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Bakery App for Windows: A Fair Roundup for Home Bakers
What the Microsoft Store actually has for Windows, and how to take orders and get paid from a computer.
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Most people typing this are standing in a kitchen with flour on their hands, wondering why every app they find wants to live on their phone. Here is a fair look at what is out there for Windows, and what to check before you pay for anything.
What the Microsoft Store actually offers
Search the Microsoft Store and you will find three kinds of results, and none of them is a shop.
Recipe Keeper is described in its own listing as “the easy to use, all-in-one recipe organizer, shopping list and meal planner available across all of your devices.” If what you want is your recipes, your shopping list, and your week in one place, that is exactly what it does.
My Cupcake Bakery is a free download on the Microsoft Store for Windows. Its listing says it offers baking and decorating with “100s of gorgeous liners, frostings, and decorations.” That is a decorating game, and it is honest about being one.
Bakery DLC is a Microsoft Store download for Windows that adds a baking mechanic to a supermarket game, where you “prepare and serve warm” goods. Again, a game.
Nothing in those three listings describes taking an order from a customer or getting money into your account. That is not a knock on any of them. They were never built to do it. It just means that if you sell from home, the Microsoft Store is not where your shop lives.
What a selling app has to do on a computer
A few things, and none of them are fancy.
- Let a customer see your menu, your photos, and your prices without messaging you first.
- Take a card payment, plus the ways people actually pay you, like Venmo, Cash App, Zelle, and cash.
- Keep your recipes and what they cost you, so you are not guessing at your prices.
- Work on your computer when you are doing the books, and on your phone when you are out delivering.
If an app misses the first two, it is not a selling app. It is a notebook.
How to choose one, step by step
Write down how you actually sell
Are your orders coming through texts, messages, and a market stall? Write that down first, because the app has to fit that, not the other way around.
Check it runs on a computer
Open it on your laptop and try to run one whole order, start to finish. If you have to finish it on your phone, it is a phone app.
Ask how you get paid and what it costs
Find out whether the money lands in your own account or theirs, and whether they take a percentage of every sale.
Ask what happens to your photos and past orders
If you ever leave, you want to take your menu, your photos, and your customer list with you.
Why home bakers choose Brevl
Brevl is $20 a month flat, with no cut of your sales. There is a 14 day free trial. You take card payments through your own Stripe or Square account, plus Venmo, Cash App, Zelle, and cash. Your shop is yours to make look like you, with your photos, your colors, and your own web address. It runs on a computer and on a phone.
And you are not doing the move alone at midnight. We set it up with you and move your old shop over, products, photos, reviews, and dates. A real person answers, usually within minutes.
You can see the side by side at Brevl vs Bakesy and start the move at Switch.
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Keep reading
- Bakery App for PC: A Fair Roundup for Home Bakers
- Home Bakery App: A Fair Roundup for Home Bakers
- Payment Software for Small Bakeries: A Fair Roundup for Home Bakers
Common questions
Is there a bakery app for Windows that takes orders?
The bakery apps listed in the Microsoft Store are recipe organizers and baking games. Brevl is the one built for selling from home. It works on a computer and on a phone, and you take card payments through your own Stripe or Square account.
Do I have to give up a percentage of every sale?
Not with Brevl. It is one flat $20 a month and 0% commission, so the full amount a customer pays you stays with you. There is a 14 day free trial.
Is Recipe Keeper a bakery app?
No. Its own listing describes it as a recipe organizer, shopping list and meal planner that works across your devices. That is a useful thing to have, but it does not take an order or a payment.
Can I run my shop from my laptop instead of my phone?
With Brevl you can. It gives you a full desktop workspace, not a phone only app, so you can take an order, check what a recipe costs you, and plan the week on the computer, then use your phone when you are out.
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