The Cottage Baker's Tech Stack

The Cottage Baker's Tech Stack

A no-nonsense guide to running your bakery's ordering, payments, and customer tracking — without a developer, without a big platform contract, and without duct-taping ten different apps together.

If you've spent hours comparing ordering platforms hoping one of them does everything, this guide saves you that search. Inside, you'll get a clear stack of cheap (often free) tools mapped to exactly what a cottage bakery needs — plus the things most bakers don't know to plan for until it's too late (taxes, labeling rules, no-show policies, and more).

What's inside:

• A step-by-step tech stack for storefront, payments, and order tracking
• A decision worksheet for evaluating any tool before you commit
• Ready-to-use templates: order tracker, recipe costing calculator, repeat-customer discount framework, no-show policy language
• The compliance and business basics that don't show up on any wishlist — until they bite you

Written by a fellow cottage baker who's done the research so you don't have to.