FoodCore handles recipe costing, Natasha's Law labels, allergen tracking, shopping lists, and order management for small bakeries. FoodCore Essentials from £19/mo, Core from £55/mo.
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Running a small bakery means managing a large number of recipes, each with multiple ingredients that change price regularly. Flour, butter, eggs, chocolate — commodity prices shift constantly, and every change affects your margins. Most bakery owners track this in a spreadsheet: a tab for each product, formulas that break when you add a row, and a growing sense that the numbers might not be right.
On top of costing, there's compliance. Since Natasha's Law came into force in 2021, every pre-packed product needs a compliant label — full ingredients list, allergens in bold. For a bakery with 20 or 30 products, that's 20 or 30 Word documents or Canva templates to maintain. Change a recipe and you need to find the file, update it, recheck the allergens, reformat, reprint. It's a significant administrative burden on top of the actual baking.
FoodCore is built to handle both. Your recipe library, ingredient costs, allergen data, and food labels all live in one system. Change an ingredient price and every recipe recalculates. Change a recipe and the label updates. Generate a shopping list from your week's production schedule in one click. Manage customer orders without a separate system.
Enterprise bakery management software UK businesses encounter often costs £100–£200/month and is built for large operations. FoodCore is built for small bakeries — from a one-person home bakery to a small high-street shop. Whether you need bakery recipe costing software, home bakery software UK, or a complete cake business software solution, FoodCore covers it all. Two plans: Essentials from £19/mo, Core from £55/mo.
Recipe costing, compliance, and operations — in one system.
FoodCore calculates the cost per portion of every recipe based on your ingredient prices. Update a supplier price and every recipe that uses that ingredient recalculates automatically. See your food cost percentage and margin for every product.
Generate compliant PPDS labels directly from your recipes — full ingredients list in legal order, all 14 allergens highlighted in bold. Labels update automatically when recipes change. No more maintaining separate Word or Canva files.
Allergens are tracked at the ingredient level and carried through to every recipe automatically. FoodCore covers all 14 UK-required allergens, including sub-ingredients in compound products.
FoodCore generates a shopping list from your production schedule — aggregated by supplier, with quantities calculated from your recipes. Know exactly what to order before you pick up the phone.
Log customer orders, track what needs to be produced, and manage your production schedule. Particularly useful for custom cake orders and wholesale accounts.
Generate an allergen matrix for your full product range — showing which of the 14 allergens are present in each product. Useful for displaying in your shop, sharing with wholesale customers, and staff training.
FoodCore is built for small UK food businesses — not enterprise kitchens with IT teams.
Managing a full product range with daily production means you need accurate costs and compliant labels across everything you make. FoodCore keeps both up to date automatically.
Selling from home via Instagram or at markets still requires compliant labels and accurate pricing. FoodCore is affordable enough for a one-person operation.
Custom cake orders with variable components and sizes need accurate per-order costing. FoodCore lets you cost each order and generate compliant labels for every product.
Supplying cafés, delis, or retailers means providing allergen information and maintaining consistent labelling. FoodCore handles both.
Small UK bakeries using FoodCore's bakery management software.
"We run a busy high-street bakery with 80+ product lines. FoodCore keeps our recipe costs updated automatically whenever supplier prices change — we caught a margin problem we'd been missing for months."
"Setting up Natasha's Law compliance from scratch was daunting. FoodCore made it straightforward — we had all our labels sorted within a week."
"The allergen matrix feature means we can answer customer questions instantly. We just pull it up on a tablet."
Why small food businesses switch from manual methods to FoodCore.
How bakery software UK options compare — including spreadsheets and enterprise systems.
Yes. FoodCore is built for small food businesses of all sizes. Plans start from £19/month (Essentials) or £55/month (Core). No per-user fees.
If you sell pre-packed for direct sale (PPDS) products — food you pack before the customer orders it — then yes, Natasha's Law applies. This covers most bakery products sold pre-wrapped or in bags. FoodCore generates compliant labels automatically from your recipes.
Yes. You can log custom orders in FoodCore, cost them based on your recipes, and generate compliant labels for each product. The order management feature lets you track what's been ordered, what needs to be produced, and what's been completed.
You enter your ingredients with their purchase price and pack size (e.g. 1kg flour for £1.20). FoodCore calculates the cost per gram. When you add ingredients to a recipe with quantities, FoodCore calculates the total recipe cost and cost per portion. Update a supplier price and every recipe recalculates automatically.
Yes. FoodCore stores your entire recipe library with no limit on the number of recipes. You can organise recipes by category and manage your full product range in one place.
A small bakery needs software that can handle bakery recipe management and costing (so you know your margins), food labelling (Natasha's Law PPDS labels), allergen tracking across your full product range, shopping lists generated from your production schedule, and order management for customer orders. FoodCore covers all of these in one subscription from £19/month — making it the ideal bakery software UK solution for small operations.
FoodCore starts at £19/month for the Essentials plan, which includes recipe costing, food labelling, allergen tracking and shopping lists. The Core plan is £55/month and includes all features. Both plans come with a 7-day free trial with no card required. Enterprise bakery management software UK providers can charge £100–£200+/month — FoodCore is built specifically for small UK bakeries at a fraction of that cost.
