What's inside the Cottage Pro dashboard
Cottage Pro used to read as a bundle of reports. The dashboard is the workshop underneath it: your permit checklist, your recipes with their costs, a label for every product, your prices saved, and the sales and expenses that prove the year.
For two years, Cottage Pro read as a bundle of reports: every state report, every county Permit Guide, the label packet. Useful — but a report is something you read once. The dashboard is the part you come back to, because it's where the work lives after the first week.
This is a tour of what's inside. The price hasn't changed: $15 once, lifetime access, and everything public stays free.
It opens on a first page, not a blank overview
The dashboard opens on Start: where you bake, your numbers for the year, your state's sales cap, and where you left off. Five steps run down the page — start the business, get legal to sell, check your foods, label it, sell it and track the money — each one showing done, next, or locked. Nothing is claimed done that the dashboard doesn't already know.
Business: the checklist, not the filing
Step 1 is a checklist with official links: pick a business name, decide sole proprietor or LLC, get a free EIN from the IRS, and find your state agency. Crosodo doesn't file anything for you, and this tab doesn't pretend otherwise. An EIN is free from the IRS; never pay a middleman for one.
Foods: 43 verdicts, plus your recipes
50 states + DC, county zoning, and free county reports.
The Foods tab holds all 43 foods from the Can I Sell dataset, with the verdict for your state — yes, conditional, or no — plus the cap and the statute. Recipes live here as a sub-tab, not their own tab, because a recipe belongs to the food it makes. Save a recipe with its ingredient costs and batch yield, and the cost per batch is there next time you price it. Your first recipe is free to save; the library beyond that is part of Cottage Pro.
Labels: one saved draft per product
The Labels tab still shows your state's required wording — word for word where the state mandates it — and the designer that fills it in and prints. What's new is the library: save the draft under its product name, and next market you reprint instead of retyping. Finished designs can be worked on in Canva, and curated Canva templates are coming to the library. The in-dashboard designer stays a form and a preview; it was never going to become a design editor.
Calculators that remember
The six free calculators stay free on the public site. What's new is saving: price a batch from your own costs — ingredients, your time, overhead — and save the calculation in the tab, so Saturday's price is still there next Saturday. Every number is one you entered. Crosodo has no market-price dataset, so nothing here invents a price for your county.
Financials: sales, expenses, and the profit line
The sales log you already had is now the Financials tab, with expenses next to it: ingredients, packaging, market fees, equipment. The year total shows sales minus expenses as a profit line, and both lists export as CSV for tax time. Logging expenses is part of Cottage Pro.
What's free and what's $15
- Free: your county's answer, every state and county page, the free county PDF, the Can I Sell checker, the six calculators, the label templates — and your first saved recipe, calculation, and label.
- Cottage Pro, $15 once: every state report and county Permit Guide, the permit path, the full saved library, expenses with CSV export, the label packet, and the Verified badge path.
- Not included, now or later: filing your LLC or EIN. That's a checklist with official links, not a service.
The $15 isn't a report. It's the workshop.
If you already have Cottage Pro, sign in and the dashboard is there — Start is the first tab. If you don't, the tour is on the homepage and the full feature page is at crosodo.com/features/dashboard.
Crosodo Journal entries are recipe, craft, and cottage-food notes for home bakers. Recipes assume an active starter and basic equipment. Cottage food sales are governed by your state's law — start with the free state directory, check a product with Can I sell this?, or grab a label template. Not legal advice.
