Blog - Tips for Bakers

Practical tips and step-by-step guides to help artisan bakers optimize their stock management, profit margins, team organization and digital bakery tools.

Articles

How to Reduce Stock Loss by 15% in Your Bakery

Discover the main causes of stock loss in bakeries and proven methods to cut waste by 15% or more.

5 Pricing Mistakes Every Artisan Bakery Makes

Pricing mistakes are costly. Discover the 5 most common traps and how to avoid them to protect your margins.

Guide: How to Calculate the Real Margins on Your Products

Learn how to calculate the gross and net margin on each bakery product, with a worked example using a traditional baguette.

Why Going from Notebook to Digital Changes Everything

The paper notebook has its limits. Discover why and how going digital transforms the daily life of artisan bakers.

How to Manage a Team of 10 with Clear Roles

Structuring your bakery team's roles is essential to avoid duplication, oversights and tension. Here's how to do it.

Fournil vs Toporder — Which Bakery Software for Your Business in 2026?

Toporder and Fournil both target French artisan bakeries, but their approach, pricing and offline capability differ significantly. Here is an honest comparison.

Fournil vs Tactill — Bakery POS Comparison 2026

Tactill is a popular iPad POS used by many French artisan bakeries. How does it compare to Fournil on features, pricing and offline capability?

Top 5 Bakery Management Software in 2026

Fournil, Toporder, Tactill, Crisalid or LEO2 — which bakery management software is right for your business? An honest, independent comparison for French artisan bakers.

Case studies

Boulangerie Meva, Antananarivo: -30% Stock Loss in 3 Months

Discover how this Malagasy artisan bakery cut its stock loss from 25% to 10% by adopting Fournil.

Boulangerie du Vieux Lyon: First Real Holiday in 3 Years

How a Lyon baker cut his accounting time by 8x and finally managed to take a holiday thanks to Fournil.