Expenses
Spot the costs that are starting to move.
Separate everyday operating pressure from larger purchases and see which categories deserve review.
Built for cottage food operators
Know what is working, what is costing you, and what to do next.
Bring your sales, expenses, products, customers, and markets together. CottageOps turns the data you already have into practical business intelligence.
Real CottageOps workflows and dashboards
01 · See what’s working
Understand the business behind the sales.
See the products, customers, events, and markets actually carrying the business.
02 · Know what it costs
Connect spending to real product economics.
Track expense pressure, batch cost, unit cost, labor, packaging, and margin.
03 · Decide what’s next
Turn the numbers into a next move.
Review pricing, product experiments, business changes, and the signals worth watching.
Easy data in
Start with the data you already have.
Your records do not need to be perfect before they become useful. CottageOps works with the way small food businesses already operate: Square exports, CSVs, rough spreadsheets, receipts, PDFs, images, and quick notes.
One useful shortcut
Import one Square export and CottageOps can create sales, products, pop-up locations, and events.
Square and CSV imports
Bring in the records you already have instead of rebuilding the business by hand.
Napkin and Prep Imports
Turn receipts, PDFs, notes, and messy spreadsheets into structured records.
Napkin Imports
Receipts, PDFs, images, raw text, and rough notes are valid starting points.
Receipts
PDFs
Images
Notes
Your records are useful. The answers are better.
CottageOps connects the pieces so you can stop asking “what happened?” and start understanding what changed, what is driving it, and what deserves attention next.
Business Health
See the whole business before chasing one number.
Revenue can rise while costs rise faster. Profit can look healthy while one category is applying pressure. Business Health brings the signals together so the overall story is easier to read.
- See sales, expenses, profit, margin, and returning behavior together.
- Understand what changed compared with the prior period.
- Know which pressure deserves a closer look first.
Sales intelligence
Find out what is actually carrying the business.
CottageOps goes beyond total sales. See whether revenue depends on a few products, a few customers, or a few markets and whether customers are coming back.
Products
See which products are carrying revenue.
Customers
Understand repeat behavior and concentration.
Markets
See which locations deserve your time.
Trends
Know whether momentum is broad or fragile.
Cost clarity
Know where the money is going and what each product really costs.
Expense intelligence shows where spending is moving. COGS & Batch Economics connects ingredients, packaging, labor, and batch yield to the product itself.
COGS & Batch Economics
See what a batch actually costs to make.
Turn ingredients, packaging, labor, and yield into batch cost, unit cost, estimated profit, and direct margin.
Decision tools
The dashboard is not the finish line.
CottageOps helps turn the read into a decision: whether a price should move, whether an experiment deserves another shot, and what happened after you made a change.
Sweet Spot Pricing
Should the price change?
Bring buyer behavior, demand, and margin together in a practical recommendation: hold, move, or keep gathering evidence.
Limited Runs to Review
Which experiments deserve another shot?
Surface limited products worth reviewing based on sales pace, order support, basket depth, and the context around the run.
Business Timeline
What happened after you made the change?
Record price changes, campaigns, product decisions, or operational moves, then compare those moments against the metrics you were trying to influence.
Built for real operators
Built for busy operators, not analysts.
No accounting degree, spreadsheet rebuild, or complicated analytics tool required. CottageOps is built for people making products, selling at markets, working pop-ups, growing wholesale, and trying to understand the business between everything else.
Already use Square?
Keep using it. CottageOps can turn the export into connected sales, products, locations, and events.
Already have spreadsheets?
Use them as inputs instead of rebuilding your existing records around another template.
Data is messy?
Receipts, images, PDFs, notes, rough spreadsheets, and exports are all valid starting points.
No time for data entry?
Sales imports, Prep Imports, Napkin Imports, and quick entry reduce the amount you have to rebuild by hand.
Not an accountant?
Business Health explains the business in plain language instead of expecting you to decode an accounting screen.
Need practical direction?
See the pricing, product, market, and cost signals that deserve attention next.
See your business more clearly
Ready to get your sales and expenses in one place?
Request access and see what your products, events, expenses, and pricing are really telling you.