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Delitia Studio

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Delitia Studio is a specialized order and pricing assistant built for home cake businesses. Bakers configure their ingredient costs, recipes, and pricing rules once; the app then generates accurate quotes, manages a calendar of orders, and produces shopping lists for upcoming bakes. The interface emphasizes warmth and craft — immersive case-study layouts, smooth motion, and a CMS-driven content layer so the studio can keep things fresh without a developer.

Version 1.0 · Last updated May 4, 2026

🧁 Welcome to Delitia Studio

Delitia Studio is a one-stop pricing and order assistant for home cake businesses. Whether you're costing out a new flavor or tracking tomorrow's deliveries, the app replaces mental math and scattered notes with a photo-driven, tap-to-pick interface — built for solo bakers working with flour-covered hands.

What You Can Do

  • Track Ingredients — Log purchase costs and let the app calculate cost-per-use-unit automatically
  • Build Components — Save reusable bases, fillings, and frostings with full recipe costing
  • Configure Products — Combine components into cakes, cupcakes, and cookies with per-size pricing
  • Manage Customers — Keep contact info, addresses, and full order history per client
  • Run Orders End-to-End — From customer pick to delivery, with live cost and profit on every screen
  • See Profit in Real Time — Every product card shows cost, price, and margin as you build
  • Review Reports — Monthly revenue, profit, top products, and top customers at a glance
  • Use It Anywhere — Mobile-first PWA that also works on tablet and desktop

🚪 Getting Started

First Launch

  1. 1Open Delitia Studio in your browser
  2. 2Tap the install prompt to add it to your home screen (optional but recommended)
  3. 3The app launches with an empty dashboard — your data lives on a cloud database
  4. 4Tap Catalog to add your first ingredient

Your Home Dashboard

When you open Delitia Studio, you'll see:
  • Greeting & stats row at the top with today's revenue, profit, and order count
  • Today's bakes — orders due today
  • Upcoming — the next few days of orders
  • + New Order floating button (bottom right)
  • Bottom navigation with Home, Catalog, Customers, and More

Tip

Tap the stats row to toggle between Today and This Week views.

🥚 Managing Ingredients

Ingredients are the foundation — every recipe and price ultimately rolls up from here.

Add a New Ingredient

  1. 1Tap CatalogIngredients tab
  2. 2Tap + Add ingredient
  3. 3Fill in name, photo, purchase unit, purchase cost, use unit, and the conversion factor (how many use-units fit in one purchase unit)
  4. 4The app auto-calculates cost-per-use-unit
  5. 5Tap Save

Update Prices

  1. 1Open the Ingredients tab
  2. 2Tap any ingredient's price field to edit inline
  3. 3Enter the new purchase cost and save
  4. 4Delitia Studio automatically recalculates every component and product that uses it

Important

A banner appears at the top of the list when ingredients haven't been updated in 30+ days — keeping prices fresh keeps your profit numbers honest.

🎂 Building Components

Components are reusable recipes — bases, fillings, and frostings — that you'll mix and match across products.

Create a Component

  1. 1Tap CatalogComponents
  2. 2Pick a sub-tab: Bases, Fillings, or Frostings
  3. 3Tap + Add
  4. 4Enter name, photo, and which product types it works with (Cake / Cupcake / Cookie)
  5. 5Add ingredients with quantities — the app sums the total cost as you go
  6. 6Set the base yield (e.g. "makes 1 cake" or "makes 12 cupcakes")
  7. 7Tap Save

🛍️ Configuring Products

Products are saved combos you'll reach for again and again — like "Classic Vanilla Birthday Cake."

Create a Product

  1. 1Tap CatalogProducts tab
  2. 2Tap the + new product button
  3. 3Upload a photo and enter a name
  4. 4Pick a type: Cake, Cupcake, or Cookie
  5. 5Pick a base, filling (optional), and frosting
  6. 6Choose available sizes (10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 cm for cakes)
  7. 7Optionally enter a suggested price
  8. 8Watch the live cost preview at the bottom update as you build
  9. 9Tap Save

Tip

While building an order, you can tap Save as combo to turn any one-off configuration into a reusable Product.

📋 Creating an Order

This is the core flow — from customer to confirmation in three steps.

