Cottage HQ helps home-based food businesses organize the recipes, inventory, production, labels, orders, customers, and storefront work that happens behind every sale.
Cottage HQ is built by a founder with a background in business management — years working alongside small operators across food, retail, and services. The pattern is always the same: dedicated people running real businesses with software that wasn't designed for them.
Cottage food in particular sits at an awkward spot. The category is small enough that most general-purpose tools miss it, but specific enough — and different enough in every state — that getting the operations right matters. Operators are running serious businesses on Google Sheets, Facebook DMs, sticky notes, and a folder of receipt photos.
Cottage HQ exists to give those operators one place to run the back office — recipes, pantry, production, compliance organization, labels, orders, customers, storefront — so the work behind their food brand finally has a system designed for it.
Cottage food operators already do the hard work — recipe testing, sourcing ingredients, baking, packaging, labeling, selling, and serving customers. Cottage HQ gives them one place to manage the operations behind that work, so they spend less time on spreadsheets and more time on the product.
Generic small-business tools miss the things that actually matter when you bake from home.
Cost-per-unit, sub-recipes, multi-variant pricing, and density-aware conversions.
FIFO deduction, per-lot cost history, expiration alerts on the calendar.
Batches on a calendar that respects operating hours and capacity.
Smart fields auto-fill from the recipe — ingredients, allergens, batch number, net weight.
Customers pick a window with capacity limits; no double-booking 2pm Saturday.
Allergies, pickup prefs, notes, and full order history stay with every order.
Cottage food rules vary by state — what you can sell, where you can sell it, sales caps, allowed foods, label requirements, and renewal cycles. Cottage HQ helps you keep your certifications, kitchen photos, and license records organized in one place, with renewal reminders so things don't slip past their dates.
It's a working filing cabinet, not a legal team — you remain responsible for following the rules that apply to your business in your state. Cottage HQ provides organization and a state-by-state reference. Final compliance is your call.
Disclaimer: Cottage HQ is operations software. It is not legal, accounting, or tax advice. The state-by-state reference is intended as a starting point — consult your state's official cottage food authority or qualified counsel for the rules that apply to your business.
Cottage HQ is built and run by Bravexa Software, an independent studio. We don't take outside funding, we don't run a sales team, and we don't bury features behind tiers. Cottage HQ is our flagship product.
Practically, that means the person who built the production calendar is the same person who answers your support emails. Feature requests get a real read from a real developer. You won't get bounced through a three-tier support queue, and you won't be asked to upgrade for a basic capability — that isn't how we run.
Have a question? Email us directly at support@cottageheadquarters.com.
14 days, full access, no credit card. Bring your spreadsheet — we'll help you leave it behind.
Start free trial