A shop that looks like you
Your name, colors, photos and story on a shop you'd happily put in your bio, with pickup times, drops and shipping where your state allows it.
Built for small & cottage food businesses
Your own shop, orders that don't live in your DMs, labels that pass your state's rules, and prices that actually pay you. Free to start, live this afternoon.
No card needed to start · Cancel anytime · Your customer list is always yours


If you're doing it all on your own — baking, packing, answering “is this still available?” at 10 p.m., and having the occasional existential crisis about a 3 a.m. special-order cake — you know how heavy it gets. You didn't start this to wrestle spreadsheets and Instagram DMs. You started it to share what you make.
So let us take the boring parts. (You can use the extra time for a nap. We won't tell.)

Not just a shop page — a whole storefront, an event hub, and a spot on the map. Beautifully branded, live in under 10 minutes.
Your week, sorted
Point at any card to watch it work, or tap it to see it big.
Your name, colors, photos and story on a shop you'd happily put in your bio, with pickup times, drops and shipping where your state allows it.
Customers pick a pickup time at checkout. Custom requests arrive with the details, a quote and a deposit, and order limits stop you overselling a Saturday.
Custom orders on Maker & Bloom
Cost every recipe down to the pinch of salt and see what to charge before the butter price eats your weekend.
Ingredients in weight order, allergens declared and your state's cottage food statement word for word. Print it, save it, reprint it next batch.
Sell seats at your sourdough class or a weekly bread box that renews itself. Classes don't count against most cottage sales caps.
A sign-up pop-up on your shop grows your email and text list. Download it anytime, and stop letting an algorithm decide who sees your next drop.
Your shop sits on our marketplace map and on the page of every farmers market you sell at, so Saturday shoppers find you before they leave home.
Pick your color, style and fonts once. Booth signs, business cards and this week's menu post come out matching, no designer needed.
Profit on every order, plus expenses, mileage and a profit and loss your accountant will love.
Expenses and profit & loss on Bloom
And that’s only the headline act
Every feature, side by side, in the plan-by-plan table.
Bea's buzz
This is the real My Store screen: pick a header, add your photos and products, choose your colors and publish. Bea sits beside you the whole time.

Seen enough? Your shop can be live this afternoon.
The easiest way to make your labels
Bring the recipe you already have: pasted in, photographed, or straight from a website. Every ingredient is matched and weighed for you. Store-bought mix in there? Pick it from our list and its whole ingredient list comes with it. Then it is a label, in weight order, allergens declared, checked against your state's rules, in a design that looks like you. Here is one real bakery's cake mix cookies, start to finish.
Step 1 · Your recipe
Paste the list from wherever it lives, take a photo of the recipe card, or drop in a link from your favourite food site. Every line is read, matched to your ingredients and weighed. Nothing to retype.
Step 2 · Store-bought
Cake and brownie mixes, frostings, chips and sprinkles. Search by product or brand and pick the one in your cupboard.
Step 3 · The fine print
Pick it and the package's ingredient list arrives with it, bracketed after its name the way a label has to show a store-bought ingredient, with its allergens ticked. Glance at the box in your hand, tick, done.
Step 4 · Label it
Make a label opens the Label Maker with everything in place: ingredients in weight order, the mix with its own list in brackets, and the allergens from every box declared. Wheat, milk, soy, eggs.
Step 5 · Required info
Your state's cottage food statement is filled in word for word. Add the net weight and the date you made it, and the checklist goes green when every line the law asks for is on the label.
Step 6 · Your style
Eight house styles, each in your own colours, matching your booth sign and your posts. The longest ingredient list still fits inside the cut line, and the label is saved for the next batch.




Meet your helper
You didn't start baking sourdough so you could write product descriptions at 11 p.m. Bea is the helper built into every shop.
Bea's basics come with every shop; her AI writing and recipe reading unlock on Maker and Bloom.

Like what Bea does? She comes with every shop.
What used to cost you a weekend
Three choices, about a minute, and every sign, card and post after that comes out matching. Here is the whole thing, start to finish, for a real bakery.
Step 1 · Colour
Pick from 28, or type the exact hex code on your sign or your packaging. Then choose what it pairs with — charcoal, brass, its opposite — and that one colour follows you onto your shop page and your labels too.
Step 2 · Style
Eight house styles, from the quiet Farmhouse to Sprinkle's gingham. Every tile is drawn in your colour, with your shop's name on it, so you choose with your eyes instead of guessing from a name.
Step 3 · Type
Every style arrives with fonts chosen for it, set in your own shop name. Want a different voice? There are 15 pairings, and the one you pick can dress your shop page too.
Then · Everything else
Your booth sign, your banner, this week's menu, a post for one product and the sold-out notice — filled in from the products, prices, photos and pickup times already in your shop. Print it or post it, and get back to baking.