Yes. FoodCore generates Natasha's Law compliant PPDS labels directly from your recipes — with a full ingredients list in descending order by weight and all 14 major allergens highlighted in bold. When you change a recipe, the label updates automatically. This is significantly more reliable than maintaining separate Word or Canva label files manually, and removes the risk of selling a product with an out-of-date label.
For home bakers, the key requirements are affordability, simplicity, and compliance. FoodCore's Essentials plan at £19/month gives home bakers bakery recipe costing software, Natasha's Law labels, and allergen tracking — everything needed to run a compliant home bakery business without the cost or complexity of enterprise software. Our home bakery software UK solution is designed to be set up in under an hour.
What to look for when choosing bakery management software for a small UK bakery.
Every bakery needs to know its cost per product. Good bakery recipe costing software lets you enter your ingredients once with purchase prices and pack sizes, then calculates cost per portion automatically across all recipes. Crucially, when a supplier changes a price, every affected recipe should recalculate without you touching a spreadsheet. This is the feature that pays for itself fastest — bakeries routinely discover products they've been selling at a loss.
If you sell pre-packed for direct sale (PPDS) products — which most bakeries do — you need Natasha's Law compliant labels for every product. Look for software that generates labels automatically from your recipe data, tracks all 14 UK allergens at the ingredient level (including sub-ingredients in compound ingredients), and updates labels when recipes change. Manual label files are a compliance risk: one missed update can mean a mislabelled product.
Not all bakery software is built with UK food law in mind. Look for software that specifically addresses the Food Information (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2021 (Natasha's Law), UK allergen labelling requirements, and PPDS food rules. Generic recipe software or US-built tools may not generate labels that meet UK requirements.
Enterprise bakery software is priced for large operations. For a small UK bakery, look for a flat monthly subscription that includes all features — recipe costing, allergen tracking, food labelling, and order management — without per-user fees or feature add-ons. FoodCore's Essentials plan at £19/month is designed for exactly this: a small bakery getting everything it needs in one subscription, with no hidden costs.
What to look for when choosing bakery management software for a small UK bakery.
Every bakery needs to know its true food cost percentage. Without accurate recipe costing, you are guessing your margins — and guessing is how bakeries end up selling products at a loss without realising it. Good bakery recipe costing software lets you enter your ingredients once with purchase prices and pack sizes, then calculates cost per portion automatically across every recipe. The real power is in the automatic update: when a supplier changes a price for flour, butter, or eggs, every recipe that uses that ingredient recalculates immediately. No spreadsheet formulas to fix, no manual rechecking — your margins are always current. Bakeries regularly discover through proper costing that their best-selling product has been their least profitable one for months.
If you sell pre-packed for direct sale (PPDS) products — which most bakeries do — you are legally required to produce compliant Natasha's Law labels for every product. This is not optional. Look for software that generates labels automatically from your recipe data, tracks all 14 UK allergens at the ingredient level (including sub-ingredients in compound ingredients like chocolate chips or custard powder), and updates labels when recipes change. Manual label files — Word documents, Canva templates — are a compliance risk: one missed update can mean a mislabelled product on your shelf.
FoodCore automates the entire allergen workflow: allergens tracked at ingredient level, carried through to every recipe, labels generated with allergens in bold — and updated automatically when anything changes.
Not all bakery software is built with UK food law in mind. Natasha's Law is a UK-specific piece of legislation — it does not exist in the same form in the EU, the US, or elsewhere. UK food labelling requires 14 allergens to be declared (the EU has 14 too, but post-Brexit the UK list is maintained independently). Generic recipe software or tools built for other markets may not generate labels that meet UK requirements. Look for software specifically designed for the Food Information (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2021 and UK PPDS food rules. See FoodCore's Natasha's Law labelling software →
Enterprise bakery software is priced for large operations and typically costs £100–£200/month, often with per-user or per-location fees on top. For a small UK bakery, look for a flat monthly subscription that includes all features — recipe costing, allergen tracking, food labelling, and order management — without hidden add-ons. A free trial is important: you should be able to test that the software works for your operation before committing. FoodCore's Essentials plan at £19/month covers recipe costing, allergen tracking, and Natasha's Law labels in a single subscription. The Core plan at £55/month adds order tracking, the full allergen matrix, and shopping lists. No per-user fees. No long-term contracts.
A typical day running a small bakery with FoodCore — from production planning through to labelling and order management.
Open FoodCore and review today's production plan. See which products are scheduled, how many batches are needed, and what orders are due. Generate your shopping list for the day's ingredients — sorted by supplier so you can place orders or shop efficiently without cross-referencing multiple notes.
Select the recipes you are making and enter the batch size. FoodCore scales all ingredient quantities automatically and recalculates the cost per portion at that batch size. No manual scaling arithmetic — just accurate quantities ready to pass to your team or use yourself.
Once production is planned, print Natasha's Law compliant labels for every pre-packed product going out that day. Labels are generated automatically from your recipes — full ingredients list, allergens in bold, product name. No separate template files, no copy-paste errors. If a recipe has changed since last week, the label reflects the update automatically.
Log new customer orders as they come in — custom cakes, wholesale requests, event orders. Attach them to recipes for accurate costing, and track their status (ordered, in production, completed, delivered). See everything outstanding at a glance without needing a separate notebook or spreadsheet.
At the end of a production run or week, review margins across your product range. See which products are most and least profitable. If ingredient prices have changed, FoodCore has already recalculated — so your margin data is always current without any manual intervention. Use this to inform pricing decisions or identify products that need a price review.
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