Quote-to-Cash Workflow: What Changes About Your Week
AI-assisted draft, reviewed and edited by the BakeOnyx team.
A customer calls on Friday asking for a 3-tier wedding cake. You're mid-batch, hands covered in buttercream. You guess a price based on what you think you charged last time. They say yes. You hang up and realize you forgot to ask about delivery. You spend Sunday night trying to figure out if you actually made money on that order — or if you just gave away 6 hours of work for $150. Your notebook has 40 inquiries in it. Three of them never converted. Two you forgot to follow up on. One you quoted at $85 but invoiced at $95 because you forgot what you promised. With BakeOnyx, you open the inquiry form on your iPad while you're still at the mixer. You type in the cake size, flavors, and delivery date. The software calculates your ingredient cost in 15 seconds. You add your labor and markup. The customer gets a quote email before you finish cleanup. When they say yes, one click moves them to "Confirmed Order." Your staff sees it on the production schedule Monday morning. Thursday night, you invoice them automatically. Friday, you know exactly what profit you made — $287 on that cake, not a guess.
How It Works
Create an inquiry and quote in 60 seconds
A customer emails asking about a 2-tier birthday cake. You click "New Inquiry" in BakeOnyx. You type their name, email, cake size (8-inch and 6-inch), flavor (chocolate sponge with vanilla buttercream), and delivery date. You select "Birthday" as the event type. The software shows you the last three birthday cakes you made — their ingredient costs, labor time, and what you charged. You type 2.5 hours for labor. You add your markup (40%). BakeOnyx calculates the total: $78.50 in ingredients, $75 in labor (at $30/hour), plus markup = $218.70. You click "Send Quote." The customer gets an email with the price, what's included, and a link to confirm. You move on. No spreadsheet. No calculator.
Convert the quote to a confirmed order with one click
The customer replies "yes, let's do it." Their status in BakeOnyx changes from "Inquiry" to "Quote Sent." You click "Confirm Order." The software creates an order record automatically. It pulls in their contact info, the cake specs, the price, and the delivery date. Your staff sees it on the production schedule. Your inventory system flags that you need 400g of cocoa powder and 800g of cream cheese by Wednesday. No email chain. No phone call. No wondering if they're actually coming.
Track production from bake to delivery
Monday morning, your baker logs into BakeOnyx on the tablet in the kitchen. They see "Birthday Cake — 8-inch and 6-inch — Due Thursday." They click the order. It shows the exact recipe (scaled to the right batch size), the ingredient list, and any special notes ("No nuts, customer has allergy"). They check off each step as they go: sponge baked, cooled, crumb coated, decorated. By Wednesday, the order status shows "Ready for Delivery." You see it's on the Thursday delivery list.
Invoice automatically on delivery
Thursday afternoon, you mark the order "Delivered" in BakeOnyx. The system generates an invoice automatically — it pulls the order details, price, and customer email. The invoice goes to them with payment terms (due in 7 days, or pay now via the link). You see the order move to "Invoiced" status. No manual invoice creation. No forgetting to bill someone.
Track payment and close the loop
The customer pays online or you mark it paid manually. BakeOnyx moves the order to "Paid." Now you run a report: "Orders This Month." You see 23 orders, total revenue $4,847, total ingredient cost $1,203, total labor $1,540, total profit $2,104. You can drill into any order and see exactly what you made. You know which flavors are most profitable. You know which customers take the longest to deliver to. You know if you're pricing wedding cakes too low.
Handle 30 June wedding inquiries without losing one
June hits and you get 30 wedding cake inquiries in two weeks. Each one comes in as an email, a form submission, or a phone call. You log each one into BakeOnyx with the couple's details and cake vision. Some you quote at $450. Some at $650. You send quotes to all 30. You track which ones said yes, which said no, which haven't replied. You see that 18 converted. You see that 3 couples never responded — you click "Follow Up" and the system reminds you to email them on day 7. By June 30, you've quoted 30 cakes, booked 18, and know exactly which Saturdays are fully booked. No spreadsheet with 30 rows. No wondering if you missed someone.
