Archive of Category: Seller How To

How to Use Nosh Days to Facilitate Farmers Market Pick-Up Orders

Selling at farmers markets is great. It’s fun to meet customers face-to-face and be immersed in the energy of farm fresh produce and home baked foods. One of the issues many bakers face however is...

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Setting Up Your Seller’s Profile

Congratulations on your decision to become a seller on Cottage Nosh. We know that you’ll love our platform and that it will help take your home food business to the next level. This series of...

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Guide to Custom URLs on Cottage Nosh

Custom URLs, also called “permalinks” are an easy way to quickly generate a personalized web address for your store on the Cottage Nosh marketplace. You’ll find the field to enter your custom URL on the...

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Joining the Junior Baker Program

Cottage Nosh is delighted to welcome Junior Bakers to our platform. Junior Bakers are committed bakers between the ages of 13 and 18 who want to gain experience operating a home food business. In order...

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Setting Up a Nosh Day

Setting up a Nosh Day is easy!  Just follow the steps detailed below.  If you need more help you can watch the “setting up a Nosh Day” video here, or reach out to our Baker...

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Adding a Listing

Adding listings to your profile is how you show customers what products you have available.  Adding listings is a quick and easy process… just follow the steps outlined below!  If you need more help you...

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Setting Up Your Baker’s Shop

Your Baker’s Shop works like a traditional store.  You pick which days you are open for pickups and/or which days you will be offering deliveries.  When you set up your shop you are committing to...

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Nosh Days vs. Bakers’ Shops

Cottage Nosh offers cottage food operators two ways to sell their products: Nosh Days and Bakers’ Shops.  You can use one or both of these tools to help your home food business grow and thrive. ...

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Creating Compliant Labels

Virtually all states require Cottage Food Operators to label their products.  Each state has slightly different requirements so it’s important to understand your state’s cottage food labeling laws.  To make things easier we have created...

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Becoming a Cottage Food Operator in New York

In order to operate a Cottage Food business in New York, you must register with the state as a Home Processor. The registration process is very easy.  All you have to do is fill out...

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