Cost of Bakesy App: What to Add Up Before You Pay

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1. Why this guide does not have a price list
2. The four costs that hide behind the sign up price
3. Do the sums on paper
4. Where Brevl fits
5. What to do this week

You sell cakes and cookies from your kitchen. You are not looking for a lecture on software. You want to know what this thing costs you each month and whether it is worth it. That is fair, and it is the right question to ask before you hand over a card.

Here is the honest starting point. We went looking for Bakesy’s prices so we could lay them out for you. We could not get a readable price list from their site. So instead of guessing, this guide gives you a way to find the real number yourself, in about ten minutes, with a pen and a piece of paper.

Why this guide does not have a price list

A price list is only useful if it is right. If we wrote a number here and Bakesy changed it next month, you would budget wrong, and that is worse than no number at all.

So treat any blog post that quotes a firm Bakesy price with a bit of suspicion, including this one. The only price that counts is the one on the Bakesy site on the day you sign up, or the one their support tells you in writing.

The four costs that hide behind the sign up price

The monthly fee is the easy part. It is the other three that surprise home bakers.

1. 1

   The plan fee itself

   Ask for the full list of plans, not just the one they show you first. Bakesy sells more than one plan, and our guide to Bakesy Standard vs Premium walks through what to compare between them.

2. 2

   What comes out of each sale

   Ask plainly: what percentage do you take from each order, and who processes the card. Write the answer down. Then multiply it by the number of orders you expect in a month. That number is your real cost, not the plan fee.

3. 3

   Your own payment account

   Ask whether you can take cards through your own Stripe or Square account, or whether you have to use theirs. Using your own account usually keeps the money and the fees in your hands, and you can see the deposits yourself.

4. 4

   The cost of leaving

   Ask what happens to your photos, your product list, your reviews and your past orders if you stop paying. If the answer is that they stay behind, that is a real cost, paid later.

Do the sums on paper

Write down three lines. Line one, the monthly fee. Line two, the per sale cut multiplied by your usual number of orders. Line three, anything one time, like a setup charge or a card reader.

Add them. That is your true monthly cost. Do the same sum for any other option you are weighing, using the same order numbers, and the comparison becomes obvious. This is the same maths you already do when you work out what a tray of brownies costs you to make.

Where Brevl fits

We build Brevl, so take this part as our view, offered plainly.

Brevl is one flat $20 a month 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 customize, with your photos, your colors and your own web address, and it works properly on a computer and on a phone. Recipes come with real costing, ingredient inventory and a weekly planner, so you can price a bake and plan a week without a separate spreadsheet. We set it up with you and move your old shop over, products, photos, reviews and dates. A real person answers, usually within minutes.

If you want the side by side, read Brevl vs Bakesy and, when you are ready to move, Switch. For a fair read on the other side, our Bakesy pros and cons page does not pull its punches, and Is Bakesy a good app looks at the day to day.

What to do this week

Open the Bakesy pricing page yourself and screenshot it. Send their support three questions: the full plan list, the per order cut, and whether you can use your own Stripe or Square account. Then run the same three questions past Brevl, and put both answers on the same piece of paper.

That is the whole job. You will know the cost of the Bakesy app for your bakery, not someone else’s, and you will have it in writing.

Prices change. Check the current cost with Bakesy and with Brevl before you sign up. Nothing here is financial advice.