Websites for bakeries
A website for your bakery, built for you
FreeWebGuy builds websites for bakeries: $0 to build and $15 a month for hosting once you approve the site. The first version comes within 48 hours of your brief. It carries today's bake list, your menu with prices, a custom-order request that asks the right questions, and the pickup rules your counter repeats all day.
Pay nothing until you approve it.
About 3 minutes. No credit card.
What a bakery website has to do
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Tell people what is in the case today
A bakery runs out. The croissants are gone by ten, the rye is a weekend thing, the cake needs three days' notice. Your site has to say what is available today and when it tends to sell out, because the customer who drove over for a loaf that was already gone remembers it.
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Take the custom order without a week of phone tag
Cakes, pastry boxes and event orders arrive with the same questions every time: the date, how many people, flavors, an inscription, pickup or delivery, allergies. A request form that asks all of it at once means your first reply is a quote instead of a list of questions.
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Make the rules of the shop clear
Bakeries keep early hours, close when the shelf is empty and need preorders by a cutoff. None of that is obvious to a new customer. Stating it in the same words on the site and on Google keeps the person who arrives at 3 p.m. to a shop that closed at 2 from writing a review about it.
The pages we build for a bakery
Your brief decides the final list. These are the pages most bakeries need, and the job each one does.
| Page | Why it is there |
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| Home | Today's bake list, hours and a preorder button at the top, with a photo of this morning's tray. |
| Menu | Everything you bake, grouped your way, each item with a description, a price and the days it is baked. |
| Custom orders | Lead times, sizes, flavors and deposit rules, with a form that collects the date, head count and occasion. |
| Preorder and pickup | The cutoff for tomorrow's bake, how to reserve a loaf under a name and where to collect it. |
| Wholesale and catering | Terms for cafes, offices and events, with minimums and delivery days. Only if you do that work. |
| Gallery | Your cakes and bread by occasion. Customers point at a photo and say "that one". |
| About | Who bakes, how long the starter has been alive and what you refuse to shortcut. |
| Visit | Address, hours by day, holiday closures, parking and what sells out first, next to a directions link. |
See a bakery website we designed
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Today's bake list, with times
The opening screen carries a bake sheet: each item, the time it comes out of the oven and how many were baked. A customer sees what is worth the trip and when to arrive.
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A filterable menu with prices
Three buttons sort the menu into sweet, savory and bread. Each item shows its price and a one-line description, and a note under the list tells people to ask about allergens and cross-contact.
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A pickup request that follows your rhythm
A short form takes a name, an email, the bake and a pickup window, and the section above it explains the cutoff: choose tomorrow's bread by this afternoon, collect it in the morning.
Open the full bakery website design example to click through it as a phone or desktop visitor would, or browse more restaurant and local shop website examples.
What to have ready for your brief
The brief takes about 3 minutes. Send what you have now; photos, documents and anything else on this list can follow by email.
- Your hours by day, and what usually sells out first
- The full menu with prices, and which items are daily, weekend-only or seasonal
- Your custom-order rules: lead times, sizes, flavors, deposits, minimums and whether you deliver
- How you want preorders to reach you: email, text, phone or the ordering system you already use
- 10 to 15 photos of pastries, bread, cakes and the shop, taken in morning light
- Your allergen statement, in the words you want customers to read
- Wholesale or catering terms, if you offer them
- If you bake from home, the registration your state's cottage food rules require, if you hold one
- Your Google Business Profile and Instagram links
What customers check before they visit
- What is available today, stated on the site, so the trip is not wasted
- Photos of your own product on your own trays
- Prices next to every item, and custom-order lead times and deposits stated up front
- An allergen note that tells people how to ask, and a staff that answers
- Hours that match Google. In BrightLocal's 2025 Consumer Search Behavior survey, 56% of people said they often or always check that a business's information is consistent across sources (BrightLocal, 2025).
