The order form, finished
Every field below, in your design. Every enquiry lands in one list you can download, and on a paid plan you get an email for each one.
Service websites · Bakery
A home bakery website built around the custom order.
For home bakers and cake makers who take orders: an order form that asks for the date, servings, flavours and allergies in one go, a menu you change after close, and a holiday pre-order menu that switches on by date. Pragte takes order requests, not payments. If you sell from a counter or ship online, a shop builder suits you better.
What Pragte gives a bakery website.
Each part works as soon as you add it, and looks like the rest of your design. You place everything yourself, on a computer and on a phone layout of its own.
A menu you change after close
Keep the menu in a sheet and show it as cards with prices. Change a row, and the site follows.
What’s in the case today
A line you change from your phone (“Cinnamon buns until 2”), without opening the editor.
Stop when you’re full
Close the order form from your phone when the diary is full, and open it again when it isn’t.
Questions that open
Allergies, delivery, how far ahead to order: answers that open and close, so the page stays short on a phone.
Where you are
Your opening hours in your own words, and a Google Map of where to collect.
Which bakery is Pragte for?
A bakery website does two jobs: the shopfront, and the orders. Pragte is made for orders you agree one by one, not for a till.
| Your bakery | What the website has to do | Pragte |
|---|---|---|
| A home baker taking custom orders | Show what you make, take enquiries with the date and the details, and say when you’re full | A good fit |
| A cake maker for weddings and parties | Your cakes, how far ahead to book, an enquiry with servings and flavours, tastings by appointment | A good fit, with tastings through a Calendly embed |
| A holiday or market baker | A pre-order window that opens and closes, with pickup days | A good fit: a holiday phase and a pickup-day dropdown |
| A bakery with a counter or a café | Opening hours, where you are, the menu, often ordering ahead for pickup | In part: hours and a map, yes; ordering and payments, no. A shop builder suits you better |
| An online shop that ships | A catalogue, a basket, stock and payments, delivery | Not a fit: use a shop builder |
The custom order form, field by field.
A custom order is where a bakery makes its money, and the enquiry is where most of them stall: an email that says “a cake for Saturday?” and five more to find out the rest. Ask it all in the form.
- Name, email and phoneSo you can answer the same day. Name and email required.
- What it’s forWedding, birthday, office or something else, as a dropdown: it sets the whole conversation.
- Date neededThe first thing you check against your diary, so ask it early.
- ServingsA number, so the size and the price follow from it.
- Flavours and fillingsA dropdown of the ones you make, so nobody asks for one you don’t.
- Allergies and dietary needsAsked every time, never left to the notes.
- Pickup or deliveryA choice, with the delivery address only if they need it.
- BudgetRanges in a dropdown. It saves a round of emails.
- InspirationA link to a photo. Pragte’s forms don’t take file uploads.
Build the part that changes so you can change it after close.
Your story, your hours and where you are rarely change. The menu, today’s case and the holiday window change all the time. Keep those where a change takes minutes: the menu in a sheet, today’s case as a line you change from your phone, the holiday menu as a phase with its own date.
A holiday menu that switches on by itself.
Your everyday site and your holiday pre-orders are two phases. Give each the date it starts, tick Repeat every year, and the holiday menu comes round each November.
- From December 16
Everyday
The menu, how ordering works, reviews and the order form.
- From November 15
Holiday orders
The holiday menu, a line saying when orders close, and an order form with a pickup day.
Free to build. $49.99 for a year on Google.
Build your site and share it for free, with no expiry date and a small Made with Pragte badge. To be found in search engines, without the badge and with an email for every request, pay $49.99 once for 12 months, and again when you want another year. No monthly fee. $29.99 covers 3 months, for a busy season.
See pricingWhat it doesn’t do
- No payments or deposits: send an invoice or a payment link.
- No shop, basket, stock counts or ordering ahead for pickup.
- No delivery slots or pickup calendar.
- No local business markup for search engines yet.
- Free sites aren’t listed in search engines, and a paid listing ends after 12 months unless you pay again.
Pragte compared for a bakery website.
What each does better, and where Pragte falls short.
Bakery websites, answered.
Is Pragte right for a bakery with a shop counter?
In part. It shows your hours, your menu and where you are, and takes custom orders. It doesn’t take orders for pickup or payments. If those are most of your sales, a shop builder such as Square Online or Wix suits you better.
Can customers pay a deposit online?
No. The order form takes the enquiry, and you confirm it with an invoice or a payment link from your own tools.
Can I stop taking orders when I’m full?
Yes. Close the order form from your phone, and open it again when you have room. A line on the site can say why.
Can the holiday menu come back every year?
Yes. Give the everyday site and the holiday menu each a start date, tick Repeat every year, and the site switches between them on those days each year.
What happens if I don’t pay again after a year?
The site stays online at its address and keeps taking orders, but it is taken out of search engines and the Made with Pragte badge comes back. Pay again when you want it listed.
I make candles, not cakes. Does it fit?
Yes. The Honey & Wick template has both: desserts on one page, candles, soaps and incense on another. Keep the one you need.
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Early access
Your orders, on a site that looks like your bakes.
Pragte is in early access. Leave your email and tell us what you make, and we will help you set it up.