The Cake Ninja Cake Business Organizer is a simple, complete and reliable tool to price your cakes for profit and keep your business organized. ($69.99 plus tax)
It manages and calculates all this:
1. COSTS FOR:
-ingredients, labor, tax and delivery
2. Your profit
3. Order and payment tracking
4. How much batter, filling and frosting you need for all standard pans.
5. How many those cakes will serve, based on party servings.
6. Archives-keeps all cakes and orders forever.
Features:
1. Ingredients already loaded so you don't have to reinvent the wheel. SAVES TIME! You just input your particular prices.
2. Easy adding of unique ingredients that you use.
3. Tabs to help you keep track of which vendors offer the best prices for ingredients and materials.
4. Price list for your commonly made items to avoid re-pricing those things you make often.
5. Price checker: a way to see if your current price is making you money or not.
6. Ingredients pre-converted so you don't have to convert when you input into your recipes
7. Automatic calculation of pricing at various profit margin levels and final quote output.
8. Mobile friendly so when you see something on sale, you can check against your price on your phone and see if you should stock up.
9. Supporting resources for checking serving sizes, amounts needed for different cake sizes, tracking your orders so you know what is coming up, and more.
10. Customer support from the creator.
11. Buy it once and it is your forever, NO monthly subscription!
12. NOT an app, which can crash, become useless if not updated, and require monthly subscription fees. YET, it works on your phone!
13. Works seamlessly with the Paprika app, which stores all your recipes and can scale them when the Ninja tells you how much of each recipe you need. NO WASTE! and NO RUNNING OUT OF BATTER, FILLING OR FROSTING!
14. Order tracker that keeps your upcoming orders front and center so you can plan and NOT FORGET ANY ORDERS!
15. Payment tracking tells you what your quote is, what they have paid, what they still owe and it gives the date (one month prior) that you need to request the final payment.
16. SET UP: Takes 1-2 hours to set up with your particular numbers. Then you are off! You can occasionally review your numbers (ingredient costs, mostly) to keep it up to date.
17. Tired of asking customers (especially brides) the same questions? The Ninja has a survey which you can send to your prospective client. They fill it out and it imports automatically into your spreadsheet. All the information in one place!
18. Have your clients sign a TERMS AND CONDITIONS (I used this instead of a cake contract) and keep track of who has signed automatically!
Easily see where your business is going with several handy charts that appear by magic once you put in the data. These charts tell you per month what is the Gross Income, Gross Sales, Profit Margin, Labor, and in actual Profit you made, # of Sales and what are your most commonly used forms of payment. These charts help you see weaknesses in your business so you can target them for improvement.
Below are several short videos below that explain the Cake Ninja and how to use it. If you are interested in finding out more, click the first one, the overview. If you already have the Ninja and want help customizing it, click the video that pertains to your area of interest. You can always contact me if you have questions.