BakersKeep
For cottage bakers who sell at farmers markets

Your menu is already this week’s posts.

BakersKeep prices your cookies from real costs, takes pre-orders, prints cottage food labels, runs your stall, and turns your menu and market dates into the week’s stories and texts. One app, from Monday’s menu to Saturday’s sold-out sign.

Founders: $59 for the first year, then $79 a year, locked for as long as you stay. 100 spots.

Story post: This week’s cookies with prices and a pre-order cut-off Story post: We’re here, with booth number and the tasters' favorite Story post: Sold out, thank you, with the next market date

Made from the menu and market dates. No typing.

TL;DR
  • What to charge per cookie, including your time, stall fee and card fees.
  • Pre-orders with deposits and pay links for Venmo, Cash App, PayPal or a card link.
  • Ingredient and allergen labels with the cottage food statement, printed on a thermal printer.
  • A menu board on your tablet, with photos, live "almost gone" bars, sold-out tags and a sample-and-rate card.
  • Four ready story posts a week, plus one-tap texts to the regulars who asked for them.
  • A website and widgets for the site you already have, with a photo header and your tasters’ comments.
  • A setup to-do that ticks itself, badges that jump to what’s missing, guides, a glossary and a resources page.
At a glance
Best for
Home bakers selling at 1 to 4 markets a month
Instead of
Spreadsheets, Canva, DMs and a notebook
Works on
Phone, tablet and laptop, in the browser
Prints to
Munbyn and other 203 dpi thermal printers
Sells more than cookies
Categories with their own units and packs: cookies by the dozen, bread by the loaf, jam by the jar
Replaces or complements
Replaces the spreadsheet, Canva and the notebook. Works alongside Hotplate, VendorLoop or Homegrown if you use one.
Walkthrough

See it in 90 seconds

Blurred preview of the menu board behind the video placeholder
Video coming soonA real market week, start to finish, filmed at the stall.
How it works

One market week, in order

Set things up once. After that, each day reuses what the app already knows: your recipes, costs, menu, dates and customers.

MondayPrice and post

Know what to charge, then tell people

Enter a batch’s ingredients, your hours and your stall costs. BakersKeep gives the price that pays your wage and a profit, and shows where each dollar goes.

  • Break-even and "supplies only" prices side by side
  • Half-dozen and dozen deals
  • The week’s Menu drop story, ready to share
Price calculator: $3.25 per cookie with a cost breakdown and a market-day forecast
Price it: the price that covers your time and your stall.
WednesdayOrders and texts

Pre-orders in, regulars reminded

Take an order in a minute: items, pickup date, deposit, and a message with your pay links and a QR code. Then text your regulars. Each text opens on your phone with their first name already in.

  • Deposits and balances tracked per order
  • Only people who agreed to texts are listed
  • "Last call" story on cut-off day
Text my regulars: a pre-order reminder and a list of opted-in customers with Text buttons
Text my regulars: one tap each, sent from your own number.
FridayBake and label

Bake to the orders, label to the law

The pickup board totals what to bake from pre-orders. Labels list ingredients by weight, allergens, net weight and the cottage food statement at a readable size.

  • Production sheet and pantry check
  • Cookie, ingredient, coupon, QR and order-seal labels
  • 4×6, 3×3, 2×1 and round sizes
A 4 by 6 inch ingredient label with allergens, net weight and the Florida cottage food statement
Ingredient label, ready for a Munbyn printer.
SaturdayAt the stall

A menu board that sells, a tally that counts

Put a tablet on the table. Customers see today’s cookies, tap to order or pre-order for next week, and try a free sample and rate it. Your automatic coupons kick in on their own, so a dozen pre-ordered gets the deal without asking. Tap Sold out and the board updates. The tally tracks cash and card against your break-even.

  • "We’re here" story before you open
  • Tasting results by cookie, rating and keyword
  • "Sold out, thank you" story when you pack up
Menu board on a tablet with prices, a sold-out tag and a text-to-order QR code
1. Menu board with a text-to-order QR code.
Taster mode on a phone: pick the sample, rate it with faces, answer would you buy it, and tick what stood out

2. Taste test: hand over your phone. Taster mode hides everything else.

Pre-order of a dozen cookies on the menu board with the DOZEN10 coupon applied automatically, saving $6.90

3. Pre-order upsell: a dozen for next week, with DOZEN10 applied automatically.

All weekThe posts

Four stories, already written

Menu drop, Last call, We’re here, and Sold out. Each one pulls your menu, prices, cut-off, booth and next date, in your colors, with a caption and the day to post it. Share goes to your phone’s share sheet; you add the music inside Instagram or TikTok.

