About Traders Till

Built for food makers,
not accountants.

Traders Till is the bookkeeping and sales tracker for people who sell what they make at home. We cost your recipes, keep you compliant, and hand the numbers back to you in plain English, so you can get back to the part you love.


Pre-launch and building in the open. No card, no spam.

Traders Till
Manage. Track. Grow.
Cost every product to the gram
Cottage food labels & caps, built in
Profit by product and by venue

Why we exist

The tools never fit the people who make things.

Accounting apps are built for agencies and online stores. They ask about invoices and clients, not batches and stand days. So most food makers fall back on a shoebox of receipts, a note on their phone, and a guess about whether the market was actually worth it.

That guessing costs money and peace of mind. Traders Till starts from how you already work and does the math you were never supposed to do by hand.

The shoebox
Receipts in a drawer, sales in your head, and a scramble every April.

The guesswork
A price that feels about right, with no idea what margin it actually leaves.

The Traders Till way
Costs, sales and compliance in one place, in words you already use.

Our mission

Help home food makers run a real business without losing the joy of making.

Everything we build ladders up to three things.

Know your numbers

What each jar, loaf and bouquet really costs, and what it actually earns you, without a spreadsheet.

Stay compliant

Cottage food labels and sales caps handled in the background, so a good day never turns into a problem.

Keep the joy

Less time on the books at the kitchen table, more time doing the part you actually love.

What we believe

Four things that shape every decision.

Honest

We are pre-launch and we say so. No invented reviews, no fake urgency, no numbers we cannot stand behind.

Maker first

Built around how food makers actually work: small batches, farmers markets, pickup, a real life around it.

Plain English

You log what you baked and what you sold in normal words. We handle the accounting language for you.

Privacy respecting

Your recipes, costs and customers are yours. We do not sell your data or hand it to advertisers.

April Lee, founder of Traders Till, with her palomino horse Malibu April Lee · Founder
Who is behind Traders Till

A single mom building the tool she wants for her own future stand.

Traders Till is made by April Lee. She grew up around horses, earned a B.S. in pre-veterinary science from Cal Poly Pomona’s College of Agriculture, ran a small ranch selling eggs and chicks, and spent about twenty years in software. She is building Traders Till for the Florida farm stand she plans to run, which means she is her own hardest user.

Read April’s story


Pre-launch · building in the open

What we are building, and where we are.

We are honest about our stage: Traders Till is not live yet. Here is what it is being built to do, so you know exactly what you are joining the waitlist for.

  • Cost a recipe to the gram and see your true margin before you set a price.
  • Log sales by channel: market, pickup, wholesale, and see profit per venue.
  • Generate compliant cottage food labels and track your state sales cap.
  • Keep customers, orders and a simple order book in one place.
  • See plain-English reports at tax time, without hiring anyone.
Product screenshot · costing view

Real app screenshots drop in before launch. No staged mockups.

Who it is for

If you make it and sell it, this is for you.

Bakers & cottage bakeriesEgg & poultry sellersJam & preserve makersHoney & beekeepersSoap & candle makersFlower & produce growers

See the trades we build modules for

Stand stories are coming
As early makers put Traders Till to work, their real stories will live here. We would rather leave this space honest and empty than fill it with invented reviews.

Common questions

The things makers ask first.

Is Traders Till available yet?
Not quite. We are pre-launch and building in the open. Join the waitlist and we will send one email the day you can sign up, with founder pricing locked in for early makers.
How is this different from regular accounting software?
Generic tools are built for consultants and online shops, not someone selling jam at a Saturday market. Traders Till speaks in batches, jars and stand days. Costing, labels and compliance are built in, not bolted on.
Will it help with taxes?
It keeps your income, costs and profit organized in plain English all year, so tax time is a clean export instead of a shoebox. It does not replace an accountant, but it gives you and them a lot less to untangle.
What will it cost?
There is a free tier for up to 50 sales a month, no card required. The Sprout plan starts at $5 a month at the founder rate, locked in for life for early makers. And there is no platform fee on anything you sell, ever.
How do I reach a real person?
April reads everything. Use the contact page or reply to any email from us and a human, usually the founder, gets back to you.

Join us early.

Get one email the day Traders Till opens, plus founder pricing locked in for life. No card, no spam, no pressure.

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The Traders Till newsletter

Notes for people who sell what they make.

Practical tips on pricing, permits, and selling more at the stand. A couple times a month. Unsubscribe anytime.

Traders Till
Manage. Track. Grow. The operating system for home producers. Track inventory, recipes, costs, and per-venture profit.