Sellable products

Products lists the finished goods your production runs booked, ready to sell: what is on hand, the unit cost, the last batch, the soonest expiry. This module is part of the larger plans.

Formats (presentations)

A recipe can sell in up to 8 formats. A 250 ml jar and a 1 L pouch are two presentations of the same sauce, each with its own stock count, packaging, and unit cost. Click Add presentation to create one: a format noun (jar, pouch, tube), an optional fill size and unit, and what happens when you produce it:

• Sell all of it: every batch is packaged and sold.
• Fill some, keep the rest as bulk: at completion you say how many you filled; the rest books as bulk in the recipe’s unit, ready for another recipe.

When you plan a production run, pick which format the batch produces under Produce as. Rename a format or adjust its fill later from More actions (Rename, Edit format).

Unit cost and margin

The Unit cost card splits the cost of one unit into Recipe (the batch cost per unit, from real ingredient costs) and Packaging (jar, lid, label counted per unit). Cost & margin adds the average sold price from your recorded sales and shows the margin per unit.

Packaging per format

Each format carries its packaging set: which items one unit consumes and how many (1 jar, 1 lid, 2 labels). Runs consume packaging in whole packages, and low or out-of-stock items are flagged on the product page. Manage the items themselves under packaging.

Recording what leaves

Stock enters through completed runs. It leaves through Record what leaves:

• Sold: a quantity plus an optional total price received. Sold prices feed the margin line.
• Spoiled: what you had to throw out.
• Sample or gift: what you gave away.
• Count correction: a negative number lowers the count, a positive one raises it.

Every movement lands in the product’s ledger with date, quantity, balance, lot, and batch.

Creating a product before its first run

You do not need a completed batch to set a product up. New product creates the line from a recipe, so you can add formats and packaging first and have the numbers ready when the first real batch books. To bundle several products into a gift set, see assemblies.