Order Local and Bakesy both serve home bakers. Bakesy runs about $9.99 to $17.99 a month as of July 2026, and its in-app payments are optional — vendors can collect by Venmo, Zelle, or cash instead. Order Local starts at $0, takes 0% commission, and puts card payments in your own Stripe account.
Bakesy details reflect our research as of July 2026
| Feature | Order Local | Bakesy |
|---|---|---|
| Commission per sale | 0%. We take no per-order cut on any plan. | We do not have a sourced platform-commission figure for Bakesy. Its in-app payments are optional and charged at 3.9%, US-only, as of July 2026. |
| Monthly cost | $0 Starter (5 items), $9 Growth (20 items), $19 Market (40 items, Advanced Analytics included), $39 Pro (unlimited items, every add-on). Add-ons are $9/month each. Annual billing is 2 months free. | 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% 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. | Baker-focused ordering. We do not have sourced detail on how deep its pickup scheduling goes — check Bakesy. |
| Payment options | Card through your own Stripe account, or Venmo — customers pay your @handle and you confirm each payment. | Optional in-app payments at 3.9% (US-only), or collect offline yourself via Venmo, Zelle, or cash. |
| Catalog limits | 5 items on Starter, 20 on Growth, 40 on Market, unlimited on Pro. | 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%, 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 on Venmo 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.
The Starter plan is $0 for 5 catalog items, with no credit card and no trial clock, against about $9.99 a month for Bakesy’s Standard plan as of July 2026. Growth is $9 a month for 20 items when you outgrow it.
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% as of July 2026. On a $40 order that is about $1.46 versus about $1.56, 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 Venmo on and customers pay your @handle, 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 on the free plan and run one weekend of orders through it.
Photos, prices, and modifiers for size, flavor, filling, or inscription. The free Starter plan covers 5 items — enough to open with a short menu of what you actually bake.
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 so customers can pay your @handle, or do both and let the customer pick.
Keep 100% of your sales. Pay only Stripe's standard processing fee.
Starter
Free forever for 5 items — enough to open with a short list.
Growth
Room for a seasonal list at 20 items.
Market
For a home business with a full lineup and repeat customers.
Pro
Unlimited items and every add-on included.
Not sure? Start free on our Starter plan — up to 5 items, no credit card required.
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