A cake website and order form for UK home bakers

A cake website with a built-in order form lets customers choose the cake, the size, the flavour and the collection date, and pay, without twenty messages back and forth. Menuthere gives UK home bakers and cake decorators a free cake website that takes orders. You set how much notice you need. Orders arrive in one place, with 0% commission, and card payments go to your own account.

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Who this is for

• Home bakers selling birthday cakes, cupcakes and brownie boxes from their kitchen.
• Cake decorators who make custom and celebration cakes to order.
• Side-hustle bakers who sell a few cakes a week around a day job.
• Market and Instagram sellers who want an order link in their bio.

If you have a shop, see bakery software for UK bakeries instead.

Why home bakers outgrow DMs

Most cake businesses start on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp. It works, until it doesn't.

• The same questions every day: "How much is a 6-inch?" "Do you do vegan?" "Are you free on the 14th?"
• Orders buried in three apps.
• Dates and spellings copied by hand.
• People who book, then vanish before paying.

A cake order form fixes this. The customer fills in the details. You get one clean order.

Three ways to take cake orders, from free to full

Automatic WhatsApp order updates on your own number are on Pro (US$39 a month, also with a 7-day free trial). Meta bills your own WhatsApp account per message, and Menuthere adds no markup. See WhatsApp ordering.

The cake order form: what customers fill in

Your cake website works as a cake order form. Here is how each detail is captured.

Prefer paper? Our free cake order form template gives you a printable version. The online form saves you typing it all up.

Collection dates and minimum notice

Home bakers bake to order, not ASAP. On Lite you control the calendar.

• Minimum notice. For example, 3 days, so nobody books a birthday cake for tomorrow.
• Booking window. For example, no more than 4 weeks ahead.
• Advance-notice cakes. Tick the cakes that must be booked ahead and the days you bake them, such as Fridays only. Those cakes are ordered on their own.
• Collection slots. Set the times people can collect, such as Saturday 10am to 1pm.
• Pre-orders while you are closed. Customers can book at midnight for a slot inside your hours.

See pre-orders and collection slots.

Deposits for custom cakes

Many UK cake makers take a deposit on custom cakes, with the balance before or on collection. Menuthere takes full payment online and doesn't take deposits at checkout, so you have two options.

1. Take full payment at checkout for standard cakes. Simple, and no-shows stop.
2. For a big custom cake, send a Stripe payment link for the deposit. Take the balance on collection or by a second link.

Put your cancellation terms in the cake description. For example: "Deposit is non-refundable within 14 days of collection." Then they are agreed before payment.

Price your cakes before you list them

Many home bakers undercharge. Count ingredients, boxes, boards, your hours and your gas and electric. Our free cake price calculator does the sums and makes a price list image for Instagram. It picks £ for UK visitors.

What it costs compared with selling through apps

Take a home baker who sells 30 cakes a month at £55. That is £1,650.

If you are not VAT-registered, you cannot reclaim the VAT on app fees, so it is a real cost. Deliveroo also needs a food hygiene rating of at least 2, and we couldn't find a published UK home-kitchen policy from the big apps. See can I sell on Deliveroo from home.

Other tools exist. FoodCore (from £25 a month, read 11 Oct 2026) focuses on recipe costing, labels and allergen tracking. It is a good fit if costing and labels are your main headache. Menuthere's job is the customer side: the website, the order form, dates and payment. Some bakers use both.

UK rules for selling cakes from home

You can sell cakes from home in the UK, but you must follow food law. These are the basics. Our guide to starting a cake business from home goes deeper.

1. Register with your council at least 28 days before you start selling (England, Wales and Northern Ireland). It is free and cannot be refused. This applies to home and online businesses too.
2. Expect an inspection and a food hygiene rating. Your kitchen gets rated from 0 to 5. Aim for 5 and show it on your website.
3. Get hygiene training. The law says food handlers must be trained or supervised. A Level 2 food hygiene certificate is the usual way to show it, though the law does not name a specific course.
4. Write down your food safety steps. The FSA's Safer Food, Better Business pack is a free way to do this in England and Wales. Northern Ireland uses Safe Catering, and Scotland uses CookSafe.
5. Allergens. For online orders, give the 14 allergens before the customer buys and again on collection. On Menuthere, tag the allergens on each cake (every plan) and customers see them before they order. Made-to-order cakes are not PPDS, so Natasha's Law labels are not needed for them. Bakes you wrap at home and sell from a market stall are PPDS and need a full label. Bakes you supply wrapped to someone else's shop need a full label too. Make a chart with our allergen matrix maker.
6. Tell your mortgage lender or landlord, and your home insurer. Home insurance may not cover your business. Ask an insurer about public liability and product liability cover.
7. Tell HMRC. If your trading income goes over £1,000 in a tax year (the trading allowance), register for Self Assessment by 5 October after that tax year. VAT only applies once your turnover passes the threshold (£90,000 since April 2024).

Set up your cake website in an evening

1. Sign up with your email. Add your bakery name and logo.
2. Add your cakes with photos, sizes and flavours. Or import from a photo or PDF of your price list.
3. Tag allergens (and calories, if you like) on each cake, and add your notice and refund terms to its description.
4. Choose collection, delivery or both. Set a delivery radius and fee if you deliver.
5. Choose payment: bank transfer and pay on collection on Free, or Stripe card payments on Lite.
6. Put the link everywhere: Instagram bio, Facebook page, WhatsApp status and a QR code on your cake boxes.

Free for 50 orders a month, 0% commission, no contract. Need dates and card payments? a card is needed to start, and nothing is charged until the trial ends.

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