Bakery software for US bakers
ibakepro is bakery management software for bakeries of every size, from home bakers and cake makers to sourdough micro-bakeries, cookie and gingerbread businesses, and established bakeries with teams, wholesale accounts and more than one location, in Australia, the US, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and Europe. It runs custom orders, wholesale and online sales in one place, and costs every product from what you actually paid for ingredients, so you know what everything you bake earns.
For a US business the subscription is billed in US dollars, $17 to $59 a month across three plans, and US accounts are held in the United States data region. Prices are set per currency rather than converted at a checkout, so the number on the pricing page is the number that leaves your account.
Cottage food first, then the software
Most US home bakers sell under their state's cottage food law, and those laws change at the state line: what the permission is called, whether there is a yearly sales cap, which foods are off limits (anything that needs refrigeration is the usual line, which catches cream cheese frosting and custard fillings), and whether you can ship or only hand over in person. Our home baking laws by state and country table covers the most populous states with links to each official page.
Once you are selling, the records your state expects, ingredients, allergens and who bought what, are the part software helps with. The FDA recognises nine major food allergens, sesame added in 2023, and in ibakepro each one is tracked on the ingredient and rolls up through recipes to every product and order, as contains, processed in or may contain. See allergen management.
Dollars, sales tax and where US records sit
Tax. Sales tax is one of the tax types you can choose. You set your own rate and can set different rates by product category, and ibakepro applies the rate you configured. Whether your state taxes the cakes you sell, and at what rate, is set by your state and sometimes your city or county, so confirm it with your state's revenue department or your accountant.
Units. The unit system is a single setting that holds throughout, imperial or metric. Most US bakers work in cups, ounces and pounds, so pick imperial and let pack sizes convert on the way into a recipe.
Region. Three regions exist: Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom. You choose at signup, once, and it holds for the life of the account, including a second business opened under the same login. The full picture is in where is my data stored.
Text messages. A dedicated number is available in the US as an add-on, so customers can reply to a balance reminder or a pickup time by text and the reply lands in the Social Media inbox alongside Instagram and Messenger.
The parts US bakers lean on
Orders and quotes are the same record. One quote can carry several options, a half-sheet and a two-tier side by side, and the customer picks one and pays the deposit by card through your own Stripe account.
Deposits and payment schedules fit the usual US pattern of a deposit to hold the date and the balance due a set number of days before the event, with reminders that repeat until it is paid.
Recipe costing works from what you paid for each ingredient, so when eggs or butter move, every product that uses them shows its new margin. The cake pricing calculator walks through the arithmetic in dollars.
The storefront (Growth and Business) takes orders for a date with your lead times and blocked days respected, and limited-release drops suit the holiday boxes and cookie drops that fill the US calendar, covered in the US baking calendar.
The trial, and what to do with it
The trial runs 14 days on any plan, with that plan's full feature set, a card taken at signup and 25 Choux AI credits included. Two weeks is enough to load The Pantry, cost your three best sellers and see whether they make what you thought they did.
The country-by-country detail sits in does ibakepro work in my country.