Step 1 — Choose a Customer

  1. 1Tap the + New Order floating button on the home screen
  2. 2Search for an existing customer, or tap a recent photo-chip
  3. 3Tap + New customer if it's their first order — enter name, phone, and address
  4. 4Tap Continue

Step 2 — Build the Items

  1. 1Tap + Add item
  2. 2Pick the product type (Cake / Cupcake / Cookie)
  3. 3Either swipe through saved Products or tap Build new from scratch
  4. 4Tap each card — Base, Filling, Frosting — and swipe to pick options in the bottom sheet
  5. 5Set the size (cakes) or quantity (cupcakes / cookies)
  6. 6Tap any extras chips that apply (custom message, etc.)
  7. 7Enter your price and watch the profit update live (green = profit, red = loss)
  8. 8Tap Add to order
  9. 9Repeat for additional items, then tap Continue

Tip

Swipe left on an item card to delete it, or tap to edit.

Step 3 — Confirm Details

  1. 1Pick the due date and time
  2. 2Choose Pickup or Delivery (delivery pre-fills the customer's address)
  3. 3Add a delivery fee, overhead items, notes, or a reference photo
  4. 4Review the final summary: total cost, total price, and total profit
  5. 5Tap Confirm Order — done

🔄 Tracking Order Lifecycle

Every order moves through a clear timeline: Ordered → Baking → Ready → Delivered → Paid.

Advance an Order

  1. 1Tap an order card from the dashboard or the orders list
  2. 2Tap the next stage in the timeline (e.g. Ordered → Baking)
  3. 3A toast confirms the update

Mark as Paid

  1. 1Open the order
  2. 2Toggle the Paid / Unpaid pill
  3. 3Delitia Studio freezes the cost snapshot — the figures stay locked for accurate historical reporting even if ingredient prices change later

Important

Editing a paid order shows a warning that changes won't affect historical reports. Your monthly profit numbers stay trustworthy.

Quick Actions

  • Long-press an order card for Mark Paid, Message Customer, Edit
  • Swipe right on an order card to quick-advance the status

👥 Managing Customers

Add a Customer

  1. 1Tap Customers in the bottom nav
  2. 2Tap + New
  3. 3Enter name, phone, address, and an optional photo
  4. 4Save

View Customer History

  1. 1Tap any customer in the list
  2. 2See their avatar, contact info (tap phone to call, address to map), notes, and full order timeline
  3. 3Tap any past order to jump to its detail screen

Tip

Use the alphabetical index on the right edge of the Customers list for fast navigation.

📊 Reports & Insights

View Monthly Reports

  1. 1Tap MoreReports
  2. 2The current month is shown by default — use the month picker to scroll back
  3. 3Review total revenue & profit, orders count, top product, top customer, revenue & profit by day, and product mix

Export to CSV

  1. 1Open Reports
  2. 2Tap Export CSV at the bottom
  3. 3Save the file to your device or share it via the OS share sheet

⚙️ Settings & Backup

Backup Your Data

Delitia Studio stores everything in the cloud — backups give you peace of mind.
  1. 1Tap MoreSettings
  2. 2Tap Backup / Export data
  3. 3Save the backup file to your device or cloud storage via the share sheet

Configure Defaults

In Settings you can set:
  • Default overhead bundle (boxes, ribbon, etc.)
  • Default delivery fee
  • Default cake sizes shown when building products
  • Your profile name and photo

📱 Using Delitia Studio on Mobile

Delitia Studio is mobile-first — every screen is built for thumbs and one-handed use.

Quick Tips

  • Photo-driven: tap product, component, and ingredient photos instead of typing names
  • Bottom sheets: swipe horizontally inside pickers to flip through options
  • Steppers: use and + for cupcake and cookie quantities
  • Floating action button: + New Order is always one tap away from the home screen
  • Install as PWA: add to home screen for a full-screen, offline-capable experience

Tip

Pro tip: add Delitia Studio to your home screen so it opens like a native app — perfect when your hands are floury.

📋 Quick Reference

Bottom Navigation

  • Home → dashboard, today's bakes, stats
  • Catalog → Ingredients, Components, Products, Overhead
  • Customers → contact list with full order history
  • More → Reports, Settings, Backup

Order Flow

  1. 1Customer → search or create
  2. 2Items → build products with live cost & profit
  3. 3Details → date, delivery, overhead, confirm

Tips

  • Keep ingredient prices fresh — the 30-day banner is your friend
  • Save frequently used configurations as Products via Save as combo
  • Mark orders Paid to lock historical cost data
  • Back up regularly — your data is yours to keep

Thank you for using Delitia Studio

Smart pricing for your sweet business.

Version 1.0 · Last updated May 4, 2026