Stenson Digital

Web design for bakeries

Websites for bakeries that actually bring in work.

Marketing-led websites for Melbourne bakeries — built to rank locally, designed to convert, with the post-launch reporting nobody else includes. From A$3,200.

For bakeries, specifically

What I know about your niche.

Most Melbourne bakery websites are under-loved — a logo, an Instagram embed, opening hours, and a Google Maps pin. That’s a placeholder, not a website. Bakeries that grow beyond walk-in have websites that do specific commercial work.

What actually moves the needle for a Melbourne bakery website:

  • Real product photography. A photographer for A$600-1,200 produces 30-50 product shots. Single highest-ROI investment for a bakery website.
  • Celebration-cake direct ordering. High-margin, pre-paid, captures off-hours customers. Shopify or Square-integrated ordering with order-form for customisation.
  • Wholesale page with depth. Sample product list, MOQs, lead times, clear enquiry path. Captures B2B that most bakeries lose.
  • Catering and event content. Weddings, corporate, function bakeries. High-margin, often unmarketed.
  • Specialty positioning where applicable. Gluten-free, vegan, kosher, sourdough specialist — niche SEO opportunities.
  • Maintained Google Business Profile. Local foot-traffic decisions heavily map-pack-led.
  • Speed. Bakery searches happen on phones in real-time. Sub-1-second mobile load.

Bakery types that work with the marketing-led approach: artisan / sourdough specialist, French / European pastry, celebration cakes and wedding cakes, café-bakeries with dine-in component, wholesale-focused bakeries, specialty (gluten-free, vegan, kosher), multi-site bakery groups, dessert-and-sweets specialists.

What every bakeries website needs

How it runs

Same process. Tailored to your niche.

Full method here. Short version below.

  1. 1. Discovery

    Two-week structured workshop including a marketing brief that's specific to bakeries — what your customers Google, what your competitors are getting wrong, where leads should be coming from.

  2. 2. Build

    4–6 weeks. Copy drafted before design. SEO and GBP set up in the build phase.

  3. 3. Launch + 6 months of reporting

    Lighthouse 95+ at launch. Monthly performance reports for 6 months.

Pricing

From A$3,200. Calculator gives a real number in 30 seconds.

FAQ

Things bakeries ask before booking.

Our walk-in is consistent. Why a website?

Walk-in is a ceiling. The website unlocks (a) celebration-cake direct orders (high-margin, often pre-paid), (b) wholesale enquiries from cafés and restaurants wanting your products, (c) catering and event bookings (weddings, corporate). Each is meaningful revenue walk-in alone won't reach.

Photography — phone or professional?

Pay a photographer. Bakery products are visual products — A$600-1,200 for a session producing 30-50 product shots transforms how the site feels and how products sell. Phone photos of baked goods rarely capture what they look like to a customer.

Online ordering for celebration cakes — really worth setting up?

Massively. Celebration-cake orders are high-margin (A$80-300+ per cake) and pre-paid. Most bakeries take these orders by phone or in-person which loses sales when the bakery is closed. A direct-order flow with deposit-on-order captures off-hours and weekend-planning customers.

Wholesale — how do bakeries communicate this?

Dedicated wholesale page with sample product list, minimum order quantities, lead times, and a clear enquiry form. Most bakeries either don't surface wholesale at all (losing meaningful B2B) or treat it as throwaway content.

Specialty (gluten-free, vegan, kosher, sourdough) — niche?

Real. Specialty bakery searches (gluten-free bakery Melbourne, vegan bakery [suburb], sourdough specialist) have under-targeted volume. Dedicated content for specialties captures higher-margin specialty customers.

Next step

Let's talk about your specific situation.