Some customers need today’s hours. Others are planning a cake three weeks from now. Make both easy: show what you bake, when you’re open, how custom orders work, and when customers need to get their order in. Built from a 10-to-30-minute questionnaire, in front of you in 48 hours. $40 a month, five edit requests a month from your account.
Open the sample website to try it on your phone.
Open goldencrumb.com ›An example, not a template. Golden Crumb Bakery is not a real company. The reviews, the prices and the photographs are written examples. What this site shows is what we would suggest for a bakery. Yours will show what you want it to, including the reviews: send us your Google profile link and your best ones go on the page word for word, first name and last initial.
Tell us which qualifications you’d like customers to see. We can include certifications, licenses and insurance details you provide.
We studied how neighborhood bakeries turn a 9pm cake inquiry into a deposit — these are the conventions your customers already expect. The questionnaire is where you pick which of these belong on your site.
Bakery hours are irregular on purpose — closed Mondays, done at 2pm, open until sold out. When your site and reality disagree, someone drives to a locked door. The bakeries that get this right post “Closed Mondays & Tuesdays” plainly; in this trade, a Monday closure is itself a craft signal.
“Once we sell out, we close for the day” reads as integrity, not hype — the best bakery sites say it plainly. Put it on the site and scarcity becomes held orders — the ones that handle it well tell people to “call early and we’ll hold your order.”
Three weeks for celebration cakes, months for weddings, and “the date is not reserved until the deposit is received”. Publish the rules and every cake inquiry arrives already agreeing to them.
Date needed, servings, flavors, a photo of what they have in mind — collected up front, with your lead time posted so nobody asks for a wedding cake by Thursday. Your first reply is a yes and a price instead of five questions.
Your website, Console and workflow tools. Writing, hosting and upkeep included.
Your first preview after your questionnaire and payment. Complete the launch checklist, then ask us to launch.
No exit fee. Your site stays up through the period you’ve paid for.
Your domain is registered in your name and billed at cost, about $11 a year.
The tools draft the message; you review it and tap to send on your phone. Texts use your carrier plan, with no per-message fee from Plainsmith.
The optional front desk answers calls you forward when you can’t pick up and prepares a text reply. We check forwarding on your number during setup. Its Twilio voice line costs about $1.15 a month plus about a cent a minute, billed to your own account. See provider costs.
Cancel from your account. Your website comes down and workflows stop at the end of the month or year you paid for.
You have 14 days to request a refund, starting when we send the finished website for review. We return your full website payment, including $400 if you paid annually. Domain registration is nonrefundable; you keep the domain.
Your Console stays open in read-only mode, free, so you can download your contacts, messages and appointments.
Your domain, words, photos and logo belong to you from the start. The website’s design and code cost $499 less your plan credit to buy.
Monthly: this month’s $40 comes off. Annual: we credit $400 divided by 12 for each unfinished month, including the month you’re in. Your account shows the exact price.
Your files and hosting setup arrive within seven days. You take over hosting, updates and renewals. After a buyout, hosting and workflow service finish with your current billing month. Read the ownership terms.
We build the front of your bakery — the site people find, the menu they read, and the follow-up on cake and catering inquiries. We are not a bakery operations platform, and we won't pretend to be one.
Square, Toast, Clover — whatever rings up the counter keeps ringing up the counter. We point your site's buttons at it rather than replacing it.
If you take full online orders with a cart and pickup windows, that belongs in an ordering platform. Give us the link and it becomes your site's main button.
Bake schedules, recipe costing and stock are their own software. We'll build the board page — most bakeries keep it as a typical day's bake with a "follow us for today's" line, and if you want it truly daily, an email each morning is one of your five edit requests.
Being found and trusted at a glance is one place small bakeries quietly lose money; the 9pm custom-cake inquiry that never gets answered is the other.
Keep track of unanswered cake quotes and balances due before pickup. The workflow tools draft reminders for you to check and send, and they come with your website plan.
When a customer hasn’t answered your cake quote, the quote chaser drafts a follow-up for you to review and send.
Invoice nudges on day 2, 7 and 14 mean you’re not chasing money the week of a wedding.
A three-tier order blocks the days it actually needs, so nothing else gets promised over the top of it.
Collection reminders are written for the morning of, so cakes leave on time. All of it books into the calendar that came with your build, set to the hours you actually work, so a pickup or a tasting lands on a day you can actually bake for. Try the tools ›
Every site we build comes with a console — tools or no tools. It is the back room of your own website at yourdomain.com/console, on the phone behind the counter and the desktop at home. For a bakery, the screens that earn their place:
Custom orders by pickup day, with the allergy notes on the order rather than in a text thread.
Which cakes are paid for and which are a promise, before you start baking.
Today's collections in time order, so the counter knows what is boxed and what is not.
The questionnaire asks about your hours, the case, your cake rules, and how you want to come across, in your own words. The 48-hour clock starts when your finished questionnaire lands.