Built for small & cottage food businesses

You Focus on Flavor. We'll Handle the Rest.

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

A Butter & Sage shop on a computer
The same shop on a phone

Running a small food business is a lot.

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.)

Bea the bee
What you get when you sign up

Everything you need
to sell. In one
sweet stack.

Not just a shop page — a whole storefront, an event hub, and a spot on the map. Beautifully branded, live in under 10 minutes.

Branded Storefront Class & Event Pages Local Discovery Map
LIVE — plumstreet.bsage.shop
plumstreet.bsage.shop
Bea the Butter & Sage bee, pointing at your new shop
< 10 min To launch
0% Marketplace fee on classes

Your week, sorted

Everything a food business needs. Nothing it doesn't.

Point at any card to watch it work, or tap it to see it big.

All plans

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.

All plans

Orders out of your DMs

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

All plans

Prices that pay you back

Cost every recipe down to the pinch of salt and see what to charge before the butter price eats your weekend.

Maker & Bloom

Labels that follow the rules

Ingredients in weight order, allergens declared and your state's cottage food statement word for word. Print it, save it, reprint it next batch.

Maker & Bloom

Classes, events and subscriptions

Sell seats at your sourdough class or a weekly bread box that renews itself. Classes don't count against most cottage sales caps.

All plans

A customer list you own

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.

All plans

Found by people who shop local

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.

Bloom

Look polished everywhere

Pick your color, style and fonts once. Booth signs, business cards and this week's menu post come out matching, no designer needed.

Maker & Bloom

Know your numbers

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

All the little jobs that used to need five other apps.

  • Order emails that send themselves Every customer gets a confirmation, a pickup reminder and a calendar invite, without you typing a word.
  • Bake-day lists that write themselves Prep & pack adds up what to bake and bags it by customer, synced to your calendar.
  • No more overselling Stock counts down as orders come in, and order caps close a drop the moment it’s full.
  • Coupons and drops Run a Saturday drop or a first-order discount from the same place you take the orders.
  • Your sales cap, watched The tracker keeps a running total against your state’s yearly cottage food limit.
  • Reviews that ask for themselves One click sends a happy customer straight to your review page. Maker & Bloom
  • A shopping list from your orders This week’s orders turn into flour, butter and sugar amounts, with alerts when stock runs low. Maker & Bloom
  • Cash and cards at the booth Record cash sales on Maker, take cards in person on Bloom, and see it all with your online orders. Maker & Bloom

Every feature, side by side, in the plan-by-plan table.

Bea's buzz

Watch a shop go live in under ten minutes.

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.

Bea the bee

Seen enough? Your shop can be live this afternoon.

The easiest way to make your labels

Paste It, Snap It or Link It. Your Label Writes Itself.

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 it, snap it or link it.

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.

  • Paste, photo or link
  • Every line matched

Step 2 · Store-bought

Using a mix? Pick it from the list.

Cake and brownie mixes, frostings, chips and sprinkles. Search by product or brand and pick the one in your cupboard.

  • Search by product or brand
  • Mixes, frostings, chips and more

Step 3 · The fine print

Its whole ingredient list, filled in for you.

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.

  • No copying the box
  • Allergens picked up

Step 4 · Label it

One click, and it is a label.

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.

  • Weight order, automatic
  • Allergens from every box

Step 5 · Required info

Your state's rules, checked as you go.

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.

  • Your state's exact wording
  • Checked before you print

Step 6 · Your style

Then make it beautiful.

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.

  • 8 house styles
  • Saved for the next batch
The Cake Mix Cookies label in the Stamped design: Honey & Rye Bakehouse, net weight 7.4 ounces, the full ingredient list with the cake mix, chips and sprinkles each followed by their own ingredients in brackets, contains wheat, milk, soy, eggs, a QR code and the Texas cottage food statement.
Stamped
The Cake Mix Cookies label in the Sprinkle design: Honey & Rye Bakehouse, net weight 7.4 ounces, the full ingredient list with the cake mix, chips and sprinkles each followed by their own ingredients in brackets, contains wheat, milk, soy, eggs, a QR code and the Texas cottage food statement.
Sprinkle
The Cake Mix Cookies label in the Chalkboard design: Honey & Rye Bakehouse, net weight 7.4 ounces, the full ingredient list with the cake mix, chips and sprinkles each followed by their own ingredients in brackets, contains wheat, milk, soy, eggs, a QR code and the Texas cottage food statement.
Chalkboard
The Cake Mix Cookies label in the Bold design: Honey & Rye Bakehouse, net weight 7.4 ounces, the full ingredient list with the cake mix, chips and sprinkles each followed by their own ingredients in brackets, contains wheat, milk, soy, eggs, a QR code and the Texas cottage food statement.
Bold

Meet your helper

Bea handles the parts you'd rather not.

