Sell cakes online

Start, run, and grow your cake business

Get the training, tools, and support you need to build the cake business you’ve always wanted.

Everything you need to sell cakes

Free resources

Learn at your own pace with on-demand courses from Shopify Compass, and with other business owners on the Shopify Community forums. Find answers to your questions on the Shopify blog, or in our comprehensive guides.

Professional tools

Create an online cake store that reflects your unique brand with over 70 customizable and responsive themes. Efficiently manage your inventory and process customer orders all from one unified dashboard.

Smart marketing

Grab your customers’ attention with targeted marketing campaigns on social media and Google. Make sure customers can find your cake store by using Shopify’s built-in SEO tools and integrated blogging.

Award-winning support

Connect with Shopify customer support over online chat, phone, or email. Support is available 24/7, and can help with almost any challenge your cake business encounters.

Learn more about selling cakes

  • To sell cakes online, decide what types of cakes you want to sell, such as birthday or wedding cakes, and who you can market them to. Then, you'll need an online store where customers can order them. Shopify's all-in-one commerce platform offers more than 80 professional website templates and themes to create a unique online store for your cakes.

  • Shopify can help you instantly build your online cake store and mobile app, and connect with your customers through features like social media integration and SEO tools.

  • There are many benefits to selling cakes online through a Shopify website. Analytics and website traffic reports can help you learn about where your customers are coming from and what occasions they need cakes for. SEO product tags can help you reach new customers through search engine discoverability. There are many apps on the Shopify App Store to help with things like marketing, managing and tracking the progress of cake deliveries, and improving the customer experience.

  • Cake prices vary, depending on the cost of the ingredients and time spent creating them, and if they are custom creations. The cake’s size, flavor(s), frosting, and design are also important factors. Use Shopify’s free profit margin calculator to ensure you're pricing your cakes in a way that leaves you with a profit.

Scale your sales

Powerful apps

Showcase your cakes with professionally edited photos or build customer loyalty with rewards programs. With over 6,000 options in the Shopify App Store, you can customize your store experience and test for success.

Sell everywhere

Sell your cakes online, in-person, and wherever your customers are. Quickly accept payments, view sales, fulfill orders, and track inventory with the Shopify POS app—no matter where you sell.

Scalable pricing plans

For cake businesses at every stage and size

Basic

Best for new ecommerce businesses with occasional in-person sales

$29per month

Shopify

Best for growing businesses selling online or in-store

$79per month

Advanced

Best for scaling businesses that require advanced reporting

$299per month

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