Cake website design that knows how much notice you need

Your pages, the features on them, the final price and the timescale, in writing before you pay a deposit. Hosting, care and any ongoing SEO are listed separately, so you can see what is one-off and what is monthly. On the Business package the first year of hosting and care is included.

Yes, if you are selling. In England, Wales and Northern Ireland the Food Standards Agency says anyone who sells food registers with their local authority, including businesses run from home and those selling only online through a website or social media, and that you must register at least 28 days before you start trading. Registration is free and cannot be refused, and for a business run from home, council officers arrange an inspection there. In Scotland, Food Standards Scotland says all food businesses must register with their council's environmental health service at least 28 days before opening. None of this guidance asks for a registration number on the website.

For a cake ordered online or by phone, food information law across the UK requires the allergen information to be available before the purchase is concluded and again when the cake is delivered, at no extra cost to the customer. It covers the 14 allergens the law lists, from cereals containing gluten, eggs and milk to peanuts, tree nuts, sesame and soya. In England, Wales and Northern Ireland the FSA accepts the information in writing or by word of mouth at either stage, and as best practice recommends writing at both: the list on each cake's page, then a sticker or card with the cake. Food Standards Scotland's guidance says it must be available before purchase.

Not to a cake made to order, in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The FSA's guidance for bakers says food made to order, or put into packaging at the customer's request, is not prepacked for direct sale, and that the full ingredients label Natasha's Law brought in does not apply to food sold online or by phone. It does apply to cakes you box before anyone chooses them and sell from the same premises, such as leftover cupcakes packed up for sale. A made-to-order cake still needs its allergen information at both stages. Scotland has the same labelling duty, so check with Food Standards Scotland how it treats anything you sell over a counter.

In England, Wales and Northern Ireland a home cake business supplying the public is rated like any other, and the ratings website shows only the first part of the postcode for a home address. The sticker must be displayed at the premises in Wales and Northern Ireland; in England that is voluntary. Online, the FSA recommends putting the rating where it is seen before an order is placed, using its own image, or its code, which updates itself when your rating changes. Its rules allow only your current rating to be shown. Before your first inspection it offers an 'awaiting inspection' image, or 'rating awaited' in Wales. The demo shows a sample rating on its home, cakes and order pages, labelled as a sample. Scotland's Food Hygiene Information Scheme gives a Pass or Improvement Required result, and showing it is your choice.

The 14-day right to cancel that normally comes with orders made at a distance does not apply to goods made to the customer's specifications or clearly personalised, or to goods liable to deteriorate rapidly. A cake made to the customer's design or with their name on it is the clear case. These rules apply across the UK, and where there is no right to cancel the customer must be told before the contract, so it belongs on the order page; the demo states it at the final check and links to sample ordering terms. Deposits are a separate test of fairness. The CMA's guidance is that a deposit or prepayment you keep must take into account what you will actually lose, that making prepayments non-refundable whatever the reason for cancelling is unlikely to be fair, and that you may keep a deposit in full if it is no more than a small percentage of the price and your terms say exactly when it stops being refundable.

Yes, if it is true in the way the law means. Under UK food law, 'gluten-free' may be used only where the food as sold contains no more than 20 mg/kg of gluten, and the FSA says the rule covers food that is not prepacked, so made-to-order cakes too; it advises against 'no gluten containing ingredients' wording. A free-from claim is a guarantee, so it should not sit beside a may-contain warning for the same allergen; 'gluten-free' is the exception, and can sit beside 'may contain wheat', while 'vegan' is not a free-from claim and can carry one. The ASA's advice on 'organic' is that it needs suppliers that are registered with an approved certification body and regularly inspected. If your kitchen handles all 14 allergens, saying so plainly, as the demo's cakes page does, avoids a promise you cannot keep.