- A food-service license or cottage food registration, if you hold one
What a bakery website costs
A bakery website from FreeWebGuy is $0 to build and $15 a month for hosting once you approve it: $180 for the first year, plus a domain if you need one.
| Route | What it costs | First year | Who builds it |
|---|---|---|---|
| DIY website builder | $17 to $49 a month, billed yearly | $204 to $588 | You build it |
| Freelance web designer | $2,000 to $7,600 to build, plus hosting | $2,060 to $7,900 | They build it |
| Web design agency | $5,000 to $15,000 to build, plus hosting | $5,060 to $15,300 | They build it |
| FreeWebGuy | $0 to build, $15 a month | $180, plus a domain if you need one | We build it |
Sources: Wix plans; Squarespace pricing; WebsiteSetup: small business website costs (updated November 22, 2025); Ueni: average cost for a website (updated September 22, 2026); Clutch: web designer pricing (updated September 21, 2026)
A bakery site with a menu, a bake list, a custom-order form and pickup details fits the standard build. Taking card payments for preorders or cakes online is included when we confirm it fits your plan, and your payment processor charges its own fees.
The pricing page lists what the $15 plan includes and what costs extra. To price your own situation, use the website cost calculator or compare FreeWebGuy with Wix, Squarespace and web designers.
Prefer to build it yourself?
Building your own bakery website works if you have the evenings for it. These five steps cover what the site needs on any website builder.
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Choose a website builder you can update from your phone, because the bake list changes every morning.
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Type the menu with prices and bake days, and add your allergen note under it.
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Write a custom-order page with lead times, sizes, flavors and deposit, then a form that asks for the date, head count and occasion.
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Photograph the case on a good morning, 10 to 15 shots, and use those instead of stock images.
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Put your hours and the sell-out warning on the site and on Google in the same words, then test the order form from your phone.
For a page-by-page checklist, read What should be on a small business website? A page-by-page checklist.
How FreeWebGuy builds it
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Send the brief
About 3 minutes
Tell us what you do and what you want visitors to do.
You pay $0
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We build it
Within 48 hours of your brief
We use AI to build fast. A person checks every first version before you see it.
You pay $0
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You review the preview
At your pace
Open the private link and tell us what to change.
You pay $0
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Approve and go live
When you decide
When you approve the preview, you set up your SMBcrm account and card for the $15 hosting plan.
You pay $15 a month starts here
If you are not ready to launch, you owe nothing.
Questions bakeries ask
Something else on your mind? Email hello@freewebguy.com. We reply within one business day.
How much does a bakery website cost?
A bakery website from FreeWebGuy is $0 to build and $15 a month for hosting once you approve it, so the first year is $180 plus a domain if you need one. No setup fee, no contract, and the preview is finished before you decide. The pricing page lists what costs extra.
What should a bakery website include?
A menu with prices and bake days, today's availability, your hours and address, custom-order rules with a request form, and photos of your own product. Add a wholesale page if cafes buy from you and a gallery if you do cakes. That is 5 to 8 pages for most bakeries.
How do custom cake orders work through a bakery website?
The custom-order page states your lead time, sizes, flavors and deposit, then a form asks for the date, servings, flavor, inscription, allergies and pickup or delivery. Each request arrives in your email with all of it together, so your reply can be a quote and a deposit link.
Can a bakery website take preorders and payments?
Yes, two ways. A request form emails you each preorder and you take payment at pickup, which is the simplest. Or a small online store takes payment for loaves, boxes and cakes, included when we confirm it fits your plan, with your payment processor's fee per order.
How do I show what is in the case today without rebuilding the site every morning?
Keep a short "today" list on the home page and edit it with the site's AI builder, which takes a minute from your phone while the first batch cools. For bakeries with a steady weekly pattern, a bake-day column on the menu does most of the work and the daily note covers sell-outs.
Can I sell baked goods from home through a website?
In most states, yes, under that state's cottage food law, which sets what you can sell, where and what the label must say. The rules differ by state; the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic keeps a fifty-state table of cottage food laws, and your state's health or agriculture department has the current text. The site states what you are registered for; the compliance is yours.
How should a bakery website handle allergens?
State what you bake with, name the common allergens in your kitchen, and tell customers to ask before ordering instead of promising any item is free of anything. The request form asks about allergies so you see them before you quote. The exact wording is yours; we put it next to the menu.
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- $0 to build
- First version within 48 hours of your brief
- $15 a month for hosting, only after you approve the preview and go live
- Month to month, no contract
When you approve the preview, you set up your SMBcrm account and card for the $15 hosting plan. That is the only time we ask for payment details.