Pick a layout and a color, add your logo and a photo, and see your storefront change as you go. No sign-up, nothing uploaded.


Free to start. No card needed.
Meet the founder
I spent 25+ years building growth strategies for big companies. The businesses I love to buy from — the bakers, growers and makers in my own town — never had anyone like that in their corner. So I built you one.
I'm an avid baker, a farmers-market regular, and the person who actually knows how to grow a business. Pull up a chair. This place was built for you.
— Amy Larsen, Founder

The honest comparison
No marketing spin — just a straight look at what each platform actually gives you.
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⭐ Best for Food Vendors
Butter & Sage Market Free · $8.33 · $16.67/mo billed annually | HotPlate No monthly + ~5%/order | Bakesy $9.99–$17.99/mo | Homegrown $10/mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing & Access | ||||
| Free to start | Free forever — pay 4% only when you make a sale | Free to open — pay only when you sell (no flat-plan upgrade available) | $30 free credit / 30-day trial; monthly plan required after | 6 months free if first in your area; $10/mo after |
| No per-sale platform commission | Maker & Bloom: flat monthly, zero commission. Free Starter plan: 4% commission. | Charges customers ~5%+$0.55 per order on top of Stripe processing | No commission — collect payments your way | No commission — flat monthly + Stripe processing |
| Discovery | ||||
| Buyers can discover you | Two-sided marketplace | Solo storefront — no cross-discovery | No marketplace | Homegrown directory |
| Farmers market directory | 13,000+ markets — inherit their search traffic | Pickup-location focus only | ||
| Local food directories | CSAs, farms, agritourism, food hubs | |||
| Storefront & Selling | ||||
| Professional shop design | 3 templates, color palettes, live preview | Basic logo & branding only | Simple website, minimal options | Basic order page |
| Multiple selling models | Standard shop, drops, pickup, or custom orders — mix, match & change as you grow | Drops & pre-orders only | Custom orders only | Pickup scheduling only |
| All food types welcome | Baked goods only | |||
| In-person market POS | Tap-to-pay reader OR customer QR scan (Apple/Google Pay) — every sale lands in your orders dashboard automatically. Bloom plan. | Online only — use Square separately for in-person | No POS — record cash sales by hand | Customer self-service QR only — no vendor-operated terminal |
| Events & class listings | Tickets, RSVPs, automated reminders, add-to-calendar, 0% fee | Pop-ups & market dates only | ||
| Marketing & Growth | ||||
| Email & text marketing | Free: subscriber capture & list. Paid plan: email & text sends | Automated order notifications | Limited | Customer list only, no sends |
| Abandoned cart recovery | ||||
| Social studio | Bloom | |||
| Business Tools | ||||
| Market planner & profitability | Profit tracking on Maker & Bloom · Market Planner on Bloom | |||
| Brand generator | Bloom | |||
| Revenue & expense tracker | Full P&L dashboard on Bloom | |||
| Auto shopping list from orders | Aggregates ingredients across all pending orders by recipe | Prep list (what to make) — not an ingredient purchasing list | ||
| Pricing & cost calculator | Paid plan from $15/mo — less than Bakesy's $17.99 tier | Available on paid plan — $17.99/mo | ||
| Cottage-compliant label maker | Maker & Bloom · auto-fills allergens, prints a legal label | |||
| AI business assistant | Bea — setup, customer Q&A, onboarding | |||
All platforms pass standard credit card processing (Stripe or equivalent) to the vendor — this is the industry norm and not a platform distinction. HotPlate’s distinction: no monthly fee, but customers pay a ~5% + $0.55 platform surcharge on every order. BAS’s free Starter plan (4% vendor commission) costs less than HotPlate’s surcharge on every order, whatever its size. As sales grow, BAS’s Maker and Bloom plans — flat monthly, zero commission — beat per-order pricing at any volume. Bakesy Secure Payments charges 3.9% + $0.30; vendors can also collect cash or other payments directly at no fee. Competitor data current as of June 2026.
Plans & prices
No listing fees, no setup fees, no contracts. Your money goes straight to your own Stripe account.
free forever
4% commission on sales
billed annually
or $100/yr Save $80/yr
0% commissionbilled annually
or $200/yr Save $100/yr
0% commissionNo contracts · No setup fees · Cancel anytime