Menu drop storyLast call storyWe’re here storySold out story
The Chalkboard look. Butter paper and Brand color are the other two.
Everything included

What’s in the box

Menu board cards with live stock bars: one card says Almost gone, 16 left

Know what’s left New

Each card on the menu board shows a bar from Plenty today to Almost gone, counted from your batches and every sale rung up on any device.

Category settings: cookies by the half dozen, bread by the loaf, jam by the jar with extra label rules flagged

Cookies, breads, jams, each sold its own way New

Every category gets its own unit and pack deals: $3.25 a cookie, 6 for $19.50; $8.25 a loaf; 2 jars for $13. Jams and canned foods get a label-rules warning.

A bakery home page with a full-width cookie photo behind the name, tinted in the brand color

Photos that sell New

A photo for every item on the board, website and widgets, plus a photo header with five tint presets, half or full screen, and a separate phone photo.

The app header in dark mode with large text, and Auto, Light and Dark switches

Easy on the eyes, quick to edit New

Light, dark or automatic, three text sizes, remembered on each device. Double-click any name, description or price to edit it; on a phone, press and hold.

Recipe card with ingredients, batch scaling and bake settings

Recipes and versions

Method, bake times and scaling in grams or cups. Keep every version, tied to how tasters rated it.

Tasting results by cookie with ratings, would-buy counts and keywords

Test new cookies, get honest feedback

Hand out samples with a taster mode that hides everything else. Faces for ratings, "would you buy it?", quick keywords and comments, then results by cookie.

Pantry list with out-of-stock and short-for-market flags

Automatic pantry warnings

Stock is checked against your next market days and pre-orders. Items that will run short, run out or hit their re-order point are flagged, and go straight onto an order list by supplier.

Coupon share screen with caption, QR code and coupon image

Coupons

Percent, dollar and buy-some-get-some codes with limits, plus a QR code and a share image for each.

A ready-made supplier search prompt listing ingredients and prices

AI prompts, only if you want them New

A Copy AI prompt button by every long text box, filled in with your bakery’s details, plus supplier and tasting prompts. The app never sends anything to an AI itself. Rather not? One switch hides them all.

Expense entry form and yearly report options

Taxes made easy

Market sales are saved as income day by day. Add expenses as you go, then hand your preparer a profit-and-loss sheet with every Schedule C line filled in.

Website settings with about text, contact and refund policy

A website, or widgets for yours New

A home page with your photos, menu, market dates and a tasters’ comments slider, plus privacy and terms. Or paste the menu, comments, dates or pre-order box into Squarespace, Wix or WordPress. See a sample

Brand settings with logo, label logo and app icon

Your brand

Your logo, colors and fonts carried onto posts, labels, the menu board and your app icon.

Customize tabs panel with drag handles and show or hide checkboxes

Arrange it your way

Drag tabs into your order and hide what you don’t use. Hidden sections keep their data. Save the layout for every device.

The setup to-do list: steps grouped into phases, some ticked automatically, each with a Go button

A setup to-do that ticks itself New

22 steps in seven phases, from business name to admin PIN. Steps the app can check tick themselves, and every Go button lands on the exact field. Guides, a glossary and resources too.

CSV panel with export, blank template and import for each list

Bulk import and export

Spreadsheet templates for every list, safe imports with a preview, and CSV export anytime.

$59founders’ first year,
then $79/yr

All of it, one price

Every tile on this page is in the app today. Try the full version free for 30 days when BakersKeep opens.

Regular price $149/yr after founder spots are gone

Join the waitlist
Your website

A website that fills itself in

BakersKeep builds a simple home page from what’s already in the app: this week’s menu, your market dates, how to pre-order, and what tasters said. Export it and upload it to any web host, or paste pieces of it into the site you already have.

Sample baker website: header with a Text to pre-order button, this week’s cookies with prices and allergens, a What tasters say slider, market dates and how to pre-order
Scroll the sample site. Every word comes from the app.
The same site on a phone, showing the What tasters say slider with a five-star comment on the Snickerdoodle
  • Menu and prices from your recipes, with allergens and pack prices
  • Market dates with map links, updated when you book a market
  • Text-to-pre-order button and QR code
  • What tasters say: a slider of taste-test comments. Only ones tasters agreed to share and you approved, signed with stars and the cookie, never a name
  • Privacy and terms pages, plus your state’s cottage food statement
  • Already have a site? Paste the menu, testimonials, market dates or pre-order box into Squarespace, Wix or WordPress. Plain HTML, works on every plan, nothing to move
Three promises

Try all of it. Take all of it. Keep your recipes yours.

