Bakery Website Design

Builds start from £800, and most bakery projects come in between £800 and £3,000 depending on whether you need ordering, subscriptions and trade accounts. A larger build with a full shop and nationwide shipping is usually £2,000 to £5,000+. You get a fixed quote upfront — no hourly billing and no surprise invoices halfway through.

No. I’m based in Brighton, Sussex, and I work with businesses right across the UK. The whole process runs on calls, email and shared documents, so where your bakery is has never been the deciding factor. If you are local, I’m happy to come and see the place.

Yes, and it should. Natasha’s Law requires pre-packed for direct sale food to carry a full ingredients list with the 14 named allergens emphasised. I build that into the site as structured product data rather than a PDF, so customers can filter to what they can eat, your team can send a link, and search engines can read it. It also earns you searches like “gluten free bakery near me”, which are some of the highest-intent local terms in the sector.

Date of the event, number of servings, flavour and filling, budget range and whether it’s collection or delivery — plus a photo upload. Those five fields let you quote or politely decline on the first reply instead of trading emails for a week. Budget as a set of bands rather than an open box is the one that makes the biggest difference, because it filters out the enquiries that were never going to convert without anyone feeling awkward.

Yes. Pre-ordering with collection slots is one of the most useful things a bakery site can do, because it turns “sold out by eleven” from a lost sale into a reserved one. I set per-product cut-off times and daily caps so you never take more orders than you can bake, and customers pick a collection window at checkout.

Always, if you supply trade. It’s the steadiest revenue most bakeries have and the worst-served page on almost every bakery website. A chef or café owner needs minimum order, lead times, delivery days, delivery radius and a way to request a trade price list — on one page, with a form that goes to whoever handles accounts rather than the general inbox.

The site can absolutely support it, and the design work is mostly about being honest with rules. Some products travel well — biscuits, brownies, loaf cakes, anything boxed and stable. Others simply don’t, and fresh cream is the obvious one. I set up shipping classes, dispatch days, cut-offs and next-day-only postcodes so customers see what’s possible before they pay, which is far cheaper than refunding it afterwards.

Nothing is compulsory. Managed hosting starts at £10 a month if you’d rather not think about servers, and a support and care plan is a separate product from £30 a month covering updates, backups and content changes. If you want to keep building visibility, SEO retainers start at £250 a month. Plenty of clients take none of it and run the site themselves after training.

I do. I’m a freelancer, not an agency — 10+ years with WordPress, 100+ WordPress websites built and 55+ businesses I’ve worked with directly, currently sitting on 51 five-star reviews. Before all this I was British 800m Champion, which mostly taught me that unglamorous repetition is what produces results. You can see the range of work in my portfolio, or browse the other sectors I work with.