About SellFood.com

Where home cooks become entrepreneurs

SellFood.com is a marketplace and toolkit for home bakers, jam makers, hot sauce bottlers, and every small-batch food maker in between. You get a shop, a way to get paid, the rules for your state, and the books to run it.

Why we built it

Cottage food is a real business. The tools weren't built for it.

Every state writes its own cottage food rules: what you can sell, where you can sell it, what the label has to say, and how much you can earn before the rules change. General marketplaces don't know any of that. Generic bookkeeping apps don't know what a market booth fee is or what a jar of jam costs to make.

So home food makers end up stitching it together: a storefront from one place, payments from another, a spreadsheet for sales, a shoebox for receipts, and a search for their state's rules every time something changes.

SellFood.com puts it in one place, built around cottage food. You list your products, buyers find them, and you get paid through your own Stripe account. The state rules and the business tools sit right next to your shop.

What we believe

Four things we won't compromise on

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It's your business

You sell through your own Stripe account, so the customer relationship and the money are yours. SellFood.com takes a platform fee on each sale. We don't sit between you and your buyers.

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Guidance, not gatekeeping

We show you what your state's rules say, and you confirm you're allowed to sell. You know your permits and your kitchen; we make the rules easy to find.

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Free to start selling

Everything you need to sell is on the free plan: unlimited listings and your own storefront link. Artisan Pro adds the accounting and tax tools for when the business grows.

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Straight answers

Fees are on the pricing page, not buried in fine print. When something is an estimate, we say so. When something is coming soon, we label it that way.

Who's behind it

Independent, and built by one person

Michael Cusano

Founder · SellFood, LLC · Virginia

SellFood.com is an independent company. No outside investors set the fees or the roadmap, so every decision gets made with small-batch sellers in mind.

Questions, ideas, or something we got wrong about your state? Email hello@sellfood.com.

Your kitchen, your business

Open your shop for free

List your products, look up your state's rules, and get paid through your own Stripe account. Upgrade only when you want the business tools.