{"product_id":"cake-pricing-order-calculator","title":"Cake Pricing and Order Calculator","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis cake pricing calculator is for home bakers and small cake businesses who suspect they are charging too little. It adds up every part of an order to give you the real cost per cake, then keeps the year's income and expenses in the same workbook.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease read:\u003c\/strong\u003e This is a tracker tool only, not financial, tax, legal, medical or any other professional advice or advisory service. It records and calculates what you enter; you are solely responsible for checking all figures, rates, dates and results and for every decision you make. By purchasing, downloading or using it, you accept these terms (your statutory consumer rights are not affected).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003ePrice custom cake orders from real costs\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eNobody undercharges for a cake on purpose. It happens because the butter, the board, the dowels, the box and the ribbon were never added up. The Orders and Components tabs add them up for you, so each quote starts from what the cake actually costs to make.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eCategories for a bakery business\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ledger opens on the lines a cake maker uses rather than a generic shop chart of accounts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIncome lines:\u003c\/strong\u003e Celebration cakes, Wedding cakes, Cupcakes and treats, and Corporate orders\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eExpense lines:\u003c\/strong\u003e Ingredients, Decoration and boards, Kitchen hire and Packaging, and more\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause wedding cakes and celebration cakes sit on separate lines, you can see which kind of order is worth your weekends.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eTwelve connected tabs\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eStart Here, Setup, Orders, Components, Clients, Income, Expenses, Monthly, Quarterly, Profit and Loss, Balances and Dashboard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e500 income rows and 500 expense rows\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMonthly and quarterly totals, which is how tax gets filed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA profit and loss built from the same two lists\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10 client records showing what each customer has been worth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAccount balances, so the file knows what the business holds\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA dashboard that reads all of it\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch2\u003eA worked year and a blank copy\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe example copy follows one baker through a year: 280 income entries and 378 expense entries at a 22.2% margin. The blank copy is ready for your own recipes and orders, and the Start Here tab walks you through setup in a few minutes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a baker bookkeeping spreadsheet, not an accountant. Tax rates and what you can claim are yours to set and yours to check.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eWorks with\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMicrosoft Excel 2016, 2019, 2021 and Microsoft 365, on Windows and Mac, and LibreOffice\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGoogle Sheets with a free Google account. The Google Sheets version is a real workbook you take a copy of, not a PDF with a link in it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNo dynamic arrays, no macros, no add-ins and no subscription\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch2\u003eWhat you download\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo Excel workbooks: the filled example and a blank one\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe instruction guide, with one-click links to the Google Sheets versions (filled and blank)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe terms of use as a PDF\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eYour files are ready the moment payment clears, for personal and business use on your own devices. Please do not share or resell them. Questions? Use our contact page and we will help.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eFrequently asked questions\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDoes it work in Excel and Google Sheets?\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eYes. The Excel workbooks run on Excel 2016 or later on Windows and Mac, and the instruction guide has one-click links to copy the Google Sheets versions with a free Google account.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eHow does it work out the cost of a cake?\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Orders and Components tabs add up the ingredients, boards, dowels, boxes, ribbon and other parts that go into an order, so you can see the cost per cake.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWill it tell me what to charge?\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt shows what each cake costs you to make. The price you set on top of that is your decision.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eCan I track wedding cakes separately?\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eYes. Celebration cakes, Wedding cakes, Cupcakes and treats, and Corporate orders are separate income lines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDoes it do my tax return?\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo. It gives monthly and quarterly totals and a profit and loss. 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