Custom Cake Order Book with Deposits, Lead Times and Pickup Calendar

Custom Cake Order Book is an offline app (one HTML file in a zip) for a baker who takes cake orders by message. You list your cakes with serves, price and the notice each one needs. Each order records the flavour, the writing on the cake, any allergy request, the pickup date and time, the extras, and every payment. The app will not confirm an order until the deposit is in, and will not take a cake for a day that is already full.

The problem it removes: Cake orders and deposits are scattered across chats. A three tier cake is accepted with two days notice, five cakes are promised for one Friday, the deposit is never chased, and a customer arrives for the balance nobody wrote down. This app keeps the order, the deposit and the balance together and stops the bookings you cannot bake.

What is inside:

• Cake list with serves, price and minimum notice days per cake, flavours and a place for the inscription and design notes
• Allergy note and a nut-free tick on every order, printed on the bake sheet
• Deposit rule: an order cannot be confirmed until the deposit percentage you set has been paid
• Minimum notice rule per cake, with a rush tick when you agree to shorter notice, and a limit on cakes per pickup day
• Payments log (deposit, part payment, final payment, refund) with balance, and no collection until the balance is paid
• Pickup calendar, bake board, bake list for today and tomorrow, deposit reminders and pickup messages on WhatsApp
• Example data you can load in one click, a Start here guide and an Honest limits panel
• JSON backup and restore, CSV export, and CSV import with a check of every row before anything is added

Who it is for: home bakers, small cake shops, dessert makers and sellers of party treats in the UAE who take custom orders by message and bake in small numbers.

What it is NOT: It does not take online orders or card payments, does not send messages by itself (it opens WhatsApp with the text ready), does not scale recipes or cost the ingredients, and does not handle food safety records or licences. The cancellation wording is sample text you replace with your own. Allergy fields record what the customer told you: they are not a safety system. It is not legal, tax or accounting advice, it is not connected to any government system, bank or messaging service, and it does not file or send anything by itself. UAE e-invoicing is not part of it.

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Verified by us: scripted tests in Chromium (153 checks through the real screens: adding, editing and deleting records in every table, required-field messages, backup then clear then restore, CSV export then import, keyboard order, print layouts rendered to PDF, no horizontal scrolling at 375 and 1280 pixels, no network requests) and an independent recalculation by a separately written Python evaluator of 1262 calculated values (25 randomised rows plus the example data) with 0 mismatches. Safari engine (WebKit): smoke test passed; Firefox: could not be launched. Not tested: Firefox beyond what is stated here, and no real printer was used (print layouts were checked as PDF).