Recipes, production and labels
What each recipe really costs and what to charge; a pre-order's orders turned into batches and a shopping list; labels with ingredients and allergens.
These are in the Kitchen part of the menu: Recipes, Production and Labels.
Ingredients
Go to Recipes → Ingredients: what you pay, for what size. Start with about 30 common baking items and packaging, then fill in the Pack price from your receipts. When a price changes, every recipe reprices. A price over 90 days old is marked.
A recipe
- Tap New recipe.
- Add an ingredient for each line, with how much.
- Makes: how many, of what (shells, cookies, g of filling).
- Your time: setup, Hands-on per batch (min) and oven time.
- On the menu, this makes: link it to a menu part (like "White shell") so production plans scale it to the orders. Nothing on the menu? It's for costing only.
What it costs shows each ingredient and one unit's cost. What to charge suggests a price; type Your price ($) to see your margin and markup, and the price below which you lose money If an ingredient has no price yet, the cost says missing prices.
Costing holds what every recipe uses: your hourly rate, overhead (A monthly total spread over batches or An amount per batch), card fees and how prices round up. What products cost adds up one of each product from the recipes of what goes in it.
Production
Go to Production.
- Plan a bake: pick a pre-order and tap Make the plan. It counts what every order needs (with your extra % per part), in whole batches of each recipe: To make, a Shopping list with its total, and a checklist. Tap Made as each batch is done; the plan shows how far along it is. Print it for the kitchen.
- Make for the shelf: a batch for your always-open shop. Pick the Recipe, how much, and what Goes on the shelf as, with How many. When it's marked made, they're added to your shop's stock, once. Set Kept back for the broken or tasted ones. See An always-open shop.
Labels
Go to Labels. For each product: its Name on labels, the Net quantity ("12 macarons" or "250 g"), and On every label a statement if your province asks home kitchens for one. The ingredients and allergens (Contains, May contain) are worked out from your recipes, or tap Write the ingredients by hand instead. Choose English and French or one language.
To print: a whole pre-order from its page (Labels), one order from the order's page (Print labels for this order), or a product from the list. Pick the Label sheet (Avery 5163, Avery 5164, or one a page for a label printer) and How many. Order labels print one per box, with that box's flavours, the customer's name and the order code.
Labels are worked out from what you entered: check them against Canada's food labelling rules (CFIA) and your province's.
Recipes, production and labels come with some plans: the Plan page says which.