Choosing tools
Bakesy vs Wix: An Honest Comparison for Home Bakers
Know exactly what to check on both Bakesy and Wix before you pay, and what a home baker actually needs from a shop.
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You have probably seen both names in the same group chat, with one baker swearing by one and another saying the opposite. Both can be right, because they are running different businesses. One takes twelve custom cake orders a month. The other sells sixty cupcakes at a market on Saturday. Before you pick, get clear on which one you are.
Write down the job before you compare anything
Spend ten minutes with a notebook and answer three things. How do people order from you right now. How do you get paid, and when. What does someone need to see before they trust you enough to order. Those three answers will rule out more options than any feature page will, and they give you something concrete to hold each company against.
Five questions to ask both companies
List the jobs your shop has to do
Write down how you take orders now, how you get paid, and what a new customer needs to see before they order. Keep it to one page.
Ask both companies the same five questions
What does it cost each month once any introductory price ends. How do customers pay you, and when does the money reach your account. Can you see your own shop before you pay anything. Does it work properly on a computer as well as a phone. What happens to your photos, your menu, and your past orders if you leave.
Place a test order from your phone
Do it the way a customer would, on your phone, on the same kind of connection your customers use. Count the taps from finding you to paying. If it feels long or confusing to you, it will feel worse to someone who has never ordered from you.
Add up the real monthly cost
Take the monthly fee and add what you pay in card processing on a typical month of your sales. Compare that total, not the headline price.
What to look at on the Bakesy side
Treat the sales page as a starting point, not an answer. Ask to see your own shop before you pay, and check what the price becomes once any introductory offer ends. Confirm how a customer pays you and when the money lands in your account. Our guide to what to check on a Bakesy shop website walks through this line by line, and what to check before a free trial covers the questions worth asking before you hand over card details.
What to look at on the Wix side
Ask the same questions, in the same order, and write the answers next to Bakesy’s so you are comparing like with like. The one that matters most for a baker is the order flow. A page that looks lovely but makes a customer hunt for a pickup date will cost you orders. If the comparison comes down to how each one handles payments, Bakesy vs Square is worth a read as well.
Where Brevl fits
Brevl is $20 a month, flat, with no cut of your sales. You take card payments through your own Stripe or Square account, plus Venmo, Cash App, Zelle, and cash. Your shop is yours to customize, with your photos, your colors, and your own web address. It works on a computer and on a phone, so you can set it up at the kitchen table and still check orders at pickup. Recipes come with real costing, ingredient inventory, and a weekly planner, so pricing and planning sit in the same place as your orders. We set it up with you and move your old shop over, products, photos, reviews, and dates. And a real person answers, usually within minutes.
You can see the side by side at Brevl vs Bakesy, and if you already run a shop somewhere else, Switch shows how the move works.
How to decide without dragging it out
What to remember
- Write your three answers down first: how you take orders, how you get paid, what a customer needs to see. - Ask every company the same five questions and put the answers side by side. - Place a real test order on your phone before you pay for anything. - Compare the monthly fee plus card processing on a typical month, not the headline price.
- Pick the one that makes ordering and paying easiest for your customer, then stop shopping and start baking.
The best tool is the one you will actually keep up with on a Tuesday night when you would rather be in bed.
This page is general information about choosing and paying for a tool for your baking business, not financial advice. Check current pricing and terms with each company before you pay.