How people decide where to order a cake
Cake customers start from the occasion and the date. They think “a cake for my daughter’s sixth birthday on Saturday”, not “a two-kilo sponge with cream”. They search on the phone, often for the type of shop plus the town, and look at the map, the stars and above all the photos. Photos sell cakes. If they find a cake like the one they imagine, the next questions come quickly: how many people will it feed, how far ahead do I have to order, can I pick it up on Sunday morning, do you deliver, is there nut in it. If these answers are not visible, many people simply keep scrolling. Your website answers them in a fixed order: photos by occasion, servings, lead time, pick-up and delivery, allergens, and then a cake order form that asks for exactly the details you need. Your Google Business Profile is the other half. It must show the same hours, the same address and a website button that leads to your own site. La Lavinia, a family cake shop in Arad, had an unclaimed profile without hours, a wrong postcode on Google and in directories, and a website link that pointed to a social media page. I claimed and verified the profile, fixed the postcode and built lalavinia.ro with six product categories and an order form called “Tell us what cake you’d like”. Two days after launch the shop appeared correctly on Google Maps, and on 12 October 2026 the site scored 100 on all four PageSpeed mobile scores. The same order of work fits most bakeries: correct data first, then a site that shows the cakes and takes orders.
What a bakery website gets
Catalogue by category with photos
Birthday cakes, children’s cakes, wedding cakes, cupcakes, pastry platters, bread: each category gets its own photos and a short text. Visitors find their kind of cake in two taps instead of scrolling through old posts.
Cake order form with a date
Occasion, number of people, flavour, text on the cake, pick-up date and pick-up or delivery. The form follows your own rule on lead time, for example at least three days ahead, and arrives as one complete message.
Servings guide
A small table or a few lines that say how many people each size feeds, based on your own sizes. It answers the most common question before anyone calls and helps people order the right cake the first time.
Allergens for each product
Each product shows the main allergens it contains. EU Regulation 1169/2011 requires allergen information for non-prepacked food too, and each country sets part of the details of how it must be given. This is general information, not legal advice: check with your local food authority.
Delivery zones and pick-up times
A map shows where you deliver and where customers should pick up instead, with the delivery fee if there is one. Pick-up hours for orders are written separately from the shop hours if they differ.
Seasonal offers
Easter, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, graduation season: a section on the page shows the current seasonal range and the last order date. When the season ends, it is swapped for the next one.
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