Built for Cookie Businesses
You're boxing up a custom order at 6 PM on Thursday. Your phone buzzes: a customer wants 15 dozen sugar cookies with custom icing for a baby shower on Saturday. You know the recipe. You know your margins are good on cookie orders. But do you know the exact cost of 15 dozen with the specialty flour you switched to last month? You reach for your phone to calculate, and suddenly you're five minutes into a spreadsheet instead of finishing tonight's batch. This happens three times a week. By Friday, you've lost an hour to pricing. By tax season, you've lost track of which cookie flavors actually make money. When your cookie business runs on spreadsheets and notebook sketches, every order is a small math problem. Every flavor variation is a guess. Every seasonal rush — Christmas, Valentine's, wedding season — is chaos. You hire help, but they don't know which cookies to prep or how many dozens you need until you text them. You track orders in five different places: email, Instagram DMs, a Google Sheet, your notebook, and your head. BakeOnyx is built for how you actually work. You type in your cookie recipes once. You price an order in 30 seconds from your phone while you're elbow-deep in royal icing. You see exactly which flavors make the most money per hour of work. You get alerts when you're running low on chocolate chips or almond flour. Your staff knows what to bake tomorrow without calling you. Tax season is one export, not a weekend of panic.
Challenges Cookie Businesses Face
I'm spending 15 minutes pricing every phone order, and I still get the math wrong half the time
A customer calls asking for 24 sugar cookies with custom icing and a rush fee. You're mid-piping. You mentally calculate ingredient costs, remember you switched suppliers last month, add labor, add your markup, and quote a number. Two days later you realize you undercharged because you forgot the cost of the specialty sprinkles. Or you overcharged and now they're annoyed. You've lost track of how many cookies you've quoted at different prices this month. By Friday, you're not sure if you made $200 or $400 profit on cookie orders.
I have 40 cookie recipes and no idea which ones are actually profitable
You make chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin, sugar cookies, snickerdoodles, red velvet, peanut butter, lemon, matcha, and 32 other flavors. You charge $18 per dozen for all of them. But your matcha cookies use $6 worth of ingredients and take 40 minutes to decorate. Your chocolate chip cookies use $2.50 of ingredients and take 15 minutes. You're losing money on matcha and don't know it. You could drop three flavors tomorrow and make 20% more profit, but you have no way to tell which ones.
I run out of key ingredients on Saturday morning because I didn't order on time
Wednesday you're baking 200 cookies. You use half your cream cheese. You think 'I should order more' but you're busy. Saturday morning, a customer orders 30 dozen cheesecake cookies. You have 200g of cream cheese left. You need 800g. You scramble to find a supplier open on Saturday. You pay rush shipping. You lose $40 in profit on that order. This happens every month with a different ingredient.
I can't scale recipes in my head, so I either waste ingredients or guess and hope it works
Your signature chocolate chip cookie recipe makes 48 cookies. A corporate client wants 500 cookies for their office party. You try to scale the recipe on paper. You multiply 4 cups of flour by 10.4. You write down 41.6 cups. You're not sure if that's right. You bake a test batch and it's too dry. You waste 2 pounds of flour and 6 eggs. You remake it. The second batch is better but you're not confident. You charge less because you're worried you messed up. You spent 4 hours on a $120 order.
During holiday season, I get 30 orders in a week and lose track of which ones are done, which ones are shipping, which ones are paid
November hits. You get 8 orders on Monday, 6 on Tuesday, 5 on Wednesday. Some are for Thanksgiving, some are for Christmas, some are corporate gifts. One customer ordered on November 3rd and you promised delivery November 15th. Another ordered on November 5th and wants it by November 10th. You have orders in your email, orders in Instagram DMs, orders in a Google Sheet with different column names than last year. You bake the wrong order. You ship to the wrong address. You invoice someone twice. You forget to follow up on a payment. You're stressed every day from November through January.
My staff shows up and asks 'what do I bake today?' and I have to stop everything to tell them
Your baker arrives at 5 AM. They text 'What's the priority today?' You're still asleep. You wake up, check your orders, remember what's due, text back 'Start with the 50 sugar cookies, then do 30 snickerdoodles, then the custom order for the wedding.' By the time they get the message, they've already started the wrong batch. Or they prep for something that's not due until next week while urgent orders sit undone. You're managing their work on your phone instead of baking.
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How BakeOnyx Helps
Recipe Costing
I'm spending 15 minutes pricing every phone order, and I still get the math wrong half the time
You enter your chocolate chip cookie recipe once: 3 cups flour at $0.45/lb, 2 cups butter at $6.50/lb, 2 cups sugar at $0.80/lb, chocolate chips at $8/bag. BakeOnyx calculates the cost per cookie. A customer calls asking for 24 cookies. You pull up the recipe on your phone. It shows $4.82 in ingredients. You add labor and markup. You quote $28. Done in 30 seconds. You change suppliers next month and update the flour price. Every cookie recipe that uses that flour recalculates automatically. No more math. No more guessing.
