What it does — and what it doesn't

The whole of it, plainly: everything MyBakery does for a home baker today, and — because trust is the point — the things it deliberately doesn't do. If it isn't on this page, it isn't in the product.

Taking orders

Your own storefront: Your page, your products, your prices, your allergen declarations — shared as one link from Instagram, Facebook or a DM. Each product can carry up to 3 photos of your own work.
Cakes, cupcakes and more: A cake builder that walks customers size (6″–11″), style, flavour, filling and extras with a live price; cupcakes by the box of 6 or 12; simple catalogue products like bread and traybakes; and custom requests where you set the price before anything is paid.
You accept before anyone pays: A customer places an order, you accept it and the price locks — only then do they pay a deposit online to secure it. The balance is paid online when the order is ready, or in cash at collection if you choose to accept cash.
One bake per order, grouped when it helps: Each order is a single product or a single custom request, so nothing hides inside a basket. When one customer wants a cake and two boxes of cupcakes for the same collection, a docket groups those orders into one checkout.
Sandwich counter: Pay-in-full lunch ordering for bakers who run one. Bakery plan.

Staying organised

One queue, one calendar: Every order lands in a status-filtered queue and a calendar, with payment status at a glance. Capacity caps per day and lead-time rules keep orders inside what you can actually bake.
Collection events: Recurring market days and pickups with per-date management, batch labels and prep reminders.
Your calendar, on your phone: An opt-in calendar feed puts confirmed orders and collection events into the calendar app you already use. Off by default; you can revoke the link any time.
Reschedules without the back-and-forth: Date changes are a propose-and-accept handshake, and every applied change writes a dated record line into the order’s message log.

Messages that stay yours

Typed requests, your replies: Customers send structured requests — a date change, a price or design question, an allergen question — never open-ended chat. You answer in your own words, with one-tap actions for the common cases, and every reply reaches the customer by email.
Nothing slips: Unanswered messages climb the dashboard as collection approaches, and you get a text if one is still waiting close to the day.
No AI between you and your customers: Messages are written by you. Allergen questions reach you word-for-word, answers go back in your words, and nothing on your storefront is ever published without your say-so.

Money you can see

Deposits that lock orders in: Deposits are always paid online — at least 20% of the total, minimum €5 — so a confirmed order is a committed one. Every fee is itemised on the payments view, per order.
Recipe costing and your pantry: Build a recipe once and see what it costs per bake and per size. Keep real ingredient prices in a pantry — snap a supermarket receipt for prices, or snap the product itself and we read the pack so you barely type. You check everything before it saves.
Stock that counts itself down: Track how much of an ingredient you have and confirmed orders draw it down through your recipes. Orders without a costed recipe can’t be counted — the balance is a guide, not gospel, and we say so.
Margin and the net view: Cost against selling price on every product, and a net-after-labour view that shows your effective hourly rate against what you charged (Bakery plan).
Discounts, analytics and leads: Discount codes and order adjustments, sales analytics, and abandoned-order follow-ups — from the Hobbyist plan up. Promotion analytics on Bakery.
Texts on every plan: Customers get a text when their order is ready and when a deposit is waiting — on every plan, charged at cost, 10c per message.
Your data is yours to take: A full download of your business data is available on every plan — leaving is never paywalled. Hobbyist and up adds an automatic weekly backup to your own Google Drive.

Allergens and compliance

Allergen declarations up front: Customers see the allergens in every product before they order, on every plan. The declarations are yours — MyBakery makes them easier to manage and display, it doesn’t make them for you.
Labels in a tap: Allergen labels follow the 14-allergen format Irish food law requires (the list the FSAI publishes), with auto-fill from your recipes — on every plan. Bakery adds full batch labels with the emphasised ingredient list, printed 8 to a sheet.
Ready for the knock on the door: Bakery includes an allergen audit export designed to hand straight to an Environmental Health Officer — what was declared, when, on which orders.
GDPR both ways: Your customers can download their data and close their accounts; so can you. Registration with your local authority, food-safety practice and tax remain your own responsibility — MyBakery gives you records, not advice.

What it doesn't do

No basket: One order is one bake. A docket groups a customer’s orders for one collection — but there’s no multi-item cart to abandon.
No delivery: Collection only — from you or your stall. You never manage couriers.
No directory of bakers: Customers can’t find another baker through MyBakery. They reach you by your link, and your storefront shows only you.
No public reviews: Nobody rates you on your own storefront.
No app to install: Everything works in the browser on your phone — customers never need to download anything.
Euro only: Built for Ireland; every price, deposit and fee is in EUR.
No AI in your shop window: Nothing customer-facing is machine-written, and nothing is auto-published. Where the app reads text for you — like turning a photo of your own menu or receipt into a draft — you review every line before it exists.

Ask to join

Starter is €0/month — no per-order fee and no card fees, so there's no cost to you to try it out. From Hobbyist up, a flat €1.00 per order and card processing (1.54% + €0.25, at cost) apply — each plan's card spells out exactly what it includes. Taking payments means creating a Stripe Express account — Stripe verifies your identity and you'll accept Stripe's terms during their setup. Signing up means agreeing to MyBakery's Terms & Privacy Policy. Collection only, Ireland.