Festive trading: how to bring calm to chaos
October 21, 2026
Are you already stressing about the holiday season?
If so, I bring tidings of comfort and joy. There is still time to get your baking business better organized before festive trading begins.
Cybake can do your repetitive and mundane admin work for you, smooth out your processes, and even restore your work/life balance, all in time for Thanksgiving in America on November 26.
I am not saying that can we can implement every single element of Cybake in your business straight away. But we move fast, and there are several quicks wins that we can give you before the impending onslaught to make you and your colleagues’ lives much easier.
If you are a wholesaler, for example, we’ll set you up with your own portal to take online orders. This comes as standard in Cybake. Your customers will love it, which is beneficial because during the festive season they tend to make wildly swinging, last-minute amendments to their orders.
Cut-off times
Cybake’s online ordering system enforces cut-off times and, as customers fill in their own orders, your bakery cannot be blamed for any mistakes. That means vastly less hassle over credits and misunderstandings over a super-busy period.
At the same time, and this applies to both retail and wholesale bakeries, we will set up Cybake to take over the management your key production processes.
We will load all your customer info, recipes, and nutritional/allergen data into your new system so that it can help plan production straight away. Cybake will then generate your prep sheets, invoices, picking sheets, and delivery notes for you.
If you are running a wholesale manufacturer, another benefit is that your drivers will be able to use Cybake’s driver delivery app on their cell/mobile phones. They can use the app to optimize their routes, record drop-offs, get signatures or provide proof of deliveries, adjust orders, issue invoices, and, where needed, take cash on delivery.
Any or all of the above can be achieved between now and the end of November. But the window of opportunity is closing fast. Contact us very soon, let Cybake lighten your load, and make this a truly golden quarter.
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Rachel Hindle is the Global Sales & Marketing Manager of Cybake.
