# What is the best software for a home bakery in Australia?

> An Australian home bakery needs AUD deposits, allergen records for the plain English rules, GST when registered and data held in Australia. ibakepro does all four from A$26.

An Australian home baker, whether you bake custom cakes, sourdough for
weekend pre-orders or cookies for the local market, needs four things from
software: card deposits in AUD, ingredient-level allergen records, GST ready
for when you register, and data kept in Australia. ibakepro does all four,
from A$26 a month, with a 14-day free trial.

## What an Australian home baker actually needs

**Deposits at booking, balances before the date.** Most custom work in
Australia, from a birthday cake to 100 favour cookies for a wedding, is booked
weeks ahead with a deposit to hold the date. Software
should take the deposit by card when the customer accepts, work out the
balance and chase it before collection, without you watching a list of dates.

**Allergens that follow the ingredients.** Since 25 February 2024 the Food
Standards Code has required allergens on food labels to be declared in plain
English terms, in bold, in a set format and location. Whether your own products
need a full label depends on how you package and sell them, which your council
or state food authority will tell you, but every home baker needs the
ingredient-level record behind the answer. Typing allergens onto each order by
hand is how a "may contain" goes missing.

**GST that is ready when you are.** The ATO lists cakes, pastries and biscuits
as taxable food while plain bread is GST-free, and registration is required at A$75,000 GST turnover, current
or projected. Many home bakers start below that line and cross it. Your
software should let you switch GST on and set the rate by product category
without rebuilding your
prices. The detail is in
[do I charge GST on cakes in Australia](/answers/do-i-charge-gst-on-cakes-in-australia).

**Prices in dollars, data in Australia.** Customers pay in AUD, and your
customer records, addresses and order history are personal information that
some bakers prefer kept onshore.

**Costing from what you actually paid.** Flour, butter, eggs and cream move in
price through the year. A loaf or a cake you priced last winter may be making
less now, and the
only way to know is to cost it from current ingredient prices.

## How ibakepro covers it

ibakepro serves Australian bakers from a home kitchen up to a shop with staff,
and costs each order from what you paid for ingredients. For an Australian home
bakery, that means:

- **Quotes and deposits.** One quote can carry several options, the customer
  picks one in their order page and pays the deposit by card through your own
  Stripe account. Payment schedules can make the balance due a set number of
  days before the event, and reminders repeat until it is paid. See
  [payment schedules and deposits](/features/payment-schedules-and-deposits).
- **Allergens.** Each pantry item carries its allergens as contains, processed
  in or may contain, and they flow up through recipes to products, orders and
  the storefront. If a customer has not chosen a flavour yet, every allergen it
  could contain is shown. See [allergen management](/features/allergen-management).
- **GST.** GST is one of the tax types you can choose, with the rate you set,
  including a different rate by product category.
- **AUD and Sydney.** Your subscription is billed in Australian dollars, and
  Australian accounts can choose the Australian data region, hosted in Sydney.
- **Costing.** Every product is costed from the price you paid for each
  ingredient, so a supplier price change shows up in your margins. See
  [recipe costing](/features/recipe-costing).

## Which plan fits a home bakery

| Plan | AUD per month | Fits |
|---|---|---|
| Essentials | A$26 | One person, up to 100 orders in the life of the account |
| Growth | A$33 | Two users, unlimited orders, an online shop and Compliance for food safety records |
| Business | A$89 | Unlimited users, wholesale, delivery and courier tools |

Most home bakers start on Essentials and move to Growth when they want a shop
that takes payment online or pass about two orders a week. The full breakdown
is in [is ibakepro right for a home baker](/answers/is-ibakepro-right-for-a-home-baker),
and the Australian setup is on
[bakery software for Australian bakers](/bakery-software-australia).

The 14-day trial includes every feature of the plan you pick, so the useful
test is to load the ingredients for your three best sellers, cost them, and see
whether the numbers match what you thought you were making.