Start with the data you already have.
You do not need clean spreadsheets or a perfect setup process. CottageOps works with the real-world records small food businesses already have: Square exports, CSV templates, rough spreadsheets, receipts, images, PDFs, cash notes, and everyday expense notes.
Setup shortcut
Import one Square export and CottageOps can create sales, products, locations, and pop-up events.
Square and CSV imports
Bring in sales exports, CSV templates, and rough spreadsheets without rebuilding every product, sale, and market record by hand.
Expense shortcuts
Add costs from imports, receipts, PDFs, spreadsheets, notes, or quick entry so expense tracking finally gets done.
Napkin Imports
Turn rough records into organized expenses.
Most operators know they should track expenses better. CottageOps makes that easier, so you can see whether the business is actually profitable.
Your business, translated into what needs attention.
Once your sales and expenses are in, Business Health shows whether the business is moving in the right direction: revenue, expenses, estimated profit, margins, cost drivers, and plain-English next steps.
Sales drivers
See which products, order patterns, and customers are creating momentum.
Cost drivers
Identify the expense categories and larger costs pressuring margins.
Market drivers
Compare markets, pop-ups, and locations so effort follows performance.
Recommended next steps
Move from records to action with recommendations about pricing, products, markets, and costs.
Your price might look right until the costs are counted.
Pricing decisions depend on real expenses, product costs, sales behavior, and customer response. CottageOps brings those signals together to recommend whether a product price should hold, rise, or be reviewed.
When ingredients, packaging, fees, and time change, CottageOps helps you see whether the price still makes sense.
Hold Price
The price appears to fit current demand and unit economics.
Raise Price
Strong demand or weak margin suggests the price may be too low.
Review Price
Mixed behavior or margin pressure deserves a closer look.
Which events are worth doing again?
Farmers markets, pop-ups, wholesale accounts, and online orders all tell a different story. CottageOps helps compare them with the sales, expenses, products, and locations connected.
A Square import can help create events and locations, then event insights show where your time and booth fees are paying off.
Markets and pop-ups
Compare markets, pop-ups, and repeat locations based on actual performance.
Food business context
See sales, costs, products, and pricing together before choosing the next event.
See what is carrying the business and what is squeezing it.
CottageOps makes the product and cost questions easier to scan: what sells, what costs too much, and where profit is improving or slipping.
Which products are carrying the business?
Spot top products, order patterns, and what is really driving sales.
Which costs are pressuring margins?
Find the expense categories and larger costs that deserve review first.
Where is profit improving or slipping?
Connect products, markets, pricing, and expenses so margin trends are easier to understand.
See whether customers are coming back.
Track repeat customers, first-time customers, customer concentration, and returning behavior as one more signal in your business picture.
Useful when you need it, secondary to the core sales, expenses, profit, and pricing answers.
Built for busy operators, not analysts.
No accounting degree, spreadsheet rebuild, or complicated analytics tool required. CottageOps is designed for people selling at markets, pop-ups, wholesale accounts, and online.
Already use Square?
Keep using it. Import one Square export and CottageOps can create sales, products, locations, and events.
Already have spreadsheets?
Use them as inputs. CottageOps helps turn spreadsheet data into connected sales, expense, and product records.
Data is messy?
Receipts, images, PDFs, raw text, rough spreadsheets, and exports are acceptable starting points.
No time for data entry?
Sales imports, CSV templates, Prep Imports, Napkin Imports, and quick entry are built to reduce manual setup.
Not an accountant?
Business Health explains what changed, why it matters, and what deserves attention in plain language.
Need practical direction?
See pricing guidance, product focus, market performance, cost pressure, and next steps in plain language.
Ready to get your sales and expenses in one place?
Request early access and see what your products, events, expenses, and pricing are really telling you.
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