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Bakery preorders and custom cakes handled without the order book.

Bakeries and dessert shops live on early mornings, custom orders and holidays that bring a rush of preorders. The paperwork is the problem: cake requests by phone and email, pickup times on sticky notes, and a bake list worked out by hand. We connect your point of sale and website so orders, deposits and the morning bake list come from one place. The scope is agreed in writing first.

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Sound familiar?

What bakeries and dessert shops tell us before a project starts.

Public business listings show 1,302 independent bakeries and dessert shops in Massachusetts, and 20% are listed with no website. Source: Pushbuild crawl of Overture Maps place listings, October 2026. Chains excluded.

  • Custom cake requests arrive by phone, email and Instagram.
  • Holiday preorders are written in a paper book.
  • We bake too much of some things and run out of others.
  • Customers forget pickup times and orders sit unclaimed.
  • Deposits for big orders are chased by hand.

What we build

Each one is a working piece you can open and check when it's done.

Custom order form

One form for cakes and large orders that asks for the date, size, flavours and photos, and takes a deposit.

Booking and scheduling systems Stripe integration and billing

Holiday preorders

Preorders taken online with pickup slots, closing automatically when you are full.

Booking and scheduling systems

Morning bake list

Preorders and usual daily sales turned into the next morning's bake list by item.

Python scripts and utilities Google Sheets and Apps Script automation

Pickup reminders

A text the day before and the morning of each pickup, with the time and address.

n8n, Make and Zapier automation

Order calendar

Every custom and preorder on one calendar the whole team can see.

n8n, Make and Zapier automation

Sales by item

Sales by item and day of week, so the bake list gets closer to demand.

Dashboards and reporting

Bakeries software we work with: Square, Toast, Shopify, Clover, Square Online.

And the general tools around it: Wix, Squarespace, WordPress, Google Sheets, Instagram.

Public data we can wire in: Restaurant Inspections.

Example projects

Illustrations of the shape of the work, not past clients. Yours gets its own written scope.

Example project

Cake requests in one place

Example: a bakery's cake requests from the website and Instagram all arrive as one form, with a deposit taken.

Form, Stripe, email

Example project

Thanksgiving pie slots

Example: holiday pie preorders close automatically once every pickup slot is full.

Square Online, pickup slots

Example project

Bake list by 5am

Example: the night before, the head baker gets a list of what to bake from preorders and usual sales.

POS export, Google Sheets

Not sure where to start? Start with an Automation Audit.

Questions people ask first

Will this work with our register?

Most bakery registers share sales and orders. We check yours before scoping.

Can customers still order by phone?

Yes. Staff can enter phone orders into the same form so everything lands in one place.

Can we stop taking orders when we are full?

Yes. Each day or pickup slot can have a limit.

How do we start?

Tell us how orders reach you today and where they get lost. We reply with questions or a written scope.

Tell us what you need built.

Email a few lines about what you want and which tools you use, or call. We reply with questions or a written scope.

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