How to get a website for your bakery in a day

By Povilas, who runs Ginta · 19 October 2026 · 7 min read

You can get a working bakery website live in a day if you gather the facts first: your opening hours, what you bake with prices written as text, how people order (especially cakes), allergen information, and where to find you. The building itself takes minutes with an AI website builder; the rest of the day goes into checking details, taking a few photos and putting the link where your customers already look.

This guide works with any website builder. The building steps use Ginta, which we make.

What a bakery website needs

People visit a bakery's website with one of a few questions. Answer each one on the page, in words.

• "Are you open, and until when?" Opening hours, closed days, and an honest line if you close when you sell out ("open 7–2, or until the bread runs out").
• "What do you bake, and what does it cost?" Your everyday bread and pastries, weekend specials, and prices, as text. A photo of the chalkboard is hard to read on a phone and goes out of date the day you change a price.
• "Can I order a cake?" How much notice you need, sizes and servings, flavours, starting prices, how to pay a deposit if you take one, and a way to send the details.
• "Is it safe for me to eat?" Which bakes contain gluten, nuts, milk, eggs or sesame, and how to ask for full allergen information.
• "Where are you?" Address, a map, parking or the nearest stop, and whether you deliver or supply cafés.

Everything else (your story, the flour you use, the people behind the counter) is lovely to have, after those five.

A word on allergens

In the EU, allergen information is required for food that isn't prepacked too, and if people can order online it has to be available before they pay; the UK's Food Standards Agency gives similar guidance. We summarised the rules, with links to the European Commission and the FSA, on our restaurant website page. A practical minimum for a bakery website: allergy labels on each bake, and one clear sentence on how to get full information. This is general information, not legal advice; check your local rules.

The one-day plan

Morning: gather the facts (about an hour)

Open a note on your phone and write down:

1. Your bakery's name, exactly as on your sign.
2. One sentence about what you bake and where: "sourdough, viennoiserie and celebration cakes in Leeds".
3. Opening hours for every day, including closed days.
4. Your ten best sellers with prices. Add sizes where it matters (half loaf, whole loaf; 6-inch, 8-inch cake).
5. Your cake rules: notice needed, starting prices, servings, deposit, collection or delivery.
6. Allergens for each item on the list.
7. Address, phone, email, and WhatsApp if you use it for orders.

Late morning: take photos (about 30 minutes)

Shoot in daylight by a window: the counter in the morning, a cut loaf, a tray of pastries, one celebration cake, the shop from outside so people recognise it. A phone is enough. Stock photos will do for the first version if you're short of time, but real bakes sell better.

Midday: build the website (minutes)

With Ginta:

1. Describe the bakery in one sentence on ginta.app. Write like you'd text a friend: "A bakery in Leeds, sourdough and pastries, celebration cakes to order, open Tuesday to Saturday 7 to 2".
2. Create a free account when asked and confirm your email. Ginta keeps what you wrote and builds right after.
3. Answer the quick questions. Ginta asks for details it shouldn't guess, like your name, phone and address. A website with a made-up phone number is worse than none; if you skip a question, that part is left out.
4. Wait about a minute. The website is live at an address like your-bakery.ginta.page.

Early afternoon: add your bakes, cake orders and allergens

Ginta has ready-made parts for exactly this, which you manage yourself afterwards without the AI:

• Menu: your bakes with prices, sizes and allergy labels. Change a price or mark the cinnamon buns sold out in seconds. Included on every plan.
• Quote requests for cakes: people pick what they want (a birthday cake, a wedding cake), answer your questions (date, servings, flavour), add a photo of an idea and their contact details. The request lands in your Ginta inbox and by email. Included on every plan.
• Announcements for "Closed Monday for a family event" or "Hot cross buns are back": they take themselves down on the date you choose.

Just ask in the chat: "Add our menu: sourdough loaf £5, cinnamon bun £3, croissant £2.20, with allergy labels" or "Add a cake order form: occasion, date, number of people, flavour, a photo of an idea". Then read the page like a customer and ask for anything that's missing.

Want people to order and pay online for collection? Ginta's shop, with products, a cart and orders, comes with paid plans; taking card payments through your own Stripe account isn't open yet. Most small bakeries start with enquiries and payment on collection, which works on every plan.

Afternoon: check it on your phone

Open the link on your phone and check:

1. Tap the phone number. Does your phone offer to call it?
2. Are the hours right, including the closed days?
3. Are the prices and allergy labels right?
4. Send yourself a cake enquiry. Did it arrive?

Swap in your own photos: drop them into the chat, or click any photo on the page and replace it.

End of the day: put the link where people look

• Your Google Business Profile: add the website address, and make the hours match the website exactly.
• Your Instagram bio, WhatsApp Business profile and email signature.
• A small card by the till, or a line on your paper bags: "Order cakes at …".

Want your own domain, like yourbakery.co.uk? You buy it from a registrar and connect it with a few DNS records: how to connect your own domain. On Ginta it comes with paid plans (from €5 a month).

A real example: a bakery website built from ChatGPT

You don't have to use Ginta's own chat. This demo bakery website was designed and published by ChatGPT with Ginta connected, from a short description of a Bristol bakery (sourdough, cinnamon buns, celebration cakes, a cake enquiry). How that works: ChatGPT website builder.

Mistakes we see on bakery websites

• Prices only in a photo of the chalkboard, or no prices at all.
• A cake page with no lead time, so people ask for a three-tier cake for tomorrow.
• Hours that don't match Google, especially after a holiday.
• No allergen information, or only "ask in store".
• Instagram as the only menu. Old posts keep showing old prices, and a grid is hard to search.

What it costs

Building a one-page website with our best AI usually uses about 20 credits (more pages use more), and every new account gets 20 free credits when it confirms its email, plus 3 a day. The Free plan includes 20 websites at a Ginta address with a small "Made with Ginta" badge, with the menu and quote requests included. Your own domain and no badge start at €5 a month (Hosting, if you build with your own Claude or ChatGPT) or €12 a month on Light, with 120 credits a month for changes by Ginta's AI. Everything: pricing. For the full picture, including domains and designers: How much does a small business website cost in 2026?

Written with AI help for Ginta, which Povilas runs; he also teaches a website-building course. The screenshots are from the real Ginta on the date above, and prices come from our pricing page.