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For small food businesses

Owner's view

Run your food business. Not the busywork.

Farin is simple food business software for bakeries, cafés, restaurants, and small food producers. Plan what to make and buy, manage orders, schedule staff, and see the numbers.

Real product screens Core tools are free No credit card

Buttered Up Bakery

Daily view · sample workspace

Demo workspace
Farin dashboard showing sales and labor summaries for a bakery

Daily view · real product screen

Sales, labor, and open work in one place.

Buttered Up demo

Sound familiar?

01 / The pressure

The work that keeps landing on you.

Farin turns repeatable work into something your team can see, share, and finish without you chasing every detail.

01

Your day lives in your head

Opening, prep, handoffs, and follow-up depend on whoever remembers what comes next.

Put repeatable work into checklists your team can actually follow.

02

Buying and production keep moving

Quantities, yields, vendor prices, and production notes change faster than a spreadsheet can keep up.

Keep order guides, recipes, costs, and production decisions together.

03

Orders arrive wherever customers find you

Email, text, website, wholesale, and holiday orders all create another place to check.

Give customers a clear ordering path and keep fulfillment visible.

04

The week is hard to see until it is over

Schedules, timecards, sales, and costs live apart, so the important story arrives late.

See staffing, sales, and money early enough to shape the next week.

The essentials

02 / The work that pays off

The features you will feel every week.

These are the jobs small food businesses usually feel first. Start with one, then connect more when it saves time or protects your margin.

01 Make consistently

Recipes + nutrition

Keep ingredients, yields, nutrition, allergen notes, and production detail together.

One trusted recipe for the kitchen, the label, and the customer.

Explore recipes
02 Protect your margin

Food cost visibility

Use recipe cost tables and changing vendor prices to see what is driving the cost of each product.

Price and plan with more context—not a stale spreadsheet.

See costing tools
03 Sell more simply

Website + online ordering

Publish a branded site, retail menu, and wholesale ordering path from the products you already manage.

Customers know where to go, and your team sees what was promised.

See selling tools
04 Staff the week

Scheduling + timeclock

Build shifts, capture punches on a shared clock, and review missed time before payroll.

Planned hours and actual hours stay close enough to trust.

See staffing tools
05 Keep books moving

AI-assisted accounting

Bring receipts and bank activity together, use suggestions for repetitive work, and review exceptions before posting.

Less manual cleanup without giving up control.

See accounting tools
06 Bring customers back

Email marketing

Build a focused update, choose the right audience, preview it, and send when it is ready.

Turn the customer list you already have into a reason to return.

See customer tools

See the work

03 / The work

Pick the part of your week you want to make easier.

Each part works on its own. Start where the pressure is highest, then add another only when it saves you time.

Farin workflow preview Sample workspace
Farin dashboard showing sales and labor summaries for a bakery
A practical home base for the work that needs attention today.

Know what is happening now and what needs to happen next.

See what needs your attention before the rush.

Open Farin for sales, labor, open work, and the decisions waiting for you.

See the daily view →

Product proof

04 / Real screens

See the screens your team would actually use.

Explore every tool
Farin website builder showing the pages a bakery can publish

A website you can make yours

Choose the pages, style, and customer paths that fit your business without starting from a blank screen.

Buttered Up bakery public website with products, hours, and order buttons

A storefront customers can use

Put your story, products, hours, and ordering path in a polished public website.

Farin email campaign builder showing a newsletter preview and send review

Email that is ready to send

Edit a useful message, choose the audience, and check the mobile and desktop experience before it leaves.

Buttered Up online ordering menu with bakery products and categories

Ordering without the back-and-forth

Let customers choose a location, browse the menu, and place an order from the website you share.

Watch the work

05 / In motion

Watch three common jobs from start to finish.

Short tours of a tenant website, online ordering, and an email your customers can actually use.

Start small

06 / Your pace

Use one useful part. Leave the rest for later.

Bring over the job that is costing you the most time. Keep what already works, learn the new part, and expand only when you are ready.

Choose where to start
01

Pick one job to make easier

Start with the thing you complain about most: ordering, recipes, schedules, wholesale, customer orders, or seeing the numbers.

02

Bring over what you already have

Use your current spreadsheets, exports, website, or connected tools as a starting point. You do not have to rebuild the business in one afternoon.

03

Add the next piece when it earns its place

Once the first job is easier, add another only if it saves time or prevents mistakes. There is no required rollout order.

Your kind of day

07 / Built for you

Built for the people making the decisions and doing the work.

For Bakeries and cafés

Keep recipes, prep, purchasing, orders, and the weekly schedule close together.

First win: Start with recipes, ordering, or your weekly schedule.

For Restaurants and small kitchens

Give the team a clear way to handle service, labor, customers, and follow-up.

First win: Start with checklists, timeclock, or customer ordering.

For Small food producers

Plan production, purchasing, delivery, and wholesale without spreadsheet sprawl.

First win: Start with production, purchasing, or wholesale.

Built from the work

08 / A practical promise

Software with skin in the game.

Farin grew out of more than 15 years running wholesale and retail bakery operations. The core workspace is free because we already run the infrastructure. We received support when we started, and making useful tools easier for small food businesses is one way we give it back.

Core tools stay free

Recipes, production, ordering, staffing, and business visibility are available without a subscription or credit card.

Automation stays reviewable

AI-assisted accounting can prepare suggestions for review before anything is posted to your books.

Optional costs are clear

Features that depend on outside AI or API services may have usage costs in the future. We will make that clear before you use them.

See it before you commit

Explore the shared demo, read the help guides, and start with one job before changing your whole operation.

Good to know

09 / Before you start

Questions owners ask before they start.

What does free mean?

Farin's core workspace and standard business tools are genuinely free. We built it from our own bakery operations and run the infrastructure ourselves, so you can create a workspace with no subscription, sales call, or credit card. Start with one job and add other tools only when they make your week easier.

Will optional AI or connected services cost extra?

Not today. Some optional features may use third-party AI or API services that Farin cannot run on its own infrastructure. If we ever introduce usage charges to cover those outside costs, they would apply only to the optional feature and we would explain them before you use it. Examples could include receipt expense classification, bank statement reconciliation, or wholesale delivery route optimization.

Do I have to use every part of Farin?

No. Use only what helps. A bakery might begin with recipes and purchasing; a café might begin with scheduling and timeclock; a producer might begin with wholesale orders.

Do I have to move everything at once?

No. Start with the job that is costing you the most time and keep your current spreadsheets or tools alongside Farin while you learn. Bring over only what that first job needs, then add more when it earns its place.

Is Farin only for bakeries?

No. Farin is built around the practical work shared by bakeries, cafés, restaurants, and small food producers: making, buying, selling, staffing, and keeping track of the business.

Will my team need to be technical?

No. The everyday screens are made for owners, managers, and staff doing the work. Technical tools are available, but you do not need them to use Farin.

Will accounting AI make decisions or post transactions for me?

No. Farin can create suggested classifications and matches from receipts and bank activity, but those suggestions are reviewable drafts. Ambiguous items stay for your review, and you decide what to apply or post. The goal is less repetitive cleanup without giving up your judgment or your accountant.

Can I try it before I move anything?

Yes. Open the public demo to explore sample recipes, purchasing, wholesale orders, and the daily dashboard before creating your own workspace.

Make the next week easier

A calm place to start

Make one part of next week easier.

Create a free workspace and start with the job you want off your plate. Or open the demo and see the work before you set anything up.