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Sell cakes online in Kenya
Three cake boards wait on the counter for Saturday. To sell cakes online in Kenya, open your own website on Mybizna. It takes each order with the size and flavour written down. So the chat is about the design, not the maths.
KSh 0 to start,
no card.
Stop answering "bei gani ya 2 kg?"
Half a kilo, one kilo, two kilos. Vanilla, red velvet, black forest. A cake listing on Mybizna holds up to three options, and each size has its own price. The page answers the price question for you.
The buyer picks and sees the total. Once you have set your areas, the total includes your delivery fee. Then they pay by M-Pesa or card, or choose cash on delivery. You get the order with every choice spelled out, not a screenshot to read twice.
Photos make the sale, so take them on your phone. Mybizna fills in the name and a description for you to check. It does this five times a month on Free. During the trial there is no limit.
Did your website come from your Instagram posts? Then Mybizna cut out the photos that pass its check. Each one sits on a plain backdrop in your website's look. The cake itself stays exactly as you photographed it. Photos you add from your phone show just as you took them.
Take a deposit before you buy the butter
A custom cake needs money down. Once you have added your payout number, open Invoices. Add a line you name yourself, like "Deposit, two-tier vanilla, Saturday 22nd". Type the amount and send it.
The customer gets a text with a link and pays by M-Pesa or card. You see the moment it is paid. Reminders go out before the due date and on it, and you write none of them. Free includes ten bills a month.
The balance can be a second bill, or cash when the cake is collected or delivered. Each order and its payments sit in one list with the buyer's number. The Saturday rush becomes a list to work through, not a chat to scroll.
Get the cake there, with the fee agreed
Add the areas you deliver to, each with its own fee. Or price by distance from your kitchen's pin. Turn pickup on if buyers may collect, and put the pickup address on your Delivery page. Until you add your areas, you confirm the delivery fee with the buyer after they order.
When a paid order goes out, you send your rider the details from your own WhatsApp. The rider gets a page to mark it Handed over. The buyer gets a text that the cake is on its way, with the rider's name.
What does it cost to sell cakes online?
On Free, the Mybizna fee is 3.9% of each online payment. Cash orders carry no Mybizna fee. Your first business gets a 14-day trial of Pro, with no card. It starts once your phone number is confirmed.
Until your ID is approved, buyers pay by paybill from their own M-Pesa menu. Once it is approved, two things start. Buyers get an M-Pesa prompt on their phone. And online sales reach your M-Pesa or bank about two working days after each sale. Here is how to open before Saturday.
How it works
Open your website
Type your Instagram handle on mybizna.com. About a minute later, your posts are a website. Or sign up with your phone number and the code we text you.
Add your cakes
Make one listing per cake, with its sizes and a price for each. Say in the description which ones need a deposit.
Set delivery and pickup
Add your areas with their fees, or price by distance. Then say whether buyers can collect.
Add your M-Pesa number and ID
Add the payout number in Money and your ID in Get verified. Prompts and payouts begin once your ID is approved.
Send the link
Put it under every post and in every "bei gani?" chat. The link takes the order and the payment.
Questions
- Can a buyer pick the date on my website?
- No, not on the cake itself. Agree the day in the chat. Then bill it, with the day in the line's name. Or let them order from the page and write the day in the delivery note.
- Can I take a deposit and get the rest later?
- Yes, once you have added your payout number. Bill the deposit as a line with the amount you choose. The rest is a second bill, or cash at hand-over.
- Do I need a business licence to sell cakes online?
- Mybizna does not ask for a licence. You need a phone number to start. To get online payments, you also need an ID. Your sales are yours to declare.
- What if a buyer says the cake is not like the photo?
- You decide, in your own returns words. They sit under the pay button and on your Returns page.
