Sell bread online
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Everything you need to sell bread
Free resources
Learn at your own pace with on-demand courses from Shopify Academy, and with other business owners on the Shopify Community forums. Find answers to your questions on the Shopify blog, or in our comprehensive guides.
Professional tools
Create an online bread store that reflects your unique brand with over 70 customizable and responsive themes. Efficiently manage your inventory and process customer orders all from one unified dashboard.
Smart marketing
Grab your customers’ attention with targeted marketing campaigns on social media and Google. Make sure customers can find your bread store by using Shopify’s built-in SEO tools and integrated blogging.
Award-winning support
Shopify support is available 24/7, no matter which plan you're on. You'll also have access to help docs, webinars, blog posts, and online courses to guide you along the way for your bread business encounters.
Learn more about selling bread
To sell bread online, you'll first need a license for selling food items, due to strict regulations that emphasize the safety and health of consumers. Once you are certified as a vendor, decide whether you want to make your bread in-house or partner with a bakery. Then, you can set up an online Shopify store and choose from over 80 customizable themes. You can upload as many pictures of your bread as you'd like with videos and product descriptions to entice the buyer.
A Shopify store is the best way to take your bread business online. You can upload mouth-watering photos of your bread, give descriptions of its ingredients, and convince people to buy with its nutritional information. Shopify also allows you to integrate your store with other third-party platforms to drive more traffic.
Yes, you can sell bread on Shopify. On Shopify, you can promote your bread business on food blogs and your social media accounts to increase traffic to your site. You can then give your potential buyers social proof and ensure maximum sales by uploading consumer reviews with review apps from the Shopify App Store, which boasts over 6,000 apps.
It's essential to price your bread correctly from the start so that future price increments don't upset your customers. Some experts recommend multiplying the cost of the ingredients by a factor of five to get your ideal price. A more exact value will be the sum of the production costs, delivery costs, and fixed costs, multiplied by a profit margin factor. Note that while most of your buyers may be in your locale, delivering your bread over longer distances will increase the supply cost and, ultimately, the price of your bread.
One good example of an online bread store is Bakerly, an online shop powered by Shopify. It uses a fun, easy-to-navigate theme to display its bread and other baked products. It offers several of the many payment gateways on Shopify, and integrates its social media accounts into its online store.
Powerful apps
Showcase your bread with professionally edited photos or build customer loyalty with rewards programs. With over 6000 options in the Shopify App Store, you can customize your store experience and test for success.
Sell everywhere
Sell your bread online, in-person, and wherever your customers are. Quickly accept payments, view sales, fulfill orders, and track inventory with the Shopify POS app—no matter where you sell.
Scalable pricing plans
For bread businesses at every stage and size
Show Plan Prices as Pay yearly (save 25%)* Subscription Rate
Basic
For solo entrepreneurs
Card rates starting at
- 2.9% + 30¢ CAD online
- 2.7% + 0¢ CAD in person
- 2% 3rd-party payment providers
Shopify
For small teams
Card rates starting at
- 2.7% + 30¢ CAD online
- 2.6% + 0¢ CAD in person
- 1% 3rd-party payment providers
Advanced
As your business scales
Card rates starting at
- 2.4% + 30¢ CAD online
- 2.4% + 0¢ CAD in person
- 0.6% 3rd-party payment providers
Start your bread business with Shopify today
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