Order Local and Bakesy both serve home bakers, and both take 0% commission. Bakesy is $9.99 to $17.99 a month as of July 2026, with optional in-app card payments at 3.9% + 30¢ or offline collection by Venmo and the like. Order Local is $0 in months under $250 in sales, puts card payments in your own Stripe account at 2.9% + 30¢, and adds Market Mode for ringing up the booth on your phone.
Bakesy details reflect our research as of July 2026
| Feature | Order Local | Bakesy |
|---|---|---|
| Commission per sale | 0%. We take no per-order cut, and customers pay no surcharge. | We do not have a sourced platform-commission figure for Bakesy. Its in-app payments are optional and charged at 3.9% + $0.30, US-only, as of July 2026. |
| Monthly cost | One flat fee based on monthly sales: $0 under $250, then $9, $19, $39, capped at $79 for $5,000+. Unlimited items, unlimited team members, every feature included. | About $9.99 a month for Standard and $17.99 for Premium, as of July 2026. We do not have a sourced free tier. |
| Who pays processing | You do — Stripe's standard 2.9% + $0.30 comes out of each payment, and the payment goes into your own Stripe account. Order Local never holds your funds. | You do, at 3.9% + $0.30 if you turn on Bakesy's optional in-app payments — or no processor does, if you collect by Venmo, Zelle, or cash by hand instead. Check Bakesy for current terms. |
| Local pickup scheduling | The center of the product: pickup locations with their own hours, pickup windows, cutoff times, per-item lead times, and per-day capacity limits. Vendor-run local drop-off windows with your own delivery fee are built in too. | Baker-focused ordering. We do not have sourced detail on how deep its pickup scheduling goes — check Bakesy. |
| In-person sales | Market Mode: pick the items on your phone, show a checkout QR code, and the customer pays on theirs by card (or Venmo, Cash App, or Zelle). No reader, no hardware. Booth sales share the catalog, customer list, and sales report with your preorders. | Not a feature. Bakesy takes preorders; a sale at a market table is collected by hand — Venmo, Zelle, cash — and recorded separately, if at all. Check Bakesy for current options. |
| Payment options | Card through your own Stripe account — or Venmo, Cash App, Zelle, and cash at pickup, paid to you directly and confirmed by you. | Optional in-app payments at 3.9% + $0.30 (US-only), or collect offline yourself via Venmo, Cash App, PayPal, Zelle, or cash. |
| Catalog limits | Unlimited items for every shop — no catalog limits at any level. | Not something we have a sourced figure for — check Bakesy. |
| Setup time | One sitting: add your items, add a pickup spot with its hours, connect Stripe, share the link. | Baker-specific templates to start from. |
| Best-fit customer | A local food maker who wants to be paid at checkout, into their own Stripe account, with pickup scheduling built in. | A home baker who is happy collecting payment offline and wants baker-specific templates at a low monthly price. |
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Bakesy figures reflect our research as of July 2026 — check Bakesy's site for current pricing. Where we say a figure is not sourced, we mean exactly that; we would rather leave a gap than guess.
Bakesy makes a different trade, and for one common way of running a home bakery it comes out ahead on cost.
If you take Venmo, Zelle, or cash by hand, you pay no processing at all — no 3.9% + $0.30, no 2.9% + $0.30. For a baker who already collects that way, that is genuinely the cheapest total cost, and Bakesy supports working that way.
Bakesy is built for bakers specifically and gives you baker-shaped templates to start from. Order Local serves bakers, growers, makers, roasters, florists, and food trucks, so its setup is more general.
Bakesy’s in-app payments are optional, so you can run without connecting a processor. Order Local can also run without Stripe — on Venmo, Cash App, Zelle, or cash alone — but card checkout is what it is designed around.
If you want the money collected before you bake, rather than chased afterwards, the trade-offs run the other way.
Bakesy handles the preorder side. Order Local also covers the booth: Market Mode turns your phone into a register — pick the items, show a checkout QR code, and the customer pays on their own phone by card (or Venmo, Cash App, or Zelle). Market-day sales land in the same shop as your preorders: one catalog, one customer list, one sales report.
Months under $250 in sales are $0 — unlimited items, no credit card, no trial clock — against about $9.99 a month for Bakesy’s Standard plan as of July 2026. The fee only starts once you are actually selling.
Customers pay in full when they order and the funds land in your own Stripe account on Stripe's normal schedule — typically about two business days. No chasing a Venmo request after the cookies are already boxed.
Stripe's standard rate is 2.9% + $0.30 against Bakesy's optional in-app payments at 3.9% + $0.30 as of July 2026. On a $40 order that is about $1.46 versus about $1.86, and the Stripe payment goes into your account, not through a platform.
Multiple pickup locations with their own hours and timezones, bookable pickup windows, cutoff times in minutes, per-item lead times in days, and per-day capacity caps so one oven never gets oversold.
If offline collection is why Bakesy appeals, Order Local can do that as well — turn on the methods you use and customers pay you directly, with the order and pickup time still recorded in your dashboard and you confirming each payment.
Nothing about the move has to be all-or-nothing. Start free and run one weekend of orders through it.
Photos, prices, and modifiers for size, flavor, filling, or inscription. List as many items as you like — there are no catalog limits at any level.
Name the spot and set its hours — the street address is optional, so you can list a meet-up spot by name without publishing your home address. Add lead times and daily caps.
Connect your own Stripe account for card checkout, turn on Venmo, Cash App, Zelle, or cash at pickup, or do all of it and let the customer pick.
Keep 100% of your sales — no commission, and your customers never pay a surcharge.
One simple fee based on what your shop sells each month. Flat fees starting at $9/mo once you're selling, and never a percentage of your sales.
| Monthly sales | Fee | Texts included |
|---|---|---|
| Under $250 | Free | 100 |
| $250 – $750 | $9/mo | 250 |
| $750 – $2,000 | $19/mo | 500 |
| $2,000 – $5,000 | $39/mo | 1,500 |
| $5,000+ | $79/mo | 3,000 |
Texts are the order updates we send your customers — confirmed, ready for pickup. Each level includes that many a month; past that they keep sending at 1.5¢ each.
The counter resets every month — your first $250 is always free, and the fee never goes above $79 no matter how much you sell. Billed after the month ends, never before. Your customers never pay a surcharge. No contracts, cancel anytime.
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