Bakery software for UK bakers
ibakepro is bakery management software for bakeries that make to order, which in the UK usually means a home baker, a cake maker working from a registered domestic kitchen, or a small unit turning out celebration cakes and wholesale trays. It holds recipe and product costing, orders and quotes, ingredient inventory, deposits and balances, an online storefront, trade ordering, deliveries, food safety records and marketing in one account.
For a UK business the subscription is billed in pounds, 13 to 47 a month across three plans, and the European data region that holds UK and EU accounts is hosted in London. 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.
Quoting the way UK customers compare
The dominant UK convention for wedding and larger celebration cakes is a price per portion, and customers compare quotes on that basis whether or not you publish one. Two portion sizes are in common use and they differ by a factor of two: a wedding or finger portion at 2.5 cm by 2.5 cm, and a party or dessert portion at twice the depth. A quote that says which size it counted avoids most of the awkward conversations, and the per-portion rate is really a small ladder, one rate for buttercream, a higher one for fondant covered, a higher one again for sugar-flower work.
A quote in ibakepro can carry several options at once, so a couple can see a three-tier and a two-tier plus cutting cake side by side and choose one before their booking fee is taken. What UK customers assume is included, what the venue charges for and what sits outside the rate are covered in pricing celebration cakes in the UK market.
Pounds, VAT and where UK records sit
Tax. VAT is one of the tax types you can choose, alongside GST, sales tax and others. You set your own rate and can set different rates by product category, and ibakepro applies the rate you configured. UK consumers expect to see a price inclusive of tax, so pricing that way and letting the software carry the rate behind it matches what a customer is reading. What you owe and when you register are questions for your accountant.
Units. The unit system is a single setting that holds throughout, metric or imperial, which is worth a moment in a market where recipes come in grams and portion charts come in inches. Pick the one your suppliers quote in, then let conversions happen on the way into a recipe.
Region. Three regions exist, and the European one is hosted in London and serves both UK and EU customers. You choose at signup, once, and it holds for the life of the account, including a second business opened under the same login. Two minutes there is cheaper than a support conversation later, and the full picture is in where is my data stored.
Notifications. SMS reaches the United Kingdom, so a balance reminder or a collection slot can arrive by text, and email covers everything either way.
The parts UK bakers lean on
Orders and quotes are the same record, so a quote that converts carries the event date, the stock and the status across without retyping. That matters most on the wedding side, where the enquiry arrives many months before the cake does.
The product builder scales a bigger tier by volume against anchors you measured, so a portion count and a price follow the size rather than a multiplier somebody guessed at.
Deposits and payment schedules fit the common UK structure of a booking fee to hold the date and a balance due some weeks before the event, with the overdue ones surfaced rather than remembered.
The online storefront is a section-built site with a shop attached, priced from the same figures your quotes use, and allergen tracking rolls a tag on a single ingredient up through components and products onto the order line. When a supplier reformulates, affected products are flagged and the published label holds until a person applies the change. Which rules those records have to satisfy is set by your own regulator.
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 roughly the time it takes to load a pantry and rebuild your per-portion rate out of your own costs, rather than out of the rate you set two years ago and have been carrying since.
The country-by-country detail sits in does ibakepro work in my country.