Write a recipe
- Go to Making → Recipes and press New recipe.
- Under What do you make?, find the product, for example Bread. It must keep stock: what you make goes into stock.
- Type how many one batch makes, for example 20.
- Under Add an ingredient, find each ingredient and type how much one batch uses. For an ingredient kept in kilograms you can choose g and type grams.
- If you like, type the labour and other costs (gas, electricity) of one batch.
- Press Save recipe. The list shows what one costs to make, its price and what you earn on each.
Ingredients are ordinary products that keep stock. Buy them as usual (Purchasing), so their cost is known and the recipe's cost is right.
Record a batch
The ingredients leave stock at their average cost and what you made goes into stock at what the batch really cost. Your stock value, your margins and your books stay right.
Short of an ingredient? The screen says so. You can still record the batch: its stock goes below zero until you record what you bought or count it.
- When you finish making something, go to Making → Batches and press Made a batch. It works on a phone in the kitchen.
- Tap what you made and type how many batches.
- If fewer came out than the recipe makes, type how many came out. Each one then costs a little more, so waste shows in the cost.
- Check what comes off stock and what the batch costs, then press Record batch.
Sold before the batch was recorded
The till keeps selling a made product even before its batch is recorded. Making → Batches then shows it in yellow with its stock below zero: press Record a batch so the stock and the cost are right.
Reverse a batch recorded by mistake
What the batch made comes off stock and the ingredients go back, at the batch's own costs. A batch whose products were already sold cannot be reversed.
- Open the batch under Making → Batches and press Reverse batch.
- Say why, for example recorded twice, and press Reverse it.