Choosing tools
Bakesy vs Shopify: An Honest Comparison for Home Bakers
A plain checklist for choosing between Bakesy and Shopify, and an honest look at where Brevl fits.
On this page
- Start with what you sell, not with the logo
- The five questions to ask both of them
- Cost: look past the headline number
- Getting paid is the part people skip
- Your shop should look like your baking
- Phone at 6am, computer at 9pm
- What leaving looks like
- Why home bakers choose Brevl
- A fair way to decide this week
- Related reading
You have probably read both names in the same afternoon and come away more confused than when you started. That is normal. One name travels through baking groups and local seller chats. The other is a name you have seen far outside baking, attached to shops of every kind.
I am not going to print a price table for either one here. Plans and prices change, and I could not confirm today’s numbers for Bakesy. What I can give you is the checklist that actually settles this, so you can go and confirm the numbers yourself in about ten minutes.
What to remember
- The question is not which one is bigger. It is which one fits what you sell and how you get paid. - Ask about the cut taken from each order, not just the monthly fee. - Ask what you can export before you pay, not after. - Ask whether it works properly on a phone, because that is where most orders arrive. - Brevl charges one flat $20 a month with no cut of your sales, and has a 14 day free trial.
Start with what you sell, not with the logo
Write down three things before you open either website. What you sell, roughly how many orders you take in a good week, and how you want to be paid. A baker doing twelve custom cakes a month has a different job than a baker doing sixty boxes of cookies at a market.
Once those three lines are on paper, most of the comparison answers itself. You are no longer shopping for a name. You are checking whether a tool handles your actual week.
The five questions to ask both of them
- What is the total monthly cost, including any per order cut?
- Which payment types can I accept, and who holds the money before it reaches my bank?
- Can I export my products, photos, order history and customer emails?
- Does it work fully on a phone, or do I need a computer for some tasks?
- Will a real person help me set up, and how do I reach them?
If a company will not answer question three clearly, that tells you something useful.
Cost: look past the headline number
A monthly fee is easy to compare. A percentage taken from every order is not, because it grows with you. Ask directly: if I sell $800 of bakes this month, what leaves my account in total?
Do that sum twice, once for a slow month and once for your best month. Some sellers are better off with a flat fee. Others are better off paying a slice only when they sell. There is no universal winner, but there is a winner for your numbers.
Getting paid is the part people skip
This is where bakers get caught. Ask who holds the money, how long it takes to land, and what happens if a customer wants a refund. If the answer involves waiting a week for a payout you needed on Friday, that matters more than any feature list.
Brevl takes card payments through your own Stripe or Square account, so the money relationship is yours, not ours. You can also record Venmo, Cash App, Zelle, and cash. If you already take Zelle from your regulars, you keep doing that.
Your shop should look like your baking
A shop that cannot show your photos the way you want is a shop you stop updating. Check whether you can change the colors, the order of your photos, and the wording on your pages without asking anyone.
Brevl gives you a shop that is yours to customize, with your photos, your colors, and your own web address. If that matters to you, look at Bakesy vs Homegrown for a second opinion on the same decision.
Phone at 6am, computer at 9pm
Most orders from home bakery customers arrive at strange hours. You will be reading them with one hand while the other hand is in a bowl of dough. So test the phone experience before you commit, not after.
Then test the computer side. When you sit down to plan a week of baking, you want a real screen, not a squished phone layout. Brevl works on both, with a full desktop workspace, and that is not a small thing when you are pricing forty items.
What leaving looks like
Nobody wants to think about this on day one. Do it anyway. Ask what happens to your product list, your photos, your reviews and your customer emails if you move on in a year.
If you are already paying for something, Bakesy app pricing walks through the questions worth asking about cost, and Bakesy free trial covers what to check before you hand over a card.
Why home bakers choose Brevl
Brevl is the alternative home bakers choose because it is easier to set up, more customizable, and reliable on both a computer and a phone. It is one flat $20 a month with no cut of your sales. You take cards through your own Stripe or Square account. Your shop carries your photos, your colors, and your own web address. Recipes come with real costing, ingredient inventory and a weekly planner, so pricing and planning live in the same place as your orders.
We set it up with you, and we move your old shop over: products, photos, reviews, and dates. A real person answers, usually within minutes. You can read the side by side at Brevl vs Bakesy, and if you are already paying for something else, Switch shows what moving involves.
A fair way to decide this week
Set aside one evening. Write your three lines. Send the five questions. Do the fee sum for a slow month and a good month. Then pick the one that answers clearly and lets you see your own baking on a phone screen without a fight. If both do, pick the cheaper one for your numbers and stop reading comparison pages.
Related reading
Prices, plans, and terms change without notice. Confirm current details with each company before you pay.