Ingredients¶
The things your products are made from: bread flour, butter, dark chocolate. Nothing here is sold on its own. A product's Ingredients section is what takes them off the shelf.
Where: menu → Inventory → Ingredients. That opens the Stock screen already on its Ingredients facet: the things you track that you do not sell as they come.
The Ingredients facet¶
The Ingredients facet of the Stock screen shows every ingredient you track at this shop. The columns are the same: name, on hand, days left, and value.
A product you sell exactly as it arrives is not an ingredient and is not listed here. It is set up in its product's Stock section and shows on the Stock screen's Products facet.
One ingredient¶
Tap a row. The detail sheet shows the stats at the top, then lets you edit everything about it.
| Section | What it shows |
|---|---|
| On hand | What the system believes you hold |
| Days left | About how many days what you hold will last at the rate it has been going. |
| Avg cost | What one unit cost you, averaged over what you hold, before tax. |
| Last count | When a count last checked it, or Never |
| Edit fields | Name, category, units, cost, location |
| How you buy it | The outer and its price |
| Other outers | Any other way it arrives, each with its own barcode. Add outer for another. Each row has Sell this outer to make it a product. See Outers. |
| Where used | Every product and product option that takes it, and how much. Tap one to open it. |
| What if | Opens Margins to model what a cost change does to margins |
Three buttons: Log wastage (see Wastage), Adjust and Save.
Save keeps the changes on the sheet. Close it without saving and nothing changes.
Adding one¶
Add stock, the button floating at the bottom of any Stock facet. It asks: Do you sell this as it is?
- Yes opens the product editor. Use this for things you sell exactly as they arrive.
- No opens the ingredient form:
| Field | Put |
|---|---|
| Name | What you call it. Bread flour. |
| Category | Pick one already used, or add one |
| Counted in | Grams for anything weighed, millilitres for poured, each for whole items. |
| Show as | How it is displayed. Count flour in grams, show it as kg. |
| How you buy it | The outer and its price. See Outers. |
| Quantity on hand now | Optional. What you have today, recorded as its opening quantity. The unit sits on the field: it is your Show as unit when you set one, otherwise Counted in. |
| Storage location | Where it lives, so a count can cover one location at a time |
Create saves it. It is tracked at this shop from then on, so it shows on Stock as well. If the outer's barcode already belongs to something else, Create says which item has it and leaves the form as you typed it.
Good to know¶
- An outer with no size is refused. Say how much "25 kg bag" holds, or remove it. The size is what turns one scanned bag into 25,000 g.
- A barcode belongs to one stock item. Saving a code another item already has is refused, and you are told which item has it.
- An ingredient is the same at all your shops -- its name, unit and outers. What each shop holds, and where it keeps it, is that shop's own.