What's new in BakeOps — May 2026

A short note on what shipped this month, written for the bakers who actually use BakeOps day to day.

Tomorrow’s Prep Sheet

The big one. Open BakeOps on Tuesday evening, hit Prep Sheet, and you get every order due Wednesday rolled into:

• a single shopping list with quantities totalled across orders,
• a production plan that tells you what to bake and how many,
• a day P&L showing revenue, ingredient cost, and estimated profit.

Tap Share on WhatsApp to send the shopping list to whoever’s going to the market. It opens their WhatsApp with the list already typed. We watched one baker take this from “I want to send the list” to “list sent” in 14 seconds.

Why we built it: you were already doing this on paper at 11pm and getting butter wrong by 200g once a week. Now you’re not.

Per-order P&L on the order card

Open any order in Orders and you now see the estimated profit and margin for that specific order, computed from its line items’ recipe costs. The next time someone asks for “thoda discount”, you’ll know exactly how much room you actually have.

Stale-price warning on the costing page

If an ingredient’s default price hasn’t been refreshed in more than 14 days, the costing page now flags it amber. You can set your own price right there — your number, not the seed. Recipes using it reprice instantly.

Customer totals that actually total

The total_orders and total_revenue columns on customers have existed for a while. They were never being updated. They are now — every time an order moves to delivered. Old delivered orders backfill next time anything touches them.

Ready-for-pickup WhatsApp template

The order page already wrote your confirmation message for you. It now writes the ready for pickup message too. One tap, one prefilled WhatsApp, send. Stop typing the same eight sentences forty times a week.

Admin: Blinkit / Zepto price compare

For founder eyes only. There’s now an admin tool that surfaces observed Blinkit and Zepto prices next to your current curated default, with a per-unit delta. Two important honesty notes because this category has a lot of marketing dishonesty in it:

1. The web scrape is best-effort. Both sites gate products behind their location flow and ship bot defenses. The reliable path is the Import button — paste what you see on the site, get it priced and compared. The scrape is a convenience, not a feed.
2. “Apply” is non-destructive. Applying a scraped price writes a new row sourced <platform>_scrape — the curated seed is preserved as history. Revert drops the scraped row and the curated price resurfaces. Nothing is overwritten, nothing is lost.

If you’re a baker, you don’t see this tool. If you’re me, it saves an hour every Sunday.

Coming up

A few things I’m working on, no promises on dates:

• A 9pm reminder the night before delivery — push you to your prep sheet so you don’t have to remember to open the app.
• Pack-size rounding on the shopping list (“buy 1kg, need 940g”) so you’re not summing grams when the shop sells in tubs.
• A Hindi/Hinglish UI for the order page — the costing engine already accepts mixed-language input; the buttons should too.

If any of these would unblock you, hit reply. Half of what I build comes from one baker telling me what’s still annoying.

— Dilip