Data freedom

Your lists go in and out in bulk, whenever you want.

  • Import in bulk: bring your menu, customers, recipes, ingredient prices, pantry, suppliers and more from a spreadsheet. A blank template for every list.
  • Safe imports: you see a preview first; imports only add and update, never delete, and Undo is right there.
  • Export anything: 13 lists to CSV, plus a full backup file. Free plan included, and for 30 days after you cancel.

Covered lists

Menu & pricesOrdersCustomersCouponsMarkets & datesToday’s salesTasting feedbackTestimonialsRecipesIngredient pricesPantry stockSuppliersExpensesFull backup (JSON)

Full-version trial

Every feature for 30 days. No card.

  • Nothing held back: pricing, pre-orders, labels, the menu board, posts and texts, through at least two market weekends.
  • No surprise charges: we never ask for a card to start, so nothing renews on its own.
  • After 30 days: upgrade, or stay on the free plan. Nothing is deleted, and everything comes back the moment you upgrade.

Starts when BakersKeep opens. Founders on the waitlist skip straight to their locked price.

Recipe vault

Your recipes are trade secrets. The app treats them that way.

  • PIN-locked: an admin PIN guards recipes, costs, prices and exports.
  • Never on the stall tablet: shared devices get names, prices and allergens only. The recipes never download there.
  • Marked and logged: printed cards, production sheets and recipe exports are stamped Confidential, and each one is recorded in a log you can check.
  • Versions that remember: keep every version of a recipe, tied to how tasters rated it.
Honest comparison

Do you need BakersKeep, or something else?

Some bakers are better served by another tool. Here’s where each one wins, including where we don’t.

FeatureHotplateVendorLoopHomegrownDo it yourself
Cost to you$59 first year for founders, then $79/yrFree to you; customers pay 5% + $0.55 plus card feesFree sign-ups; texting $29, $59 or $99/moAbout $10/mo$0, or $144/yr for Canva Pro
Customers pay onlineCheckout in the app: not yet.Yes: Custom pay links and QR codes for Venmo, Cash App, PayPal or card work now.Yes: Drops with checkoutNoYes: Weekly menu with paymentsDMs and Venmo
Texts to customersYes: One tap each from your phone, name filled inYes: Automatic sale alerts and pickup remindersYes: Automatic night-before remindersNot statedBy hand
Posts made for youYes: Four stories a weekNot foundNoNoCanva, by hand
What to chargeYes: Full cost and price calculatorNoNoNoSpreadsheet
Cottage food labelsYes: Thermal printer readyNoNoNoCanva or a label app
At the stallYes: Menu board, tally, tastingsYes: Pickup managementYes: QR sign-up signsYes: PickupPaper
Pantry, recipes, income & expensesYes: Yes, with full import / exportNoNoNoSpreadsheets
Join the waitlistCompetitor features and prices come from their own pages, checked September 29, 2026. "Not found" means the pages we read didn’t say. Tell us if something has changed and we’ll fix it.
vs HotplateOnline drops and automatic texts, or the whole market week?Read the comparison

Pick Hotplate if you sell in drops and want customers to check out online. It’s free for you, texts your list when a sale goes live, and sends pickup reminders on its own.

Pick BakersKeep if your week runs around market days: pricing, labels, the stall, the pantry and the week’s posts.

Use both if you do online drops and markets. Hotplate for checkout, BakersKeep for everything behind the table.

Where we fall short: no online checkout yet, and texts go out one tap at a time.

vs VendorLoopReminders that send themselves, or posts plus one-tap texts?Read the comparison

Pick VendorLoop if your list is big and you want reminders sent without you, from a dedicated number, starting at $29 a month.

Pick BakersKeep if you text a few dozen regulars from your own phone and want the posts, pricing and labels too.

The line: past a hundred or so regulars, one-by-one texting gets old. That’s when to add VendorLoop.

vs HomegrownA $10 order page, or the back office behind it?Read the comparison

Pick Homegrown if all you need is a link where customers order and pay, with items that close when they sell out.

Pick BakersKeep if ordering isn’t the hard part and everything around it is. Homegrown says it won’t help you grow Instagram; BakersKeep makes the posts.

Use both if you want online orders now.

vs doing it yourselfCanva, a spreadsheet and your phone.Read the comparison

Keep doing it yourself if you sell once a month, your prices are settled and your system works. Canva is free and your phone can text.

