POS for bakeries

A bakery runs differently from a cafe or a restaurant. Most of the day’s sales happen in the morning, the products are perishable (whatever doesn’t sell today becomes waste), a lot of items sell by weight or by piece, and you restock batch after batch all day long.

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What your POS has to do if you sell baked goods

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How a typical bakery uses El Nido

Saturday, 7 AM:

• A customer asks for 6 conchas, 4 bolillos, and 1 cake to go.
• The cashier taps the products on a visual grid (no digging through a menu).
• Automatic total, paid by card or cash in 15 seconds.
• At 10 AM a fresh batch of cuernitos comes out. The cashier marks “in stock” without editing anything.
• At 2 PM the day’s bolillos run out. The product hides itself or you send it to “out of stock” until tomorrow.

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Waste control that actually matters

What goes in the trash is lost margin. With El Nido you record:

• Product left over today.
• Product that spoiled before it sold.
• Product given away at the end of the day.

At the end of the month you see: you sold $30,000 but waste came to$2,800. Now you adjust tomorrow’s production so waste comes down.

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Products by weight (if that applies)

For bakeries that sell:

• Loose bread (concha by weight vs by piece)
• Cheese and cold cuts by the kilo
• Pasta and flour

You enter the weight or the quantity at checkout and the POS calculates the total at the price per kilo you configured.

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Points card for bakeries

Bakery customers are highly repeat (the same person buys every Saturday). With a digital card in Apple Wallet and Google Pay, they collect points with no physical card and redeem them for free bread or a discount on a birthday cake. Real case: Churrería Las Duyas (León) runs on a digital points card and reports customers who no longer switch to nearby options because they have points saved up.

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When you don’t need this

• You sell fewer than 50 pieces a day.
• You have no employees (you sell yourself).
• You don’t care about measuring your waste.
• Nobody ever asks for an invoice.

At that size, a cash register and a notebook will do.

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What it costs for your size

• Free ($0/mo): a small bakery with a limited catalog (up to 50 products, 1 user).
• Starter ($349/mo): 150 products, 2 users, fast sales, waste tracking, and a basic digital points card.
• Pro ($699/mo): 300 products, 5 users, recipes with cost, a live income statement, advanced analytics, and loyalty tiers with Apple Wallet and Google Pay.
• Business ($999/mo): everything unlimited plus Pío, your AI assistant.

El Nido runs on $0 in transaction commissions, has processed 8,000+ sales and$700K+ MXN, and sets up in about 2 minutes with a 14-day free trial.