A more organized way to sell what you make in small batches.
Small Batch is built for the loaf-of-the-week baker, the backyard egg seller, the weekend flower grower. You make a limited number of something good. You have a list of people who want it. We make the handoff feel effortless.
No app to download. You sign in from any web browser — phone, tablet, or laptop — and subscribers just get a text from Small Batch Sellers. Nothing for them to install either.
The method, in four steps
- Buyers follow you on Small Batch
Share your signup link or QR code in your existing group thread, Instagram bio, or porch sign. Buyers add themselves and reply YES to confirm. Small Batch is the sender of record — you stay focused on baking.
- Post your drop
Add what you're selling — sourdough, eggs, honey, bouquets — with a price and how many you have. Multiple items per drop, each with its own count.
- Small Batch Sellers texts your subscribers
When you start a drop, Small Batch Sellers — as the registered SMS sender — sends a personal reservation link to each subscriber following you. No group thread, no broadcast, no spam.
- Customers reserve, then it sells out automatically
They tap the link, pick what they want, and reserve. Inventory locks the moment they claim. When stock hits zero, anyone who got the invite but didn't claim gets one friendly 'sold out, catch you next time' text from Small Batch — automatically.
Here's what subscribers actually see.
The opt-in text, the YES reply, and a real drop invite — plus the reservation page that opens when they tap the link.
Growing your subscribers without typing 50 phone numbers
Buyers add themselves through your signup link — a short URL like smallbatchdrops.com/join/your-handle that they fill out themselves. Share it once where you already talk to customers, and the list grows on its own.
- Group threads & social
Drop the link in your existing bread group text, Instagram bio, or Facebook post. Each person taps, enters their name + number, and replies YES.
- QR code for in-person
Generate a QR from your dashboard for farmer's markets, porch pickups, or a friend's kitchen. They scan with their camera and they're in.
- Always double opt-in
Every signup — link, QR, or your manual add — triggers a YES-reply confirmation. That's what keeps your number in good standing with carriers.
- You stay in control
Anyone on the list can be removed in one tap. Change your handle anytime. Pause the link by clearing the handle.
The concept
No marketplace. No public storefront. No discovery feed full of strangers. Small Batch is a private channel between you and the people you've already chosen to sell to. You stay in control of who gets the link, and your customers get a quiet, personal way to claim their share.
Our beliefs
Small Batch is shaped by a few stubborn convictions about how small selling should feel. They guide what we build — and just as importantly, what we refuse to build.
- Real community, not a storefront
A loaf handed across a porch is a small act of community. We're not trying to flatten that into a checkout flow with a star rating. Small Batch stays out of the way so the relationship between you and your neighbor stays the main thing.
- Satisfying trades without growth-at-all-costs pressure
We won't market you to strangers, push you to scale, or nudge you to bake more than you want to. There's no algorithm rewarding hyper-growth here. We're built for the transaction stage with customers you already know — and we think "comfortably sold out" is a beautiful place to land.
- Love of neighbor, honest transactions, less screen time
The best part of selling something you made is the person who picks it up. We want to shrink the online piece — fewer posts, fewer DMs, less social media presence — so you can spend more time on the real bits of life: the kitchen, the garden, the hand-off at the door, the actual neighbors.
What makes this better than group texting?
- No more double-booked loaves
Inventory locks at claim time. The third person can't reserve the second loaf.
- No replies to triage
Reservations come in through the link, not your inbox. Your personal texts stay yours.
- No public storefront
Your drops are private. Only your subscribers see them.
- Live counts for everyone
Customers see what's left in real time. So do you, on your dashboard.
- Auto sold-out replies
Late arrivals get a friendly note. Nobody feels ignored.
- Built for the phone
Works in any text-message app and any phone browser. Nothing to install.
About paying for the loaf
For clarification: Small Batch doesn't handle the money for your sale. We're a reservation tool, not a checkout. When your customer shows up to grab their bread, jam, eggs, or bouquet, you settle up the way you always have — cash, Venmo, Zelle, Cash App, a check on the counter, whatever already works between you and your regulars.
That's a deliberate choice. Payment processors take a cut of every sale (usually around 3% plus a fixed fee), and on a $6 loaf or a $4 jar of jam, that adds up fast. By keeping the transaction offline, you keep your full sale price, and we get to keep this app dead simple and cheap to run.
Small Batch's job is the part that's actually annoying — the "who gets one, who's next, who already claimed two" coordination.
What it costs
Two small charges. That's the whole pricing page.
Keeps the app online — hosting, maintenance, and steady improvements. Cancel anytime.
Covers SMS delivery and processing fees for that drop. Send to up to 30 contacts per drop. We don't pad it.
Your first drop is free. Try a real send before you pay anything — no card needed to start.
A few honest limits
We'd rather tell you up front than surprise you later. Small Batch has a couple of guardrails baked in:
- Up to 100 subscribers
Your private contact list holds up to 100 people. That's plenty for the regulars who actually show up week after week. If your list grows past that, you can remove inactive folks — or email us and we'll figure something out.
- Up to 30 invites per drop — but no cap on what's in the drop
Each drop goes out by SMS to up to 30 contacts. That's the only number we limit — there's no cap on how many items you put in a drop, or how much of each. Two loaves or twenty. One bouquet style or six. Eggs, jam, and honey all in the same send. Stock whatever you've actually got.
A little guidance: invite the 30 people most likely to say yes this week. If your batch is bigger than that group can absorb, run a second drop a day or two later to a different 30 — fresher, more personal, and it usually sells out faster than one giant blast would.
If you're moving hundreds of items a week, running a wholesale operation, or building a big public storefront, Small Batch is probably going to feel too small for you — and that's okay. There are great tools out there built for that kind of scale, and we genuinely wish you the best of luck finding the right fit. We're here for the weekend bakers, the backyard egg folks, and the makers who just want to sell out their batch without the chaos.
Who it's for
- • Home bakers selling weekly loaves, pastries, or bagels
- • Backyard chicken keepers with a steady egg surplus
- • Beekeepers, jam-makers, picklers, granola folks
- • Flower farmers and bouquet subscriptions
- • Anyone with a phone full of regulars and a limited Saturday batch
Less coordination. More baking.
Your first drop is free. Set it up in a few minutes and see how much easier sell-out Saturday feels.