Storefront + order intake
Homegrown
$10/mo
Yes
Replaces the cottage-food tool stack
The cottage-food tool stack used to be 7 logins and $20/month. Now it's one app and $19.
Your state's cottage-food label, printed straight from your menu. No Canva. No Forrager. No fines.
5 of the 7 tools, one subscription
The findhomegrown.com cottage-food guide recommends stitching 7 tools together. CottageOps replaces 5 of them — the 5 below — in one app, and adds state-compliant labels none of them ship. (The other 2, bookkeeping and broadcast email, we don't try to replace — see “What we don't replace” below.)
Custom-order intake forms
Bakesy
$9.99/mo
Partial
Label design
Canva Pro
$15/mo (Pro) · free tier
Yes
State cottage-food law lookup
Forrager
Free
Yes
Nutrition label generator
RecipeCard.io
Free
Partial
The stitch
~$20/month
across 7 separate logins
CottageOps
$19/month
1 login · zero transaction fees
Tool-by-tool
Every tool the cottage-food guide recommends, and what CottageOps does in its place. Honest scope: a couple of stack jobs (bookkeeping, broadcast email) we don't try to replace — see the next section.
| Tool | Job | Monthly cost | CottageOps equivalent | Covered? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Homegrown | Storefront + order intake | $10/mo | Built-in public storefront + structured order list | Yes |
| Bakesy | Custom-order intake forms | $9.99/mo | Custom-quote intake (v1.1) | Partial |
| Canva Pro | Label design | $15/mo (Pro) · free tier | State-compliant label PDF — generated from your menu | Yes |
| Forrager | State cottage-food law lookup | Free | Per-state compliance built in — all 50 states + DC | Yes |
| RecipeCard.io | Nutrition label generator | Free | Nutrition label calculator (v1.2) | Partial |
| Wave | Bookkeeping / accounting | Free | CSV export to Wave / QuickBooks (v1.1) | No |
| Kit (ex-ConvertKit) | Broadcast email marketing | Free (to 10K subs) | Transactional emails only — broadcast not shipped | No |
Pricing and feature lists reflect publicly-listed information as of 2026-05. Verify before you switch.
What we don't replace
Honest scope. These tools do their jobs well and we'd rather export to them than build a worse version of each.
Bookkeeping & tax — Wave or QuickBooks
We don't do double-entry accounting or tax filing. Wave is free and good; QuickBooks is the de-facto standard if your accountant uses one. CottageOps exports your orders as a CSV that imports cleanly into either.
Broadcast email marketing — Kit
Kit (ex-ConvertKit) is free to 10K subscribers and has a clean editor. CottageOps sends transactional emails (order confirmations, pickup reminders) but not marketing broadcasts. If you're emailing your past customers weekly, keep using Kit.
Video editing for Reels & TikTok — InShot
InShot is free (or ~$4/mo without the watermark) and is a fine phone editor. We don't enter this space — CottageOps is the operator side of your business, not the content-creation side.
The one feature the stitch can't match
Canva is a design tool. Forrager is a lookup database. Neither generates a state-compliant cottage-food label PDF from your menu data — allergen statement, “Made in a home kitchen” disclosure, producer name and address, all formatted to your state's law.
CottageOps does. That's the wedge.
Comparing CottageOps to something else? See the other guides:
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Replace the cottage-food tool stack with one app. Free all of 2026 — no card required. In 2027 it's one flat plan, $19/month (or $190/year), and you stay free until you pass about 12 orders. No tiers.
Start free — no credit card requiredStitch math sourced from findhomegrown.com's “Best Tools for Cottage Food Business” guide (2026-05 snapshot). Not legal advice — verify cottage-food requirements with your state agency.