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What does each unit really cost you, and what do you need to buy?

Your recipe and what you pay per pack. Out comes the real cost per unit, the suggested price, how many you can make today and the shopping list in whole packs.

Computed in your browser · your recipe is kept on this device only

1 · Your recipe

Waste: what is lost weighing, baking or breaking. If unsure, 5%.

2 · Ingredients per batch and what you buy

“Pack brings” and “Pack costs” are the real pack you buy. “On hand” is what you have today, in grams.

Result

What does each unit really cost me?
—real cost per unit: ingredients + waste + packaging
—suggested price with your margin
—real margin at that price
See the maths
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How many can I make today with what I have?
—units possible today; the ingredient that runs out first decides
—what your inventory on hand is worth
What do I buy to make the ones I want, and what does it cost?
IngredientNeedHaveShortPacksCost
—total cost of the purchase, in whole packs

Several recipes sharing ingredients?

The full Excel template handles several recipes, the shared inventory and the purchase plan for all of them at once. It is in the templates library.

Go to the templates

In Tadpole recipes deduct inventory as you sell, cost updates with every purchase and it warns you when an ingredient hits its minimum. What is a batch here is your day to day there.

See inventory and recipes

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