Profit Margin Reports by Product
I have 40 cookie recipes and no idea which ones are actually profitable
You run a report at the end of the month. BakeOnyx shows you: matcha cookies have a 62% margin, chocolate chip has an 78% margin, red velvet has a 55% margin. You see that red velvet takes 45 minutes to decorate but only sells 8 dozen a month. You see that lemon cookies take 15 minutes, have a 75% margin, and you could sell 20 dozen a month if you promoted them. You decide to drop red velvet and push lemon. You add $400 to your monthly profit without working harder.
Inventory Alerts
I run out of key ingredients on Saturday morning because I didn't order on time
Wednesday you're looking at orders for the week. BakeOnyx shows 'You have 300g cream cheese left. Thursday and Friday orders need 600g total. Reorder now.' You add cream cheese to your standing order. Saturday morning, you have what you need. You stop losing $40 orders to ingredient shortages. Over a year, that's $2,000 in recovered profit.
Recipe Scaling
I can't scale recipes in my head, so I either waste ingredients or guess and hope it works
A corporate client wants 500 cookies. Your recipe makes 48. You type 500 into BakeOnyx and hit 'Scale Recipe.' It shows: 43.2 cups flour, 20.8 cups butter, 20.8 cups sugar, 10.4 bags chocolate chips. It calculates the total ingredient cost: $67.50. You print the job sheet with the scaled quantities. You bake with confidence. No waste. No second batch. No guessing.
Order Pipeline & Customer Communication
During holiday season, I get 30 orders in a week and lose track of which ones are done, which ones are shipping, which ones are paid
November 1st hits. Orders come in through your website, Instagram, email. BakeOnyx logs every one. You see a dashboard: 8 orders need to bake this week, 5 are baking now, 4 are ready to ship, 3 are shipped, 2 are waiting for payment. You click one order and see the full history: customer name, order date, due date, what they ordered, what they paid, what you need to do next. Your staff sees a list of what to bake today, sorted by due date. You send a payment reminder with one click. You ship an order and the customer gets an automatic email saying 'Your cookies are on the way.' You stop losing orders in the chaos.
Staff Dashboard & Task List
My staff shows up and asks 'what do I bake today?' and I have to stop everything to tell them
Your baker opens BakeOnyx on their phone at 5 AM. They see a list: 'Today: 50 sugar cookies (due Friday), 30 snickerdoodles (due Thursday), 12 custom decorated cookies (due tomorrow).' They know the priority without calling you. They see the recipe, the quantities, the ingredients they need to pull. They clock in, mark batches as done, and you see it all on your dashboard in real time. You're not managing their work. You're baking.
Key Features
Recipe Costing Down to the Gram
You enter ingredient costs once. BakeOnyx calculates the cost per cookie, per dozen, per batch. A 48-cookie batch of snickerdoodles costs $8.64 in ingredients. A 24-cookie batch costs $4.32. You price orders in 30 seconds. When butter prices spike, you update the cost and every recipe that uses butter recalculates. You know your margins in real time, not at tax season.
Scale Any Recipe from 24 to 500 Cookies
Your sugar cookie recipe makes 48. A wedding needs 300. You type 300 and BakeOnyx scales every ingredient, recalculates the cost, and prints a job sheet with exact quantities. No mental math. No waste. No second-guessing yourself at 2 AM.
See Which Cookies Make the Most Money
Run a report and see profit margin, revenue, and time spent on each flavor. You discover that matcha cookies have a 55% margin but take 50 minutes per dozen. Chocolate chip has a 78% margin and takes 20 minutes per dozen. You're making $23/hour on matcha and $47/hour on chocolate chip. You know exactly which flavors to push and which to drop.
Never Run Out of Ingredients Again
BakeOnyx tracks your inventory. When you log a batch of cookies, it deducts the ingredients you used. When you're running low, you get an alert with the exact amount to reorder. You stop paying rush shipping fees. You stop losing orders because you're out of cream cheese on Saturday morning.
Manage Orders from Inquiry to Invoice in One Place
Orders come in through email, Instagram, your website, or phone. You log them in BakeOnyx. You see the full pipeline: inquiry, quoted, confirmed, baking, ready, shipped, invoiced, paid. You never lose an email thread. You never forget to follow up on a payment. Customers get automatic updates at every stage.
Your Staff Knows What to Bake Without Asking You
Your baker opens the app and sees today's bake list, sorted by due date, with recipes and quantities. They clock in. They mark batches done. You see everything on your dashboard. You're not managing their work via text messages at 5 AM. You're actually baking.
“Monday morning you check the dashboard and see 12 orders came in over the weekend. You scan the list: 4 are for this week, 8 are for next week. You mark 4 as 'ready to quote' and send pricing in 15 minutes using saved recipes. Wednesday you get an alert: 'You have 400g butter left. Friday's orders need 600g. Reorder now.' You add butter to your supplier order. Friday afternoon, your staff finishes the week's bakes. You run the weekly report and see you made $1,240 profit on cookies this week, with a 74% average margin. You invoice 3 customers in two clicks. By 5 PM Friday you're done with admin. No spreadsheets. No spreadsheet panic.”
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