Home Bakery Business Manager

Eleven orders due one Saturday, and the bake list lives in your head. This manager runs a home bakery in one Google Sheets file, 16 tabs. Orders holds one row per order — customer, item, quantity, due date, total, deposit — and figures the balance due on its own. The Bake-Day Board is the hero: type the date you are baking for and it pulls every open order due that day and totals what to bake, product by product, with an oven schedule grid underneath. Recipe Costing builds each recipe's true batch ingredient cost line by line, and the Pricing Calculator turns it into a cost per serving, a suggested price at your target margin, and the real margin on the price you actually charge, flagged AT TARGET or BELOW TARGET. Around that core sit the trackers that run the rest of the business: a Customer List that scores every buyer from your Orders (spend, deposits, what they still owe, repeat flags), Wholesale Accounts with terms, balances and payment-due flags, a Weekly Production Planner that stretches the bake board to a full week with batches figured for you, a Farmers Market Log with sell-through % per market day, a Waste & Spoilage Log that costs what never sold, Gift Card & Credits with balances and outstanding totals, and an Equipment & Maintenance log that flags service before something breaks.

Two settings drive the whole book: your target margin (the samples start at 60%) and your labor rate (the samples start at $15 an hour) — change either one and every price and flag follows. Ingredients & Inventory watches stock with OK, ORDER SOON and OUT flags, and the Dashboard ranks which bakes pay you best per hour in the oven. The fictional sample bakery, Golden Crumb Cottage Bakery, October 2026, holds 11 orders — $632 booked, $210 in deposits, $422 in balances owed, 10 orders open — and a bake day, Saturday October 24, with 9 orders due: 19 sourdough loaves, 5 dozen cookies, 1 layer cake, 2 boxes of scones and 2 pans of cinnamon rolls. Across its 6 recipes, the cookies cost $10.51 a serving and earn 70.8% at their $36 price, while the sourdough costs $5.26 and sits BELOW TARGET at $12, with a suggested price of $13.15. October closes with $2,640 of net sales against $561.10 of expenses. An organization and calculation tool, not tax or accounting advice.

Transparency note: this spreadsheet was designed with AI assistance, then hand-built and formula-tested by our shop.

What you receive is the finished spreadsheet file, delivered instantly at checkout as a PDF containing your Google Sheets copy link. Open it, choose "Make a copy," and the file is yours. It runs in Google Sheets on a free Google account — nothing to install — and the sample data is included so you can see the formulas work. If a file ever breaks, you receive a corrected copy of the file free. This is a digital product — no physical item will be shipped.