Question 1

Why would my bakery of all places need an app of its own?

Accepted Answer

Because your regulars put together the evening before what should be waiting in the morning: you bake to demand instead of to instinct, and what is left over goes out as an afternoon offer instead of into the trash. On top of that, a push message reaches your people directly on the phone — nobody advertises more cheaply than that.

Question 2

Will my bakery’s name really be the one on the icon?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The app belongs to your business: your lettering, your logo, your house colors — in the App Store and on Google Play. To your customers it’s simply “the app from the baker around the corner”; technically it stands on the same stage as the chains.

Question 3

What features go into an app like this?

Accepted Answer

The core for bakeries: pre-ordering with a chosen pickup window, paying up front or in the store, a digital stamp card, daily offers by push, surprise bags for the late afternoon and every location with its hours. Vouchers, a digital receipt and made-to-order cakes come on top if you want them. Which of the building blocks really belong in yours is something we settle together in the first conversation.

Question 4

Do I have to buy new devices or a new POS system for it?

Accepted Answer

No. For the order overview one device you already have in the building is enough — a tablet, a phone or the office computer; the admin side runs in the browser. Your POS system can be connected, but you don’t need that to start.

Question 5

How much work does the app make day to day?

Accepted Answer

Barely any. Pre-orders come in sorted by pickup time, one tap confirms them, and if you like, the order slip prints straight out in the bakery kitchen. A daily offer takes two minutes to enter — the rest runs on its own.

Question 6

What does an app for a bakery cost?

Accepted Answer

It starts at $4,000, and for that you don’t get a pared-down version but a finished bakery app: pre-ordering with pickup windows, a stamp card and push, published in both stores and in the browser, under your name. What sits above that is not better built, only bigger: from $10,000 come further building blocks, an admin area and routines that run by themselves; anyone who wants a POS system, inventory control, AI pieces or their own interfaces connected lands between $20,000 and roughly $30,000. We never bill by the hour — the fixed price comes to you in black and white beforehand.

Question 7

Is the smallest package enough to begin with?

Accepted Answer

Yes — smaller here means fewer building blocks, not less care. For $4,000 a full app stands under your name in both stores and in the browser, with pre-ordering, pickup windows, a stamp card and push. The technology, the design and the store review are the same as in the large packages, and every further block can be added later, once your customers have taken to the app. Plenty of businesses start exactly like that and build on after the first summer, when the numbers show what’s worth having.

Question 8

How long does it take until the app is in the store?

Accepted Answer

Less time than most people expect: the starter package is usually ready to submit after two weeks, larger plans need three to four weeks, very extensive ones accordingly longer. What makes that possible is working with current tooling, AI included — every line still gets read by hand. After the first conversation you get a proposal with a schedule, and you see a clickable preview long before anything is submitted.

Question 9

We bake everything ourselves — is the app made in-house too, or bought in?

Accepted Answer

To stay with the picture: it all comes out of one bakery kitchen. Behind Have a nice day is an owner-run studio where your app takes shape from the first sketch to the submission — nothing is ordered elsewhere and merely warmed up here. You always speak to the developer himself, in German, English or Russian, with over twenty years of web development and eight years of apps for iPhone and Android behind him. How that turns out you can check for yourself: six apps of our own stand publicly in the stores under our own name.

Question 10

My regulars are on the older side — will they install an app at all?

Accepted Answer

Not everyone has to join in. The app already carries itself when part of your regulars pre-order and clear the surprise bags in the evening. A stand with a QR code next to the register is enough to begin with — anyone who would rather wait in line goes on waiting in line as before.

Question 11

How big does a business have to be for an app of its own to pay off?

Accepted Answer

Size decides less than how often people come back: where they cross the threshold several times a week, an app carries itself — so with almost any bakery that has a storefront of its own. Whether the numbers add up in your case we check in the free first conversation, with your own figures.

Question 12

Can customers choose their own pickup time — or does everything then pile up at seven?

Accepted Answer

You set the windows, and customers only choose from what’s free; a fully booked window shows up crossed out in the app. That way the rush spreads out by itself instead of jamming at the counter. Anyone who has pre-ordered doesn’t have to wait in any case — the bag is ready with their name on it. The same goes for daily offers: someone who can only pick up their slice of crumb cake after work has it set aside through the app.

Question 13

There’s already an ordering page or an older app — do we still start from scratch?

Accepted Answer

Not necessarily. We look first at what’s there: often what exists can be repaired, brought up to date and then looked after by us from then on. If building new turns out cheaper than patching forever, we’ll tell you straight. And instead of one lump sum, the route via $199 a month is open as well — no investment at the start, support included.

Your own bakery app — ordered the night before, picked up without waiting in line.

What should your bakery’s app do?

Which features should your app come with?

Everything your bakery app takes off your hands.

Your customers already use bakery apps — just not yours.

What an app of your own really changes in a baking day.

What pre-orders and bakery boxes actually bring in

“My customers and apps — that will never fit”

How the first month goes

What does the bakery box actually bring in?

One project. Every device.

What we build is out in the app stores.

Who actually builds your app?

Where to start — pre-ordering, stamp card or bakery boxes?

From the first idea into the stores.

You tell us about your bakery

You tell us about your bakery

The proposal and fixed price come in writing

We write the code, you watch it happen

The app moves into the stores

After that we stay on board

What does it all cost?

Start

Business

Complete

Common questions about the bakery app

Why would my bakery of all places need an app of its own?

Tomorrow morning somebody is already pre-ordering.