Booking protection for custom cake makers
Never bake for a client who hasn’t signed and paid.
CakeQuote turns your cake quote into a signed contract with the deposit collected — in one link — so you never buy a tier for a booking that isn’t real.
- Costing is free on every plan
- The deposit isn't optional
- $15/mo, locked for life
A look inside
See the whole booking loop in one link.
Build a profitable, on-brand quote on your laptop. The couple reviews it, signs your contract and pays the deposit from their phone — the date isn't booked until it clears.
New quote
Sarah & James · Wedding
Cake brief
Quote
Ingredients $232 · labor $118 · overhead $35 — costed before you send.
30% deposit ($222) collected at signing.
Cake order agreement
Buttercream & Bloom · Sarah & James
I’ve read and agree to the terms of this custom cake order.
Signature
Sarah Mitchell
Signed Jul 8, 2026 · 9:41 AM
Agree & pay deposit
Your date is booked!
Aug 15, 2026 is reserved for you.
Your receipt and signed contract are on their way to your inbox.
Representative screens — a directional look at the app, not a customer’s record.
A handshake isn't a booking
You're booking $300–$900 cakes on a DM and a “sounds good!”
Then the client ghosts, moves the date, or cancels the week of — after you’ve bought the tiers, blocked the weekend and turned down other orders. The free contract template you found still needs chasing for a signature, and the deposit is a “can you Venmo me?” that never comes.
A signed contract and a collected deposit is a booking. Everything else is hope. CakeQuote makes the professional version take one link.
How it works
Three steps. No chasing signatures, no “can you Venmo me?”
Quote in a minute
Enter the cake — tiers, servings, design, date, delivery. CakeQuote itemizes it and shows your margin before you send, so every quote is profitable.
Costing is free on every plan
Client signs
Your quote becomes a branded contract with your terms — deposit amount, change-cutoff, cancellation policy. They e-sign it from their phone.
Deposit clears
The deposit is collected at signing, straight into your own Stripe account. The date isn't booked until it clears, and the balance reminder sends itself.
Why CakeQuote
Other cake apps track orders. CakeQuote protects the booking.
It closes quote → signed contract → deposit in one flow — the part that actually saves you from a cancelled wedding cake. No template to chase signatures on, no second app for the invoice, no “can you Venmo the deposit?”
- A free contract template you email and chase — get one here
- A separate invoice or Venmo request for the deposit
- Order apps that track the cake but never lock in the money
- One link: quote, contract and deposit — signed and paid together
Simple pricing
One paid plan. Getting paid isn't an add-on.
Starter
$0
Cost and price your cakes.
- Unlimited costed quotes
- Margin & profit calculator
- Your pantry and ingredient costs
Pro
$15/mo
The full booking loop — quote, contract, deposit.
- Everything in Starter
- Branded client-facing quote link
- E-sign contract, on your own terms
- Deposit collection — card or manual
- Balance-due reminders, auto-sent
FreeCosting and your pantry cost nothing on every plan — you pay to lock in the booking.
Why I built this
My mother-in-law kept eating the cost of a cancelled cake.
I’m not a baker — she is. She’s run her own cake business for years, and I’ve lost count of how many times she’s vented about a client going quiet or backing out after she’d already bought the ingredients and turned down other orders. A “sounds good!” text isn’t a booking. I built CakeQuote so she — and bakers like her — don’t have to eat that cost again.
— David, Bits are electrons
Built for
If a cancelled cake costs you money, this is for you.
- Wedding cake makers
- Custom & celebration cakes
- Cottage & home bakers
- Cake studios
- Anyone booking high-ticket cakes on a handshake
Stop baking on a handshake.
Cost your next cake in a minute, and send it as a contract the client actually signs.
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