You didn't start baking sourdough so you could write product descriptions at 11 p.m. Bea is the helper built into every shop.

  • Sets up your shop with you One question at a time, until you're live.
  • Writes like you on a good day Tell her what's in the jar and she drafts the description.
  • Answers your customers Questions about pickup, ingredients and custom orders, right on your shop page — and she passes the tricky ones to you.

Bea's basics come with every shop; her AI writing and recipe reading unlock on Maker and Bloom.

Bea helping a vendor in the dashboard

Like what Bea does? She comes with every shop.

What used to cost you a weekend

Polished Everywhere Customers See You. Table, Bag And Feed.

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

Start with the colour you already use.

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.

  • 28 colours or your own hex
  • 5 pairings for each

Step 2 · Style

Then a style that sounds like you.

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.

  • 8 house styles
  • Each drawn in your colour

Step 3 · Type

Your fonts come with it.

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.

  • 15 type pairings
  • Matched to every style

Then · Everything else

And everything is already made.

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.

  • Print-ready at true size
  • Posts sized for the feed
Try it right here

Type your shop name. Watch it come to life.

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.

Bea
Hero layoutYour hero, your rules
Your lookStays on this page — never uploaded
Both are optional — Bea fills in tasteful placeholders until you do.
Brand colorButtons, headings, accents
Product cardsHow the menu reads
butterandsagemarket.com/vendors/your-shop
Live preview
Bea
Your storefront goes here
Go ahead — type a shop name.
Bea builds it in front of you. Then play: switch the hero, try your colors, drop in your logo and your best photo.
Claim this shop free
Powered by Butter & Sage Market

Or see a real shop →

Free to start. No card needed.

Meet the founder

Hi! I'm Amy, and I'm so glad you're here.

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

Amy Larsen, founder of Butter & Sage Market

The honest comparison

How Does Butter & Sage Stack Up?

No marketing spin — just a straight look at what each platform actually gives you.

Compare with
⭐ 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
Yes / Included Not available Partial / Conditional

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

Start free. Upgrade when it pays for itself.

No listing fees, no setup fees, no contracts. Your money goes straight to your own Stripe account.

Monthly Annual Save up to $100

Starter

Free

free forever

 

4% commission on sales
  • Your own branded shop page
  • Up to 10 products
  • Found on the marketplace map and farmers market directory
  • Customers pick pickup or delivery times
  • Drops, order caps and shipping where allowed
  • Never oversell — inventory that tracks itself
  • Grow an email & text list you can download anytime
  • Coupons
  • Prep & pack lists that sync to your calendar
  • Sales-cap tracker for your state’s cottage law
  • Basic sales numbers for the last 7, 30 or 90 days
  • Social links & vacation mode

Bloom

$ 16.67 /mo

billed annually

or $200/yr  Save $100/yr

0% commission
  • Everything in Maker
  • Plan market day: what to bake and how much
  • Several pickup spots, each with its own hours and season
  • Expenses, mileage & a Profit & Loss report for your accountant
  • Text your customers
  • Build-your-own boxes
  • Win back abandoned carts
  • Take cards in person
  • Snap a recipe card, receipt or price tag and it fills itself in
  • Shipping limits
  • Brand Generator: your look on every sign and card
  • Social Studio: posts made from your products
  • Custom fonts & video headers

No contracts  ·  No setup fees  ·  Cancel anytime

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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?

Tick what sounds like you.

We'll match you to the plan that takes those jobs off your plate, and tell you why.

Tick everything that sounds like you

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

Everything you get, plan by plan

Start free, and upgrade when your business is ready for more. Here’s exactly what each plan includes.