14-day free trial when you open a new shop on Maker or Bloom · Standard card processing applies on every plan
Which plan is right for me?
We'll match you to the plan that takes those jobs off your plate, and tell you why.
Tick a few on the left and your plan shows up here.Tick a few above and your plan shows up here.
Change plans anytime from your dashboard. The 14-day free trial is for new shops on Maker or Bloom.
Compare plans
Start free, and upgrade when your business is ready for more. Here’s exactly what each plan includes.
| StarterFreefree forever | Most PopularMaker$15/moor $100/yr | Bloom$25/moor $200/yr | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plan basics | |||
| Commission on your sales | 4% | 0% | 0% |
| Product listings | Up to 10 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Your shop | |||
| Branded shop page | Included | Included | Included |
| Custom page sections | Included | Included | Included |
| Social links & vacation mode | Included | Included | Included |
| Staff accounts | Included | Included | Included |
| Variable & downloadable products | Not included | Included | Included |
| Custom fonts | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Video headers | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Getting found | |||
| Marketplace discovery listing | Included | Included | Included |
| Farmers market directory listing | Included | Included | Included |
| Import your customer reviews | Included | Included | Included |
| Review requests | Not included | Included | Included |
| Taking orders | |||
| Drops | Included | Included | Included |
| Pickup & delivery calendar | Included | Included | Included |
| Multiple pickup locations | Partly included:One — your shop address | Partly included:One — your shop address | IncludedAs many as you like, each with its own days, hours & season |
| Shipping | Included | Included | Included |
| Shipping limits | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Inventory & order protection | Included | Included | Included |
| Prep & pack with calendar sync | Included | Included | Included |
| Coupons | Included | Included | Included |
| Custom orders, invoicing & customer chat | Not included | Included | Included |
| Classes & events | Not included | Included | Included |
| Subscriptions | Not included | Included | Included |
| Build-your-own box orders | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Record cash & other in-person sales | Not included | Included | Included |
| Cash on delivery | Not included | Included | Included |
| Point of Sale — take cards in person | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Marketing | |||
| Email & SMS subscriber sign-ups | Included | Included | Included |
| Email marketing | Not included | Included | Included |
| Texting your customers | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Abandoned cart recovery | Not included | Not included | Included |
| QR code generator | Not included | Included | Included |
| Brand Generator | Partly included:Booth placard only | Partly included:2 house styles | IncludedAll styles & color schemes |
| Social Studio | Not included | Partly included:Weekly menu graphic | IncludedEvery post layout |
| Labels & recipes | |||
| Label Maker — cottage-law compliant | Not included | IncludedClassic designs | Included |
| House-style labels | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Store-bought ingredients filled from the package | Not included | Included | Included |
| Saved recipes | Not included | IncludedWith real costs | IncludedWith real costs |
| Recipe imports | Not included | IncludedLinks, including messy pages | IncludedLinks, messy pages & recipe photos |
| Running the business | |||
| Bea, your AI assistant | Partly included:Help & how-to | IncludedFull access, including writing | IncludedFull access, including writing |
| Pricing Calculator with cost alerts | Not included | Included | Included |
| Batch scaling | Not included | Included | Included |
| Profit tracking | Not included | Included | Included |
| Refer & Earn | Included | Included | Included |
| Shopping lists from your orders | Not included | Included | Included |
| Stock alerts | Not included | Included | Included |
| Market Planner | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Sales analytics | Partly included:Overview of the last 7, 30 or 90 days | Included | Included |
| Advanced analytics | Not included | IncludedSales, customer, product & profit reports and insights, any dates, downloadable | IncludedSales, customer, product & profit reports and insights, any dates, downloadable |
| Expenses, mileage & Profit & Loss | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Cottage law sales cap tracker | Included | Included | Included |
Maker and Bloom are 0% commission — you pay for the plan, and every sale is yours. Standard card processing applies on every plan. Starter is free, with a 4% commission only when you make a sale.
Whether your kitchen smells like cinnamon rolls or sourdough starter (or both), this place was built for you.
I use BAS — so easy & extremely customizable!
I recommend having a platform ready to go to send people for pre-orders. They have a geographical link also to find other farm stands in your area. This did not take me very long to set up and it's an incredible company.
I love the way the site looks. Prep & pack has made bake days so much easier.

Questions
Opening a shop and listing products is free. On Starter, we take 4% of a sale only when you make one. Maker ($100 a year, or $15 month to month) and Bloom ($200 a year, or $25 month to month) have no commission. Selling more than about $210 a month? Maker on the yearly plan costs less than the commission would.
Every sale goes straight to your own Stripe account. Stripe pays out to your bank on your schedule, often the next business day.
Yes. It's free and takes about five minutes, and Bea walks you through it during setup.
Rules vary by state. Our state-by-state guides spell them out, the Label Maker adds your state's required statement, and the sales-cap tracker watches your yearly limit.
Nope. Most vendors offer pickup at home, at a market or by porch drop-off. Shipping is there when your state and your product allow it.
Both. Two loaves a week or sixty jars on a Saturday, it's the same tools. You upgrade only once it pays for itself.
If you can text a friend, you can set up a shop. Bea helps at every step, and a real human is one click away.
Yes. No contracts, no cancellation fees. Cancel a paid plan and you drop back to Starter at the end of the billing period; your shop stays live and your customer list stays yours.
Free to start, live this afternoon. Fresh. Local. Sustainable.