Switch if the same chores eat your week: retyping the menu into every post, guessing prices, rebuilding labels, digging through DMs.

You give up Canva’s endless templates. Our posts come from a few set designs in your colors, on purpose.

Try this: time one week of posting, pricing and labeling. If it’s more than two or three hours, BakersKeep pays for itself in the first month.

What it would cost separately

Twelve apps, or one

What each job costs with a popular standalone app, and the time it takes you by hand each week.

BakersKeepWhat it doesSeparate app (plan)Time back each weekLearning timeCost per year
Price your cookies from real recipe costsBakeProfit Pro~25 min30 by hand, 5 with us~2 honce$69
Pre-orders with depositsBakesy Standard~40 min60 by hand, 20 with us~1.5 honce$120
Ingredient and allergen labelsFood Label Maker Basic~35 min45 by hand, 10 with us~2 honce$348
Menu board on a tablet, with live stock levelsYodeck Basic, 1 screen~18 min20 by hand, 2 with us~1.5 honce$96
Coupons and loyaltyLoopy Loyalty Starter~8 min10 by hand, 2 with us~1 honce$250
Texts to your regularsEZ Texting Launch~20 min30 by hand, 10 with us~1.5 honce$240
Weekly story posts and menusCanva Pro~50 min60 by hand, 10 with us~2 honce$144
Taste-test feedbackTypeform Basic~15 min20 by hand, 5 with us~1 honce$300
Pantry stock and low-supply warningsSortly Advanced~25 min30 by hand, 5 with us~1.5 honce$288
Income, expenses and taxesWave Pro~20 min30 by hand, 10 with us~2 honce$190
A website, or widgets for yoursWix Light~13 min15 by hand, 2 with us~3 honce$213
QR codes that you can updateUniqode Starter~5 min5 by hand, 0 with us~0.5 honce$108
Twelve separate appsabout 4.6 hoursevery weekabout 19.5 hoursonce
plus about 6 h to train each helper
about $2,366
BakersKeep, all of it, connected4.6 hours backabout 1.4 hours of upkeep left, down from 5.9about 3 hoursonce, one app to learn
1.5 h to train a helper
$59 founders’ first yearthen $79/yr
Notes on prices and times

Prices from each company’s pricing page, checked September 30, 2026, billed yearly where offered. Texting adds carrier fees; the menu board price is per screen. Times are our estimates, not measurements: 30 minutes to 3 hours to sign up for and learn each app, as listed (3 hours to set up BakersKeep), and about 8 minutes to update each of five places (menu board, labels, website, posts and order form) when a price or item changes, and 6 hours to teach a helper the booth’s separate tools (till, order list, pay links, menu board, punch cards, feedback) against 1.5 hours for BakersKeep. Vacation comparison: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, paid vacation after one year of service. Plans change, so check before you buy. BakersKeep isn’t affiliated with these companies.

What’s your time worth?

Time goes four ways: the weekly jobs, learning twelve apps, keeping them all up to date, and training someone to run your booth so you can take a day off. Pick your week and the pay you want.

4.6hours back a week
184hours back in the first year
23days off you get back, at 8 hours a day
$3,680your time, at your rate, in the first year

Pricing

One price. Every feature.

And it pays for itself in one market.

BAKERSKEEP · FOUNDERS

First year

$59 / year one
then $79/yr, locked while you stay

  • Every feature on this page
  • Hosted app with sync across devices
  • Online payments when they ship
  • Founders’ say in what’s built next
  • Setup help by email
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Founders$59, then $79/yr

For the first 100 bakers on the waitlist. The $79 renewal stays the same as long as you keep your plan.

Regular price$149/yr

After founder spots are gone.

Refunds30 days

If it doesn’t fit your week in the first 30 days, you get your money back.

When you payNot today

Joining the waitlist is free. We’ll email you when founder spots open, with the price locked.

Not a founder?30 days free

When BakersKeep opens, everyone gets the full version free for 30 days, no card. Then upgrade or keep the free plan.

It pays for itself in one market

$60Price it right

Knowing your real cost per cookie lets you charge what it’s worth. Just 50¢ more on 120 cookies is $60.

$78Two more pre-orders

One tap texts your regulars the week’s menu. Two extra dozens at $39 is $78, paid before you bake.

$20+Fewer leftovers

The market-day forecast and pantry warnings size the batch to your pre-orders, so less goes home unsold.

The first example alone covers a founder’s $59 first year. Every market after that is yours.

Examples to show the math, not promises. Your prices, volumes and results will differ.