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Benefits
Price a custom order while your hands are in dough
You're mixing a batch of croissant dough when a customer calls asking about a last-minute birthday cake for tomorrow. You open BakeOnyx on your phone. You pull up a similar cake you made last month. You adjust the size and flavors. The cost recalculates instantly. You quote $185 over the phone. No guessing. No calling them back 20 minutes later with a different price.
Quote a custom order in 45 seconds instead of 10 minutes of math and second-guessing
Stop undercharging for orders you thought were unprofitable
You've been making custom cakes for 3 years. You think your 8-inch chocolate cakes are profitable at $95. You run a report in BakeOnyx. It shows you've made 47 chocolate cakes. Average ingredient cost: $18. Average labor (2 hours at $25/hour): $50. Average price charged: $92. Actual profit per cake: $24. You've been undercharging by $20 per cake. That's $940 left on the table in the last year. You adjust your pricing. Next month, you charge $115. Profit jumps to $47 per cake.
Identify $940+ in annual underpricing within 2 minutes of running a report
Never run out of vanilla extract on Saturday morning again
You have 6 orders due Saturday. All of them need vanilla buttercream. BakeOnyx tracks your inventory in real time. Wednesday morning, you open the app. It shows: "You have 120ml vanilla extract. Saturday's orders need 180ml. Reorder now." You order it Wednesday. It arrives Friday. Saturday morning, you have enough. No emergency run to the store at 6 AM. No calling a customer to say you're out of their first-choice flavor.
Get reorder alerts 3 days before you run out, not the morning you're out
Spend Monday morning 10 minutes on admin instead of 2 hours
Last Monday, you spent 2 hours on a spreadsheet. You had to manually enter 12 orders from the week. You had to calculate how much you spent on ingredients. You had to create invoices for 8 customers. You had to figure out what profit you made. With BakeOnyx, every order auto-filled when the customer confirmed. Ingredients were tracked automatically from your recipes. Invoices generated on delivery. Profit calculated instantly. Monday morning takes 10 minutes: you review the week's production schedule and check if any orders need follow-up.
Cut Monday admin time from 120 minutes to 10 minutes
Handle tax season with one export, not a weekend of spreadsheet panic
March 15th rolls around. Your accountant needs your sales, expenses, and profit from 2025. Instead of spending Saturday morning rebuilding your records from 4 different spreadsheets and a notebook, you click "Export for Tax" in BakeOnyx. It generates a report with every sale, every ingredient purchase, and every labor cost. You email it to your accountant. They have what they need. You're done in 5 minutes.
Go from 8 hours of tax prep to 5 minutes of exporting
Know which of your 40 recipes actually makes money
You have 40 recipes in your bakery. You think your lemon drizzle loaf is profitable at $12. You think your sourdough is a loss leader. You run a report: "Profit by Recipe." It shows lemon drizzle: $4.20 profit per loaf. Sourdough: $6.80 profit per loaf. You've had it backwards. You've been pushing the less profitable item. You adjust your marketing. You promote sourdough. Your profit margin improves by 8% in one month.
Identify your top 3 most profitable recipes in 2 minutes, then increase overall margin by 5-12%
Related Features
Recipe Costing
BakeOnyx calculates the exact cost of every ingredient in your recipes — down to the gram — so every quote is based on real numbers, not guesses.
Order Management
Track every order from inquiry through delivery, with automatic status updates for you and your customer so nothing falls through the cracks.
Inventory Tracking
Know what you have in stock, what you need to reorder, and when you'll run out — so you never scramble to find vanilla extract on a Saturday morning.
Invoicing
Generate invoices automatically when orders ship, send them to customers with payment links, and track which ones are paid — no more manual billing.
Reports & Analytics
Run 20 built-in reports to see profit by recipe, by customer, by month, and by product — so you know exactly where your money is coming from.
Production Scheduling
Your staff sees today's bake list on the tablet in the kitchen, with scaled recipes and ingredient quantities, so you don't have to call them with instructions.
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