DoughPlan DoughPlanDoughPlan takes your orders and spits out the four things you re-do by hand every single week: a time-reversed bake schedule, scaled formulas, one shopping list, and cottage-food labels. Production planning priced for someone who sells 40 loaves a week — not 400 a day.
You love the baking. You don't love the Friday-night math.
Add your recipes once (in baker's percentages). Drop in the week's orders. DoughPlan does the rest.
Pick "loaves out at 7am Saturday." DoughPlan works backwards through levain, mix, bulk, shape, and cold proof — and merges steps shared across products into one timeline.
Your recipe in baker's percentages, scaled to the exact gram for this week's quantity. Hydration and totals checked for you.
Every ingredient summed across every product. Know exactly how much flour to buy before you drive to the mill.
Ingredient declaration in predominance order, allergen statement, net weight, and your state's disclaimer — generated from the recipe. Print and stick.
A tidy pick-list for each customer so nothing gets bagged wrong on a hectic market morning.
One clean printout for the wall by the oven. No subscription needed to plan your first product.
Spreadsheets break at scale. Enterprise bakery software like Cybake or BakeSmart is built — and priced — for wholesale operations baking hundreds of loaves a day. Storefront tools sell your bread but don't help you bake it.
| What you actually do on bake day | DoughPlan | Spreadsheet | Storefront (Hotplate) | Enterprise ERP (Cybake) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time-reversed bake schedule | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Auto-scaled baker's % formulas | ✓ | manual | ✗ | ✓ |
| Aggregated shopping list | ✓ | manual | ✗ | ✓ |
| Cottage-food labels | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Made for 20–150 loaves / week | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Price | $19/mo | free-ish | % of sales | Enterprise quote |
Thousands of cottage bakers got orphaned. DoughPlan isn't another storefront to rebuild — it's the back-of-house brain that makes bake day calm again, alongside whatever you sell through. Bring your recipes; we'll have your first plan ready in minutes.
Get early accessThe planner is live and free to use today. Founding Bakers lock in half-price for life and get cloud sync, the preorder storefront & SMS reminders the moment they ship. Cancel anytime.
Secure checkout by Stripe · Cancel in one click · Standard pricing after launch is Baker $19/mo · Founding Bakers keep $9 forever.
No signup. Use them on your next bake — and see how DoughPlan thinks.
Enter your formula and how many loaves you're baking — get exact grams for every ingredient, plus true hydration.
Open calculator →How much ripe starter, flour & water to build the levain your recipe needs — and when it'll be ready at your kitchen temp.
Build a levain →Hit your target dough temperature every bake — get the exact water temperature to mix with, in °C or °F.
Get water temp →What to charge per loaf — your true cost including your own labor, plus a price that actually turns a profit.
Price a loaf →An honest comparison of bakery production-planning tools for home & cottage bakers — what each does, and which fits a sourdough baker selling loaves.
Compare the tools →DoughPlan is the back-of-house bake-day planner for home and micro sourdough bakeries selling roughly 20–150 loaves a week. It turns a week of customer orders into a time-reversed bake schedule, scaled baker's-percentage formulas, one aggregated shopping list, cottage-food labels, and per-order packing lists.
Yes. The DoughPlan planner and all four calculators — baker's percentage, levain, dough temperature, and pricing — are free to use today, with no signup and no credit card. Paid plans add unlimited products and bake days, plus features like cloud sync and a preorder storefront as they ship.
DoughPlan is free to start. The Founding Baker plan is $9/month — that founding rate is locked for the life of your subscription (the standard rate after launch is $19/month) — and the Market plan is $39/month. Every plan is billed monthly in USD and you can cancel anytime.
Storefronts like Hotplate and the discontinued Castiron take customer orders and payments — that's front-of-house. DoughPlan does the other half: it turns those orders into the actual bake (time-reversed schedule, scaled formulas, shopping list, labels). Most growing bakers need both — a storefront to sell, and DoughPlan to bake.
Tools like Cybake and BakeSmart are full bakery ERPs built and priced for wholesale operations baking hundreds of loaves a day, with staff, POS and inventory control. DoughPlan does just the planning core — a time-reversed schedule, baker's-percentage scaling, shopping lists and cottage-food labels — for the 20–150-loaves-a-week home or micro baker, with no setup.
DoughPlan is built for home, cottage, and micro bakeries selling roughly 20–150 loaves a week — bakers who've outgrown spreadsheets and paper but are far too small for enterprise bakery ERP. If you're baking 400 loaves a day with wholesale accounts, you've outgrown it.
No install — DoughPlan runs in any web browser. Your recipes and orders stay in your own browser (local storage); there are no ad trackers and no third-party analytics, and the free planner needs no account at all. See our privacy policy for the full detail.
The planner is free to use today — no account needed. Drop your email and we'll tell you the moment cloud sync, the preorder storefront and SMS reminders land — and you can tell us what makes your bake day chaotic so we build the right thing.