Is ibakepro right for a bakery selling wholesale?
Yes, if you supply cafes, delis and stockists at prices you negotiated once, with minimum quantities, invoiced on terms rather than paid by card, and you want those buyers ordering themselves instead of emailing you a list.
No, if wholesale is a side of the business you are testing. It is a Business-plan feature, and Business is a large step up from Growth. Until the trade side justifies that, you can serve a stockist perfectly well by building the order yourself and invoicing it.
What you get with wholesale ordering
A private ordering area beside your public shop, with its own sign-in and its own prices. The mechanics are in trade ordering for cafes and stockists; the short version is three things.
A tag is a price list. Tag an account "cafe" and it pays cafe prices everywhere. A tag carries a default percentage off retail, per-product overrides and quantity breaks. You revoke access by removing a tag, not by rotating a password somebody shared.
The price sheet and the checkout can never disagree. The price sheet you read in the dashboard is worked out the same way checkout charges, so the sheet and the till cannot drift apart. Minimum order quantities are checked again at checkout, per product and per variant.
Terms behave like every other unpaid balance. An order on net terms mints a real order with no charge and turns the total into a single scheduled payment due a set number of days out. It lands in the same due and overdue reporting as a retail deposit, so you are not running two systems.
Business also brings what usually arrives with trade volume: unlimited users, recurring production and auto-portioning, route optimisation, drivers and proof of delivery, Xero, MYOB and QuickBooks Online, Shopify, webhooks and the public REST API and the removal of ibakepro branding.
What to weigh up
Which setup fits
- You want buyers repeating last week's order in two taps. The trade area is a catalogue and checkout; a standing weekly order is built by you in the dashboard or pushed in through the API.
- You need EDI or a supermarket portal integration. Buyers order through the web area, through you, or through the REST API.
- You are moving a large catalogue across. Customers, orders, ingredients, supplies and expenses import from CSV, and imports only ever create, never update. The catalogue itself is built once in the product builder so pricing means something: wholesale prices your existing products rather than keeping a second catalogue, so get that data right before the pricing rests on it.
- You need courier labels bought and printed from the order. Courier dispatch is coming; today you record dispatch and tracking by hand, alongside the postage you arrange in your carrier's own system.
- You also run a counter and want one system for both. Wholesale, delivery and online are covered today; the till arrives with Point of Sale.
- You need batch and lot traceability. Traceability shows the full ingredient breakdown of a product; batch and lot numbers are text you record.
- You need different minimums per price list. A minimum belongs to the product, with a per-variant override as the only way to differ. Two account types needing different floors is a quantity-ladder decision here, not a minimum one.
Before committing, work out what your trade prices should be: wholesale pricing, price lists and terms. The plan price itself is in what does bakery software cost.