy for you.
The toolkit
Prefer a spreadsheet you own?
The same pricing, recipe costing and order tracking in Excel and Google Sheets, with a filled-in example to copy from. One payment, no subscription, 14-day refund.