Ingredients, in the product editor¶
What one sale of this product takes off the shelf. A white sourdough loaf takes 500 g of bread flour; a ham and gruyère baguette takes a baguette, ham and gruyère. This is what gives a product its cost, and so its margin.
Where: menu → Sales → Products → a product → Ingredients. Only with inventory switched on for your shop.
The section's header sums it up: how many ingredients, the cost, and the margin.
A product with Track stock on reads Sold as it is. It is its own stock item, so there is nothing to list: each sale takes one off its own stock, which you manage under Stock. To make it from ingredients instead, turn Track stock off first.
Adding a line¶
Add ingredient, search, pick. Not there? New ingredient... creates one without leaving the product: Name, Base unit, how you buy it, and Category.
A new ingredient is saved at once. The line that uses it is saved with the product's Save.
| Field | Put |
|---|---|
| Qty, and its unit | How much one sale takes, in any unit the ingredient comes in: g, kg, or one of its outers |
| Yield | How much of what comes off the shelf ends up in the product. 200 g at 80 % takes 250 g off the shelf. Leave it at 100 if nothing is trimmed or lost. |
Under the lines, the result: Cost $2.80 excl. GST · Price $9.50 · Margin 66.1%. The margin is before tax; see Margins.
Options¶
A product's options can take ingredients too. Under Option ingredients, each option lists what choosing it adds -- the ham and gruyère baguette's extra cheese might read Adds 30 g Gruyère. Add to option... asks which option, then which ingredient.
A sale takes the product's own ingredients plus those of every option chosen.
This is also the way to sell one stock item in several sizes. See Outers for options against Sell this outer.
Good to know¶
- The cost follows the ingredients. Change what an ingredient costs and every product using it changes too. Margins shows them all at once.
- Nothing comes off until the order is fully paid. See Inventory for when each kind of sale moves stock.
- A product with more than one ingredient cannot be scanned in at a delivery or a count. The screen says so -- ... is made from 3 ingredients; receive those instead -- and you scan the ingredients.