A cake is baked in the morning and sold in the afternoon. A recipe on the menu item cannot tell you how many are on the shelf, what the batch cost, or what the baker is owed for it. The Production module can: the ingredients leave your stock when the batch is made, the finished goods sit on their own shelf until the till sells them, and every sale knows what that unit cost to make.
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Add the item, then write its recipe from the ingredients already in your Inventory — the same categories, the same units. Say how many one recipe makes, and a run of any size is scaled from it.
Press Run Production and say how many. The ingredients are deducted from Inventory in one go, and the finished goods arrive in Production — each run numbered, dated and costed.
The same cake as 1 lb, 2 lb and 3 lb: one item, with a recipe, a stock count, a cost and a sale price for each. At the till the cashier is asked which one, and that one comes off its own shelf.
Add a contractor under Employees and choose how they are paid: per piece, per hour, per day or per month. Put everybody who worked on a run onto it, each with their own pieces or hours, and what each of them earned goes on their own ledger.
What a unit costs is its ingredients plus the labour that went into it, averaged across your runs. Set the sale price beside it and the profit on each one is on the screen before you sell a single cake.
Put an item on sale and it appears on the till — or have it go on sale by itself the moment a run is finished. Each one sold comes off the finished stock, not off the recipe again, and the sale records the price it went for beside what it cost.
Runs, units made, ingredient cost, labour cost, units sold, revenue, cost of what was sold and profit — item by item and contractor by contractor, with what each contractor is still owed.
No. The ingredients leave Inventory once, when the batch is made. Selling the finished item takes it off the Production stock and touches no ingredient at all.
Yes. Add each contractor to the run with their own pieces, hours or days. Each is paid on their own terms and the cost of the run includes all of them.
Every sale at the till records the price the unit sold for beside what it cost to make — ingredients and labour. Profit is the difference, summed over what was actually sold, so it is a figure from your sales and not an estimate.
The sale still goes through. The finished stock goes negative, which is the sign that a production run has not been recorded — the till is never stopped by a count.
It is part of the plans that list it on the pricing page. On a plan that does not include it, it can be added on top for a monthly charge where that plan offers it — without changing plan.
