# Bakery preorders and custom cakes handled without the order book.

## 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](https://pushbuild.com/services/booking-systems.html) [Stripe integration and billing](https://pushbuild.com/services/stripe-integration.html)

### Holiday preorders

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

[Booking and scheduling systems](https://pushbuild.com/services/booking-systems.html)

### Morning bake list

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

[Python scripts and utilities](https://pushbuild.com/services/python-scripts-utilities.html) [Google Sheets and Apps Script automation](https://pushbuild.com/services/google-apps-script.html)

### Pickup reminders

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

[n8n, Make and Zapier automation](https://pushbuild.com/services/workflow-automation.html)

### Order calendar

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

[n8n, Make and Zapier automation](https://pushbuild.com/services/workflow-automation.html)

### Sales by item

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

[Dashboards and reporting](https://pushbuild.com/services/dashboards.html)

**Bakeries software we work with:** [Square](https://pushbuild.com/tools/square.html), [Toast](https://pushbuild.com/tools/toast.html), [Shopify](https://pushbuild.com/tools/shopify.html), [Clover](https://pushbuild.com/tools/clover.html), [Square Online](https://pushbuild.com/tools/square.html).

**And the general tools around it:** [Wix](https://pushbuild.com/tools/wix.html), [Squarespace](https://pushbuild.com/tools/squarespace.html), [WordPress](https://pushbuild.com/tools/wordpress.html), [Google Sheets](https://pushbuild.com/tools/google-sheets.html), Instagram.

**Public data we can wire in:** [Restaurant Inspections](https://pushbuild.com/apis/restaurant-inspections.html).

## 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](https://pushbuild.com/audit.html).

## 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.

## Related

[**Coffee shops**Online ordering, wholesale orders, subscriptions, inventory and sales reporting for coffee shops and roasters, connected to the tools you already use..](https://pushbuild.com/for/coffee-shops.html)[**Restaurants**Online ordering, reservations, menu updates, catering enquiries and daily sales reporting for restaurants, connected to your POS and the tools you already use..](https://pushbuild.com/for/restaurants.html)[**Catering**Quotes, orders, menus, prep lists, delivery schedules and invoicing for caterers, connected to the tools and accounting you already use..](https://pushbuild.com/for/catering.html)[**Grocery stores**Online ordering, price and stock updates, weekly specials and supplier orders for independent grocers, butchers and delis..](https://pushbuild.com/for/grocery-stores.html)

## 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.

[hello@pushbuild.com](mailto:hello@pushbuild.com?subject=Bakeries%20project)

[(617) 299-8887](tel:+16172998887)

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As of 2026-11-05. Source: https://pushbuild.com/for/bakeries.html