Square-friendly imports
Bring in sales from the Square exports you already use and turn them into connected sales, products, locations, and events.
How CottageOps works
Your business data should help you make decisions.
CottageOps brings together sales, expenses, products, customers, and events so small food businesses can see what is working, what needs attention, and what to do next.
Bring it in
Connect it
Understand it
Decide what to do next
Start with what you have
Start with the data you already have.
You should not need a perfect spreadsheet system before you can use business software. CottageOps works with the information small operators already have: Square exports, spreadsheets, receipts, invoices, PDFs, screenshots, and quick notes.
Less cleanup before CottageOps. More useful data inside CottageOps.
Prep Imports
Give CottageOps a messy sales, product, expense, or event spreadsheet and let it organize the data into structured records.
Napkin Imports
Turn receipts, invoices, screenshots, PDFs, and rough expense notes into expense records without typing everything by hand.
Connected records
Your sales, costs, products, customers, and markets are part of the same story.
CottageOps does not treat each record like an isolated spreadsheet row. It connects the pieces so the same data can answer more useful questions across the business.
Revenue side
Sales
Products
Customers
Markets
Sales can become product performance, customer behavior, event results, concentration signals, and more.
Cost side
Expenses
Ingredients
Packaging
Labor
Product costs and batch economics
The result
Connected records become business intelligence.
The more of the business CottageOps understands, the more useful every dashboard and decision tool becomes.
Business intelligence
See what needs your attention without digging through every number.
CottageOps turns your records into a practical read on the business: what changed, what is driving the result, and which signals deserve a closer look.
Business Health
Get the overall read.
See sales, expenses, estimated profit, margin, customer strength, period-over-period changes, major business drivers, and recommended next steps.
Sales
Understand what is driving revenue.
Follow sales trends, order value, repeat customers, concentration risk, market dependence, product performance, and the patterns worth watching.
Expenses
See where the money is going.
Understand spending pressure, changing unit costs, major cost areas, largest purchases, and whether spending is operational or investment-like.
Decision tools
Turn what you learn into a decision.
Reporting is useful. Knowing what to do with it is better. CottageOps includes tools built around decisions small operators actually have to make.
Sweet Spot Pricing
Should this price actually change?
CottageOps weighs buyer behavior, demand, product economics, business baselines, and data quality before recommending whether to hold, raise, lower, or keep watching a price.
- • Recommended action and confidence
- • Product signals compared with the business baseline
- • Buyer behavior, demand, margin, and economics
Limited Runs to Review
Which experiments deserve another run?
Review short-run products using sales pace, order support, basket behavior, and available selling days so you can see which experiments deserve a closer look.
- • Product-level review score
- • Sales pace and order support
- • Basket behavior and selling-day context
Business Timeline
You changed something. What happened next?
Record pricing changes, bundles, promotions, product changes, or other business decisions and compare them against what happened afterward.
- • Revenue, profit, and orders
- • Average order value and basket size
- • Expenses and other business outcomes
The whole business
See what is carrying the business and what is squeezing it.
A good sales number does not tell you whether the business underneath it is healthy. CottageOps helps you see where revenue comes from, where costs are accumulating, and where dependence or opportunity may be hiding.
Customers
Repeat rate, time to repeat, estimated lifetime value, first-order behavior, and customer concentration.
Products
Revenue, units sold, concentration, direction, limited runs, costs, and product-level performance.
Markets & events
Compare markets, pop-ups, locations, event revenue, average performance, and weather context.
Costs & margins
Connect ingredients, packaging, labor, batch economics, and unit costs to pricing and product decisions.
CottageOps Companion
Ask questions about the business you are already tracking.
CottageOps Companion works with the business context already inside CottageOps so you can ask plain-English questions about sales, costs, products, customers, markets, and performance.
Ask the broader question.
Use Companion when you want another set of eyes on what the business is doing and why.
Get explanations where the signal appears.
Dashboard insights can also explain what the data suggests, what evidence supports the read, and what may be worth checking next.
AI helps you understand the intelligence. It does not replace the underlying numbers.
See what your business is telling you.
Bring your sales, expenses, products, and events into one place and turn the data you already have into clearer decisions.