Bakery software for Australian bakers
ibakepro is bakery management software for bakeries that make to order: home bakers, cake decorators, market bakers and small commercial bakeries. One account carries recipe and product costing, orders and quotes, ingredient inventory, deposits and payments, an online storefront, wholesale ordering, deliveries, food safety records and marketing. Run from Australia, it bills in Australian dollars, at 26 to 89 a month across three plans, and the Australian data region sits in Sydney. The plan-by-plan figures are on the pricing page.
What an Australian account is set to
- Subscription currencyAustralian dollars, 26 to 89 a month depending on plan, with about 20 percent off for paying yearly. Prices are set per currency rather than converted at a checkout, so the figure you read is the figure you are charged.
- Data regionThree regions exist: Australia, hosted in Sydney, the United States, and Europe, hosted in London. You choose yours at signup and the choice stands for the life of the account, so it is worth two minutes before you start. The detail is in where is my data stored.
- Trading currency and taxThe currency you sell in is its own setting, separate from what you pay for ibakepro, and it drives what customers see, what invoices say and how analytics report. GST is one of the tax types you can choose. You set the rate, with different rates by product category where a category needs one, and ibakepro applies the rate you have configured. What you owe stays a conversation with your accountant.
- Units, dates and timeMetric throughout if you choose it, so a sack of flour reads as 5 kg and a delivery run costs out in kilometres per litre. Timezone and date format are yours to set, which matters when your ordering calendar spans three of them.
- NotificationsSMS is available in Australia, so a delivery-morning reminder or a balance-due nudge can go by text as well as by email.
Your busiest month is also your hottest
Most cake writing comes from the northern hemisphere, where the busiest week of the year is also the coldest. Here it inverts. Your peak, your wedding season and your worst working conditions arrive in the same fortnight, and an ordinary December afternoon across most of the country sits in the range where a butter icing is already a slump risk. That is a scheduling problem as much as a recipe one: a cake delivered at 8am and the same cake delivered at 2pm in January are two different jobs.
Delivery time slots are the practical lever. Cap how many December deliveries can land in each window and close the afternoon windows for the weeks where the afternoon is not survivable, before you take a single December order rather than after. The ganache ratios, the fridge-and-condensation trap and the venue questions worth asking are in running a bakery through a summer Christmas.
What you get
Five of the parts Australian bakeries reach for first:
- Recipe costing prices every ingredient at what you paid, converts the units on the way into a recipe and rewrites every dependent cost the moment a supplier price moves.
- Packaging costs put boards, boxes, dowels and ribbon into the cost of a cake, priced differently depending on whether the order is collected, delivered or posted.
- Deposits and payment schedules size a deposit per order from one rule you set once, track the balance and flag what has gone past its date.
- Pantry and stock show what you hold and what is already committed to orders, which is the number that decides whether you can say yes to a November enquiry.
- Limited releases run a scheduled batch with a fixed number of units, with stock claimed the moment it enters a cart, which suits a Christmas pudding run or a market weekend.
Trying it
Each plan starts with a 14-day free trial carrying everything that plan includes, a card is required at signup, and 25 Choux AI credits are included. The fortnight goes furthest spent on the pantry and on costing a handful of products you have already sold.
Every country-level fact behind this page, currencies, regions, tax types, payment reach and SMS coverage, is in does ibakepro work in my country.