There are hundreds of bakeries in Hong Kong, and competition is fierce. If you run a cake shop, the following headaches are all too familiar: Customers call or message on WhatsApp to order a birthday cake – they need to choose the style, size, cream flavour, chocolate plaque message, and specify the pickup date and time. Staff write the order by hand and fax it to the factory. Messy handwriting leads to mistakes at any time, and missed or wrong orders happen often. The central factory receives a large number of handwritten orders every day. Which ones are urgent and which are not is guesswork, and production scheduling is a mess. Cakes left unsold in the evening have to be marked down one by one manually, which is extremely troublesome. Member birthday offers rely on human memory, and missing one makes customers feel you do not care. Then there is ingredient wastage – flour, eggs, butter, icing sugar. Buy too much and you cannot sell it all before it perishes; buy too little and you cannot make the cakes. How Should a Cake Bakery Choose the Right System? A good system must know how to handle pre-orders sent directly to the factory, automatic evening clearance promotions, automatic member birthday offer pushes, and precise ingredient cost control – rather than becoming more chaotic the longer you use it. eRun Cake Bakery Retail System, certified with two consecutive HKICT Gold Awards, handles it all in one.
The core need of a cake shop: customers order customised cakes and need to choose the style, size, cream flavour, chocolate plaque message, and pickup date and time. eRun Retail System:
Bakery products are less commonly managed with barcodes, and traditional POS systems are time-consuming when searching for product names one by one. eRun Retail POS:
Cakes have a short shelf life, and unsold cakes in the evening need to be cleared quickly. Traditionally this relies on staff changing prices one by one, which is time-consuming and inefficient. eRun Smart Promotion Engine with 300+ rules:
Cake shops rely heavily on member loyalty, and birthday offers are the ace card for retaining regular customers. eRun Member Rewards System:
The baking industry has high ingredient wastage, and the inventory of flour, dairy products, and other raw materials must be precisely controlled. eRun Inventory System | Two-Time HKICT Gold Award:
Customers want to order cakes but do not want to call? An online store helps you receive orders 24 hours a day. eRun seamlessly connects with your own online store:
Cake shops have many product types and shelf lives to monitor. Traditional manual stocktaking requires counting each item one by one, often until midnight with errors, and you still worry about missing expiry dates. eRun Mobile Stocktaking
As a cake shop owner, you need to know which cakes sell best, which time slots do the most business, and which branch performs best – only then can you buy stock and run promotions effectively. eRun Cloud Reports:
eRun is intuitive to operate, and staff can handle shifts independently in half an hour. We assist with setup according to your actual business (cake styles, promotion rhythm, branch scale) for a fast launch. Local Hong Kong 7×12 support, 9:30am to 10pm, with immediate follow-up on any issues. Leave the Hassles to Us, Focus on Your Cakes The cake business sells sweetness, and what you run is thoughtfulness. Leave the tedious orders, inventory, and promotions to the system, and focus on making great cakes.