Features included in each Butter & Sage Market plan
StarterFreefree foreverMost PopularMaker$15/moor $100/yrBloom$25/moor $200/yr
Plan basics
Commission on your sales4%0%0%
Product listingsUp to 10UnlimitedUnlimited
Your shop
Branded shop pageIncludedIncludedIncluded
Custom page sectionsIncludedIncludedIncluded
Social links & vacation modeIncludedIncludedIncluded
Staff accountsIncludedIncludedIncluded
Variable & downloadable productsNot includedIncludedIncluded
Custom fontsNot includedNot includedIncluded
Video headersNot includedNot includedIncluded
Getting found
Marketplace discovery listingIncludedIncludedIncluded
Farmers market directory listingIncludedIncludedIncluded
Import your customer reviewsIncludedIncludedIncluded
Review requestsNot includedIncludedIncluded
Taking orders
DropsIncludedIncludedIncluded
Pickup & delivery calendarIncludedIncludedIncluded
Multiple pickup locationsPartly included:One — your shop addressPartly included:One — your shop addressIncludedAs many as you like, each with its own days, hours & season
ShippingIncludedIncludedIncluded
Shipping limitsNot includedNot includedIncluded
Inventory & order protectionIncludedIncludedIncluded
Prep & pack with calendar syncIncludedIncludedIncluded
CouponsIncludedIncludedIncluded
Custom orders, invoicing & customer chatNot includedIncludedIncluded
Classes & eventsNot includedIncludedIncluded
SubscriptionsNot includedIncludedIncluded
Build-your-own box ordersNot includedNot includedIncluded
Record cash & other in-person salesNot includedIncludedIncluded
Cash on deliveryNot includedIncludedIncluded
Point of Sale — take cards in personNot includedNot includedIncluded
Marketing
Email & SMS subscriber sign-upsIncludedIncludedIncluded
Email marketingNot includedIncludedIncluded
Texting your customersNot includedNot includedIncluded
Abandoned cart recoveryNot includedNot includedIncluded
QR code generatorNot includedIncludedIncluded
Brand GeneratorPartly included:Booth placard onlyPartly included:2 house stylesIncludedAll styles & color schemes
Social StudioNot includedPartly included:Weekly menu graphicIncludedEvery post layout
Labels & recipes
Label Maker — cottage-law compliantNot includedIncludedClassic designsIncluded
House-style labelsNot includedNot includedIncluded
Store-bought ingredients filled from the packageNot includedIncludedIncluded
Saved recipesNot includedIncludedWith real costsIncludedWith real costs
Recipe importsNot includedIncludedLinks, including messy pagesIncludedLinks, messy pages & recipe photos
Running the business
Bea, your AI assistantPartly included:Help & how-toIncludedFull access, including writingIncludedFull access, including writing
Pricing Calculator with cost alertsNot includedIncludedIncluded
Batch scalingNot includedIncludedIncluded
Profit trackingNot includedIncludedIncluded
Refer & EarnIncludedIncludedIncluded
Shopping lists from your ordersNot includedIncludedIncluded
Stock alertsNot includedIncludedIncluded
Market PlannerNot includedNot includedIncluded
Sales analyticsPartly included:Overview of the last 7, 30 or 90 daysIncludedIncluded
Advanced analyticsNot includedIncludedSales, customer, product & profit reports and insights, any dates, downloadableIncludedSales, customer, product & profit reports and insights, any dates, downloadable
Expenses, mileage & Profit & LossNot includedNot includedIncluded
Cottage law sales cap trackerIncludedIncludedIncluded

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.

If you bake it, grow it, jar it, teach it or gather it, you belong here.

  • Home bakers
  • Cottage cooks
  • Jam & jelly makers
  • Pickles & preserves
  • Backyard eggs
  • Small farms
  • Market gardeners
  • Cooking & baking classes
  • Specialty foods

Whether your kitchen smells like cinnamon rolls or sourdough starter (or both), this place was built for you.

From their kitchen to yours.

I use BAS — so easy & extremely customizable!
Melissa, Bread & Beauty Wellness
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.
Heather, Flowers & Ferment
I love the way the site looks. Prep & pack has made bake days so much easier.
Jennifer, Golden Artisan
Bea the bee, thinking

Questions

The stuff vendors usually want to know.

How much does it cost?

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.

When do I get paid?

Every sale goes straight to your own Stripe account. Stripe pays out to your bank on your schedule, often the next business day.

Do I need a Stripe account?

Yes. It's free and takes about five minutes, and Bea walks you through it during setup.

What about cottage food laws in my state?

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.

Do I have to ship?

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.

Is this for hobbyists or real businesses?

Both. Two loaves a week or sixty jars on a Saturday, it's the same tools. You upgrade only once it pays for itself.

I'm not techy. Can I do this?

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.

Can I cancel anytime?

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.

Your kitchen's ready. Your shop can be too.

Free to start, live this afternoon. Fresh. Local. Sustainable.

Bea the bee