The Cookie Quote Lock Workbook: Quote Custom Decorated Cookies With Minimums, Rush Fees and Revision Limits, for Home-Based Custom Cake and Dessert Bakers
A workbook of 76 items across 16 sections for home bakers and cottage-food owners. You build each cookie quote from dough, icing, packaging, active labor and design detail, with your minimum order, rush-fee rule and revision limit already written down.
- 7-day money-back guarantee
- Workbook / planner
- Quick start: your first 30 minutes
- Start Here: Your Quote Rules and Settings Page
- Cost the Dozen: Dough and IcingCost the Dozen
The problem
You're not sure how to charge for your time on the dough, the icing and the decorating, so the price ends up being whatever feels acceptable to friends and local buyers.
Then a request comes in for 100 cookies with 15 designs, and you start dreading the orders.
Other cookie decorators disagreed about your price, so you still can't tell whether it's right.
You raised what you charge, and now potential customers choose not to place an order, so you back down next time.
Facebook group advice gives conflicting per-dozen numbers, and simple ingredient-cost apps stop before labor, design detail and overhead.
The Cookie Quote Lock Workbook gives you one place to set your own numbers and rules, so you can see before you accept an order whether it pays you for your time.
This is pricing guidance, not accounting or tax advice.
How it works
Cost the Dozen
Enter dough, icing, packaging and supplies to get a true base cost per dozen.
Time the Detail
Assign active-labor hours for prep, design planning, icing and decorating, and set your own hourly target.
Tier the Design
Place each order in a detail tier by design count and intricacy, so a 15-design request prices differently from a single-design one.
Set the Floor
Set minimum order sizes and per-design minimums so small or fussy orders never go below your effort threshold.
Price the Rush
Apply a clear rush-fee rule based on notice given, calculated once on the whole order instead of per dozen.
Fence the Revisions
Define how many design changes are included and what each extra revision costs.
Say It Without Apologizing
Use ready-made quote and push-back scripts to present the price, the minimums and the rules with confidence.
What you get
Build a quote for any custom decorated-cookie order that includes dough, icing, packaging, active labor and design detail, not just ingredient cost. The Dough and icing cost worksheet and the Packaging and supplies cost table feed your Price-per-dozen build-up table.
Set your own target hourly rate and see before accepting an order whether the quote covers it. Your price rests on your numbers instead of other people's opinions.
You're not sure how to charge for your time? The Active-labor time log gives you a place to record prep, design planning, icing, decorating and hidden time, so labor becomes a real line in your quote instead of a guess.
Sort every inquiry into a detail tier so a multi-design request is priced differently from a single-design one. The Detail tier definition table, Multi-design scenario worksheet and Design-count adjustment table do the sorting work.
Write down your minimum order, per-design minimum, rush-fee rule and revision limits once, so you stop improvising them for each inquiry.
Calculate the rush fee once on the whole order, using a Rush fee by notice table, instead of adding it to each dozen.
Present prices, minimums and rules to hesitant customers using the Quote and push-back script worksheet and the Customer reply quick-reference table, so you aren't making up the wording on the spot.
Check your settings against past orders with the Past order re-quote worksheet before you use them on new inquiries. Aim to quote your next 5 custom cookie inquiries at or above your own target hourly rate within 30 days.
Pricing
One-time purchase. Covered by the 7-day money-back guarantee.
Cookie Quote Lock Workbook
- Start Here: your Quote settings master sheet with target hourly rate, tiers, minimums, rush rule, revision limit, quote validity and deposit, plus the not-accounting-or-tax-advice note and the Running example order worksheet
- Cost the Dozen: Dough and Icing, with the Dough and icing cost worksheet and Ingredient price list table, including waste and test-cookie allowance
- Cost the Dozen: Packaging, Supplies and Overhead Share, with the Packaging and supplies cost table and Overhead share worksheet
- Time the Detail: Active-labor time log and Labor hours per dozen summary, covering prep, design planning, icing, decorating and hidden time
- Time the Detail: Target hourly rate worksheet and Price-per-dozen build-up table
- Tier the Design: Detail tier definition table, labor multipliers and Tier decision checklist, plus Multi-design scenario worksheet and Design-count adjustment table
- Set the Floor: Minimum order calculator worksheet, Minimums by tier table, Per-design minimum worksheet and Order floor check
- Price the Rush: Rush-fee rule worksheet and Rush fee by notice table, with the fee calculated once on the whole order
- Fence the Revisions: Revision boundary worksheet and Revision request log
- Say It Without Apologizing: Customer quote sheet, Quote final check, Quote and push-back script worksheet, Customer reply quick-reference table, Price confidence worksheet and Declined quote log
- Test and Adjust: Past order re-quote worksheet and Quote outcome tracker
- All 76 items across 16 sections, including the Quick start: your first 30 minutes section
7-day money-back guarantee
Email within 7 days of your purchase and you will get a full refund.
Questions
If I quote properly, won't my local customers walk away?
The workbook can't promise how any customer will react, and it doesn't pretend to. It gives you your real cost, labor and tier numbers, so you know your floor before you reply. It also gives you quote and push-back scripts for presenting the price, minimums and rules to a hesitant customer. The Declined quote log and Quote outcome tracker give you a place to record what happens, and the Past order re-quote worksheet lets you test your settings on past orders before applying them to new ones.
Facebook groups keep giving me different per-dozen prices. Why would this give me a number I can trust?
It doesn't hand you a universal per-dozen figure. You enter your own ingredient prices, packaging, overhead share, labor hours and target hourly rate, and the Price-per-dozen build-up table shows how the price is built. That gives you a baseline you can explain, because it comes from your numbers and not from a group poll.
I already use an ingredient-cost app. What does this add?
Simple cost apps leave out decorating labor, design detail and overhead, which is where intricate sets lose money. This workbook adds the Overhead share worksheet, the Active-labor time log, the Labor hours per dozen summary, and detail tiers, minimums, rush fees and revision limits on top of ingredient and packaging costs.
How do I price a 100-cookie order with 15 designs?
Start with the Detail tier definition table and the Tier decision checklist to place the order in a tier. Then work through the Multi-design scenario worksheet and Design-count adjustment table to see how design count changes the price. The Per-design minimum worksheet and Order floor check help you set a floor before you accept.
Is a rush fee charged per dozen or on the whole order?
In this workbook, the Rush-fee rule worksheet and Rush fee by notice table have you write a rule tied to notice windows. The fee is calculated once on the whole order, not added to each dozen. You choose your own windows and percentages.
Is this accounting advice, and what if it doesn't fit my business?
No. It is pricing guidance and is not accounting or tax advice. If you email within 7 days of purchase, you get a full refund under the 7-day money-back guarantee.