Cottage Food Software Built for Home Sellers
Take preorders, accept Stripe payments, run weekly drops, and manage pickup days — from a single mobile storefront made for cottage food businesses.
Cottage food sellers don't need a full Shopify storefront, a custom website, or another bloated SaaS tool. They need a fast, mobile-first way to publish a weekly menu, collect orders, take payment upfront, and tell customers when to pick up. That's exactly what FoodDropr is built for.
If you sell cookies, sourdough, jams, cake pops, granola, candy, or anything else allowed under your state's cottage food law, FoodDropr replaces the patchwork of Google Forms, Venmo, DMs, and spreadsheets that most home sellers outgrow within 60 days.
What is cottage food software?
Cottage food software is a tool designed for home-based food businesses that operate under a state cottage food exemption. Unlike generic e-commerce platforms, it handles the realities of how home sellers actually work: weekly preorder windows, hard cutoffs, batched prep lists, single-location pickups, and customer messaging.
FoodDropr is the cottage food software built specifically for this model. You publish a drop, customers pre-order during your sales window, you bake or cook to order, and they pick up at your scheduled time.
- Mobile-first storefront customers can order from in under 60 seconds
- Stripe-powered checkout with Apple Pay and Google Pay
- Built-in pickup scheduling and cutoff times
- Customer list that grows with every drop
Features cottage food sellers actually use
Most platforms try to do too much. FoodDropr is opinionated about what a cottage food business needs to run a profitable week.
- Weekly drops with open and close times
- Per-item inventory caps so you never oversell
- Customer pickup windows and location pinning
- Order export for prep lists and packing labels
- Tip support and optional minimums
- Repeat-customer dashboard
Why home sellers switch to FoodDropr
The most common reason home food sellers move to FoodDropr is that DMs and Venmo stop scaling at around 30 customers. Missed orders, wrong totals, no-shows, and forgotten allergy notes start eating into both revenue and weekends.
A real cottage food platform gives you a single source of truth — every order is paid, timed, and labeled with the customer's name and phone number before pickup day.
Who FoodDropr is built for
Home bakers, cookie decorators, sourdough sellers, jam makers, candy and confection sellers, granola brands, dry-mix businesses, and anyone selling shelf-stable foods under their state's cottage food law. If you run a weekly or biweekly drop with pickup, this is the cleanest tool you'll find.
Pricing built for home businesses
Starter and Pro plans are priced for home food businesses, not enterprise restaurants. You keep more of every sale, you can launch in an evening, and you don't have to negotiate a per-seat contract.
Frequently asked questions
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