What is ibakepro?

ibakepro is bakery management software for bakeries that make to order: home bakers, cake decorators, market bakers and small commercial bakeries. It covers recipe and product costing, orders and quotes, ingredient inventory, deposits and payments, an online storefront, wholesale ordering, deliveries, food safety records and marketing, from 17 to 59 US dollars a month depending on plan.

One account holds the whole chain, from the price you paid a supplier for a sack of flour through to what a finished order made.

What it is used for

• Knowing what a product costs to make. A pantry item carries the price you paid, units convert on the way into a recipe, and a supplier price change rewrites every cost that depends on it. See recipe costing.
• Building the catalogue. Products are built from components, components from pantry items, and a bigger size is scaled by volume against anchors you measured. See the product builder.
• Running orders. A quote and an order are the same record, so converting one carries the event date, the stock and the status straight through. See orders and quotes.
• Taking the money. Set a deposit rule once and ibakepro sizes it per order, tracks what is still owed and flags payments that have gone past their date. The customer pays from a private page for their order.
• Holding stock. Ingredients and supplies are tracked as you hold them, with what is already committed to orders visible before it leaves the shelf. See pantry and stock.
• Selling. A section-built website with a shop attached, limited-release drops, and a private ordering area where trade accounts sign in and see the prices attached to their own account. See the online storefront.

Alongside those sit allergen tracking that rolls up from ingredient to order line, food safety records you can print for an inspector, delivery runs and courier dispatch, email and SMS marketing, automations, expenses, accounting sync, tasks, analytics and calendar sync. Each part has its own page under features.

Who it is for

Three shapes of bakery, each with its own answer:

• Home bakers selling regularly who want to know which orders made money. Is ibakepro right for a home baker.
• Cake decorators quoting per job, with deposits, event dates and flavour and size choices. Is it right for a cake decorator.
• Bakeries supplying cafes and stockists at negotiated prices and invoicing on terms. Is it right for a bakery selling wholesale.

Where it runs

There are three data regions, Australia, the United States and Europe, with the European region hosted in London for both UK and EU customers. You choose yours at signup.

Your business sets its own currency, timezone, date format, unit system, metric or imperial throughout, and tax type with your own rate. Subscriptions are billed in US dollars, Australian dollars, pounds sterling, euros, Canadian dollars or New Zealand dollars. Card payments work anywhere Stripe operates, and customer notifications go by email everywhere, with SMS available in Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. The full picture is in does ibakepro work in my country.

What it costs

Three plans, 17 to 59 US dollars a month, with equivalent prices set in five other currencies and about 20 percent off for paying yearly. The plan-by-plan breakdown, including the costs that sit outside the subscription, is what does bakery software cost.

Where to start

Every plan opens with a 14-day free trial carrying everything that plan includes, a card is required at signup, and 25 Choux AI credits come free. The fortnight is best spent building your pantry and costing a few real products.

Everything written about the product and about running a bakery lives in one place, at learn.