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Orderlion doesn't publish pricing. I calculated the average from their own public revenue data and broke down what each tier includes.

AI order processing reads your WhatsApp messages and emails and tries to turn them into orders. But what if the mess never happened in the first place?

Orderlion has 27 pages of documentation for wholesalers. If you just want customers to order online instead of texting you, there's a simpler option.

WhatsApp works until it doesn't. Orders buried in group chats, customers messaging your personal phone at 5am, no single list of what needs packing. If you're running your egg round from text messages, you already know it's broken.

Your hens don't care about your delivery schedule. Production drops in winter and during moulting, but your customers still expect the same order. Here's how to stay ahead of the gap between what your flock produces and what your accounts need.

At fifteen customers, you can't hold the delivery round in your head. At twenty-five, you're scribbling on the back of a feed receipt and hoping you haven't missed anyone. Here's how to get a packing list that builds itself.

You deliver the eggs on Monday. By Wednesday you still haven't invoiced. By the end of the month, you're owed money by several customers and you're not entirely sure how much. Here's how to fix invoicing before it costs you real money.

A cafe owner asks if you can supply them with ten dozen a week. You say yes. And just like that, you're a wholesale egg supplier. Except nobody told you what to agree, what to write down, or how to actually manage a recurring trade account.

The café texts at 6am to add four sourdoughs. The coffee shop calls to halve their croissant order after you've already started baking. Every wholesale baker knows this problem. Here's how to stop it ruining your morning.

WhatsApp works until it doesn't. Missed orders buried in group chats, customers messaging your personal phone at 11pm, duplicate requests across three different threads. If you're running wholesale on WhatsApp, you already know it's broken.

You're spending Friday afternoon typing up invoices from a week's worth of orders. Copying prices into a spreadsheet, checking what was delivered, emailing PDFs. There's a better way.

Every morning, you add up orders by hand to work out what to bake. Scanning messages, checking standing orders, hoping you haven't missed one. There's a faster way to get from confirmed orders to production numbers.

Every wholesale bakery needs a cutoff time. The hard part isn't choosing one - it's enforcing it when a good customer texts you after hours asking to squeeze in one more change.

A packing slip tells your driver exactly what goes in each crate for each customer. Most wholesale bakeries handwrite them or print a spreadsheet. Both cause errors at the van.

You started a bakery to bake. Instead you're answering the phone, replying to WhatsApp messages, and manually writing down orders six times a morning. Here's how to get yourself out of the loop.

You delivered the bread. You sent the invoice. Now it's three weeks later and you're not sure if they paid. You check your bank, scroll through transactions, and try to match amounts to customers. There's a better way to track this.

The spreadsheet worked when you had three customers. Now you have eight and Friday afternoon disappears into admin. Here are the signs it's time to move on.

Your wholesale customers all want "a bit more than usual" for Christmas. None of them can tell you exactly how much. Here's how to get confirmed numbers before it's too late.

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Comparing CyBake and Wholesale Handler for wholesale bakery ordering. See the full pricing and feature breakdown.

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Comparing FlexiBake and Wholesale Handler for wholesale bakery ordering. See the full pricing and feature breakdown.

Stop taking Christmas tree orders by phone. Let your trade customers order online with delivery week selection, seasonal availability, and automated invoicing.

Most bakery software companies want to sell you an "all-in-one platform." This usually means paying for features you'll never use while the core ordering workflow gets buried under complexity.

Most wholesale bakeries pay £30-80/month for the software they actually need.

Self-service ordering portal for wholesalers. Orders, inventory, invoices, and customer management.