Built and coming

What works today, and what’s next

BakersKeep was built alongside a working cottage baker in Miami, and it’s being readied for her market stall now. Here’s where it stands.

Working now
  • Pricing, recipes, versions and scaling
  • Orders, deposits, pay links and QR codes
  • Labels for thermal printers, with your state’s statement
  • Menu board with photos and live stock, tally and tastings New
  • Website, photo header and embeddable widgets New
  • Categories with their own units and pack deals New
  • Setup to-do, light and dark, three text sizes New
  • Weekly story posts and texts to regulars
  • Pantry, suppliers, income & expenses, and CSV export
Coming
  • Hosted version at bakerskeep.com, with sync
  • Your menu, website and posts in Spanish, with any other language added from a spreadsheet. The app itself stays in English for you
  • Online payments through your own Stripe account
  • Short animated stories
  • Label rules for jams and canned foods, state by state
  • Live widgets that update themselves
Under review

Not promised yet. Vote for the ones you’d use; the most-wanted get built first.

  • A pre-order form on your own websiteOrders land straight in the app, deposits includedVote
  • Import from Square, Bakesy or a spreadsheetBring your customers, menu and recipes over in one goVote
  • Done-for-you setupSend us your recipes and menu; we load everythingVote
  • Café and wholesale ordersInvoices, standing orders and net-30 termsVote
  • Card reader at the stallTap to pay with Square or Stripe, logged in your tallyVote
  • Helper accountsEach helper gets their own login and their own sales recordVote
Suggest something else
Why BakersKeep exists

It started with one baker’s cookies

I teach design and entrepreneurship. One of my students bakes amazing cookies, and she wanted to sell them at local markets here in Miami. The baking was never the problem. Everything around it was: what to charge when butter and chocolate go up, how many dozen to bake for Saturday, who pre-ordered and who paid, what the label has to say, and how to tell her regulars what’s on the menu this week.

So I built her a tool. Every screen on this page started as something she needed before a market: a price that covers her costs, an order list, a label she can print, a menu board for the stall. Most cottage bakers juggle the same things across notebooks, spreadsheets and texts. BakersKeep puts them in one place.

She’s our founding baker. She’s testing it as she gets ready for her first market, and she uses it free for life. If a feature doesn’t earn its place at a real stall, it doesn’t ship.

Dimitry ChamyFounder, BakersKeep · 2urn LLC, Miami

Questions

Before you join

Does BakersKeep take card payments?

Not yet. Today it sends your Venmo, Cash App, PayPal or card payment links, with QR codes, and tracks what’s paid. Online payments through your own Stripe account are planned for the hosted version.

Does it post to Instagram for me?

No. It makes the images and captions and opens your phone’s share sheet. You pick Instagram, Facebook or TikTok and post. That keeps your account in your hands.

Are the labels legal in my state?

Pick your state to see its exact label statement, what the label must include, and the key limits. BakersKeep is a tool, not legal advice. Rules change, so confirm with your state agency (linked below), which has the final say.

All 50 states and DC, checked against official sources in September 2026. Allergens follow the FDA’s nine major allergens.

Where is my data kept?

In your private workspace, synced across your devices. Recipes are marked confidential, can be locked behind a PIN, and never go to a shared stall device. Every list exports to CSV whenever you want.

I sell bread, jam or more than cookies.

Change one setting and the app says loaves, pastries, treats or whatever you sell. Group your menu into categories, and give each its own unit and pack deals: cookies 6 for $19.50, bread by the loaf, jam 2 jars for $13. Categories marked as jams or canned foods show a reminder that many states have extra rules for them.

Does it work on my phone?

Yes. It runs in the browser on phones, tablets and laptops. Plan on a laptop, run the stall from a tablet, text from your phone.

What if BakersKeep shuts down?

You keep your data and your app. Every list exports to CSV and recipes export as a file you can open anywhere. A self-hosted copy keeps running on your own device or server without us. If we ever close, we’ll give you 90 days’ notice and a final version that needs no license check, so nothing stops working.

Founders waitlist

Save a founders spot

$59 for the first year, then $79 a year, locked. We’ll email you once when spots open. No spam, no card today.

The back office on a laptop: the price calculator under the menu tabs
The menu board on a tablet at the stall
$59founders’ first year,
then $79/yr
A story post on a phone, ready to save and share
Back office on the laptop · Menu board on the tablet · Posts on the phone
BakersKeep
Email us for a founders spot

The button opens your email with "Founders" as the subject.

Or copy the address:

hello@bakerskeep.com

On a computer?

Scan with your phone’s camera to text us. "Founders" is filled in.

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