Know what every bake really costs.
Recipe costing, stock, orders, and invoices for small bakeries. Start with one recipe. Know what it costs to make and what to charge.
Free plan. No card needed.
What it costs.
What to charge.
Ingredients, sub-recipes, and labor roll into one cost per unit. Butterbase shows the price that holds your margin. Change what you pay for flour once, and every recipe that uses it re-costs.
| Bread flour | 500 g | $0.64 |
|---|---|---|
| Butter, unsalted | 250 g | $2.10 |
| Almond cream | 300 g | $7.02 |
| Egg wash | 1 ea | $0.18 |
| Labor | 20 min | $2.90 |
| Batch of 12 | $12.84 | |
| Cost per croissant | $1.07 | |
| Price to hold 69% | $3.50 | |
Example recipe from the Butterbase screen shown here.
One unit of that batch, cross-sectioned. This one cost $1.07 to make.
The bake is the easy part.
Butterbase carries the rest of the day. Stock, production runs, orders, clients, and invoices all read from the same recipes, so a number is only ever entered once.
Log the bake
+36 eaA production run comes off the recipe. Flour, butter, and almond cream draw down from stock the moment you log it.
Stock is the running sum of those movements. Nothing overwrites a number.
Fill the orders
6 ordersWholesale rounds and one-off client orders sit in one list, priced from the same recipes. Fulfilling an order takes the loaves off stock.
Sell at the stall
$28.00Kiosk mode already knows your products and your market prices. Tap to Pay on iPhone is rolling out.
Send the invoice
Invoice #1042The invoice is built from the order you already filled. Nothing is typed twice.
$1.07, $3.50, $12.84 and 69% are read off the recipe screen at the top of this page. The movements are three batches of that recipe. The rest is one working day, not a benchmark.
See every feature
Take the money where the bread is.
11:30 · Saturday market · Kiosk mode on iPhone
Open kiosk mode at the stall with your products and market prices ready. Tap to Pay on iPhone is rolling out. Card payments on your iPhone will be available after the rollout. You can record cash sales in kiosk mode now.
Invoicing, payments, and market mode are on Pro.
The rest of the week, in the same place.
The other four days, and the paperwork that comes with them.
Orders
Take an order for a client and move it from confirmed to ready to delivered.
Clients
Contacts, notes, and standing preferences, attached to the order.
Invoices
Raise an invoice from an order, send a payment link, record what lands.
Shopping lists
Build the list from low stock and next week's production, then close it with a photo of the receipt.
On your phone
The same bakery on iOS. In TestFlight now.
$0 or $29. That is the whole price list.
Everything to run the kitchen is free. Pro is for the day you start taking money.
Compare the plansRecipes, costing, stock, production runs, orders, clients, and shopping lists.
Start freeNo card. No trial clock.
Everything in Free, plus invoicing, payments, kiosk, and the public API.
Go ProBilled monthly. Cancel anytime.
Butterbase started with my siblings. They are the bakers. I am the software engineer, more than fifteen years in. This version is a rebuild, and everything moved with it: 500+ bakeries and 1,300+ recipes came across, with every ingredient, price and invoice still attached.
Both counts come from the migration itself.
Read our storyTwo minutes to your first costed recipe.
Bring one recipe and what you pay for flour, butter, and sugar. Butterbase will tell you what it costs to make and what to charge.