Run Multiple Bakeries From One Dashboard — Stop Switching Between Spreadsheets

By the BakeOnyx Editorial TeamLast reviewed

AI-assisted draft, reviewed and edited by the BakeOnyx team.

It's Tuesday morning. You're on the phone with your second location's manager. She's asking if you can price a 6-inch tiered cake for Thursday. You don't have her current ingredient costs in front of you — they're in a different spreadsheet. You guess. She quotes the customer $185. Later you realize butter prices went up at her supplier last week, and you just lost $12 per cake. This is the moment multi-location bakery software stops being nice-to-have and becomes essential. With BakeOnyx, you open one dashboard. You see all your locations' recipes, ingredient costs, current orders, and inventory levels at a glance. When your second location's manager needs a price, she pulls it herself from the iPad in 45 seconds — using the exact costs for her store. No guessing. No lost margin. No spreadsheet switching. One system. Every location synced. Every price accurate.

How It Works

1

Create locations and assign staff permissions in seconds

You click Settings, then Locations. You type 'Downtown Store' and 'Airport Kiosk.' BakeOnyx assigns each location its own inventory, supplier pricing, and staff roster. You add your manager at the Airport Kiosk and set her permissions: she can view recipes, generate quotes, and log production — but can't delete orders or change pricing. She gets an email invite, clicks it, and she's in.

2

Set supplier costs per location — because your butter costs differ

Your Downtown Store buys from Restaurant Depot. Your Airport Kiosk uses a local distributor. You go to Supplier Management, select 'Butter,' and enter two prices: $4.20/kg for Downtown, $4.85/kg for Airport. When you create a recipe, you tag it as 'All Locations' or 'Downtown Only.' BakeOnyx calculates the cost automatically for each store. Change the price once, and every recipe linked to that supplier updates across all locations.

3

Share recipes across locations — or keep them separate

You've perfected your chocolate cake recipe. You want it at both locations. You go to Recipes, click your chocolate cake, and select 'Share to All Locations.' The recipe syncs instantly. Your Airport manager can now scale it, cost it, and add it to orders. But your sourdough starter is proprietary — you keep that as 'Downtown Only.' Both locations see what they need, nothing more.

4

See inventory across all locations on one screen

You open the Inventory Dashboard. You see: Downtown has 2.4kg cream cheese, Airport has 800g. Thursday's orders across both locations need 3.1kg total. BakeOnyx flags a warning: 'You're 100g short. Reorder by Wednesday.' You click 'Create Purchase Order' and it goes to your supplier. No location runs out. No emergency calls.

5

Generate a price quote from any location in 60 seconds

Your Airport manager gets a phone call for a rush 9-inch wedding cake. She opens BakeOnyx on her iPad, clicks Orders, then New Quote. She selects her location (Airport Kiosk), chooses the wedding cake recipe, and BakeOnyx calculates: ingredients $11.40 (using her supplier costs), labor $25, packaging $3. She types $65 and hits Send. The quote goes to the customer's email. The cost is accurate for her location. She didn't call you. She didn't guess.

6

Track sales and profit by location — see which store actually makes money

You run the Location Profitability Report. It shows: Downtown made $8,420 in June with a 38% margin. Airport made $3,100 with a 29% margin. You drill into Airport's numbers and see why: she's running 6% food cost higher than Downtown, and her labor per order is 12 minutes longer. You meet with her, adjust her recipe batch sizes, and next month her margin jumps to 34%. Without this visibility, you wouldn't have known.

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Benefits

Price orders from any location without calling you — your managers quote customers in 45 seconds

Your Downtown manager gets a walk-in asking for a custom 3-tier cake. She pulls up BakeOnyx on the register iPad, selects the 3-tier recipe, and sees the cost is $18.75 in ingredients for her store's suppliers. She adds labor and packaging, quotes $89, and closes the sale. No phone calls. No waiting. No guessing. Your other location's manager does the same thing at the same time — each using their own supplier costs.

Quote a custom order in 45 seconds instead of 10 minutes on a phone call

Stop running out of inventory because you can see what every location has

You used to track inventory in your head, or worse, in three different notebooks. Now you open BakeOnyx and see real-time inventory across all locations. You're planning a promotion on croissants. Downtown has 140 units, Airport has 60. You know you can safely offer a deal. You also see that cream cheese is at 60% of your reorder point across both stores combined — you place one bulk order instead of two small ones, saving 8% on cost.

Reduce emergency reorders by 70% — order once, split between locations, save on per-unit cost

Know which location is actually profitable — and fix the ones that aren't

Your Airport Kiosk looks busy. Orders come in. But you didn't know it was running a 24% margin while Downtown runs 39%. You pull the Location Profitability Report and see why: Airport's labor cost per order is 18% higher because the manager is less experienced at batch production. You spend 2 hours training her on your batch-proofing method. Next month, her labor cost drops 6%, and her margin jumps to 31%. Without this visibility, you'd have kept losing money.

Identify unprofitable locations in one report — adjust pricing or operations and recapture $800-$2,400 per month

Let your managers work independently — they don't need to call you for every decision

Your Downtown manager used to call you 4-5 times a week with questions: 'Can we do this order?' 'What should we charge?' 'Are we low on anything?' Now she logs into BakeOnyx, sees the recipe, the cost, the inventory, and makes the decision herself. She still calls you about strategy — but not about data. You get 3-4 hours back every week.

Reduce manager phone calls by 80% — each manager handles their own quotes and inventory checks

Sync supplier pricing once — every recipe at every location updates automatically

Your butter supplier raises prices. You used to update this in three different places. Now you go to Supplier Management, change the price to $4.35/kg, and every recipe using butter recalculates instantly across Downtown, Airport, and any future locations. You see the new margin on every cake, every cookie, every bread product. You know in 30 seconds if you need to raise prices or absorb the cost.

Update supplier costs once and recalculate 40+ recipes across all locations in under 60 seconds

Scale from 2 locations to 5 without hiring an accountant or operations manager

You're thinking about opening a third location. Right now, you manage Downtown and Airport mostly by memory and spreadsheets. With BakeOnyx, you can add a third location in 2 minutes, give the new manager access to proven recipes and supplier pricing, and she's operational immediately. You don't need to teach her your costing system — she uses the same one. You don't need to recreate 30 recipes — she inherits them. You can scale without adding overhead.

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