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Cluster POS for Bakeries: Turn Your Sales Into a Daily Production Plan

· 3 min read

Loaves of bread on a glass bakery display counter

TL;DR

  • Cluster is a Montreal-based POS used by many Quebec bakeries, cafés and restaurants, certified for Quebec's sales recording requirements.
  • Your Cluster sales are a production plan waiting to happen: item by item, day by day.
  • Baikely connects to Cluster, imports your menu and sales automatically, and suggests how many of each product to bake each day.
  • Map POS buttons to products once, including several buttons for the same product.

What is Cluster POS?

Cluster is a point-of-sale provider based in Montreal, offering software, hardware and support for food businesses, with systems certified for Quebec's sales recording requirements. For a Quebec bakery, that certification is often the reason it is on the shortlist.

Why your Cluster data matters for production

Every sale through Cluster records the item and the time. Over a few weeks, that tells you:

  • How many of each product sell on each weekday.
  • When products run out, if staff record sell-outs.
  • How holidays and special days change demand, product by product.

That is exactly what you need to decide how much to bake tomorrow. Most bakeries leave it inside the till and plan from memory instead.

How Baikely works with Cluster

  1. Connect Cluster to Baikely. We set up the connection with you using your Cluster account details.
  2. Baikely imports your menu, and you map each Cluster button to a product. Several buttons can map to one product, for example "Croissant" and "Croissant x6", so sales add up correctly.
  3. Sales sync automatically: each morning, Baikely pulls the previous day's sales.
  4. Every day, Baikely suggests a quantity per product, from the same weekday over the last three weeks, adds estimated missed sales on days a product sold out, and plans special days from last year.
  5. Staff record sell-outs and leftovers in a few taps, which feeds the next suggestions.
The daily plan in Baikely, built from POS sales: last week's sales, sell-outs and leftovers next to each suggestion.

What changes for the bakery

  • No more one-quantity-for-every-day. Monday and Saturday each get their own plan.
  • Sell-outs become visible. "We sold everything" turns into "we sold out at 1:15 p.m.," and the next plan adjusts.
  • Leftovers drop because quantities follow demand. See bakery waste for what that is worth.

Getting started

If you use Cluster today, the setup is the connection and a one-time product mapping. Then the history you already have in Cluster starts working for you. Book a demo to see it with your own menu.

Frequently asked questions

Does Baikely replace Cluster?

No. Cluster stays your point of sale. Baikely reads the sales and plans production.

Do I need to change how staff use the till?

No. Staff keep ringing up sales as usual. The only addition is marking sell-outs and leftovers in Baikely.

What if my menu has several buttons for one product?

Map them all to the same product in Baikely, and their sales are combined for planning.