What is a recipe, and how do I set one up?
A recipe is the template for making a product: what one batch yields, and what goes into it.
A recipe is the saved template for making one of your products. Open Production, choose Set up recipe and pick the finished product.
You enter it the way it appears on your own paperwork, for a whole batch rather than a single unit:
• Batch size — how many finished units one batch yields.
• Materials — the products consumed to make that batch.
• Services — outside work paid for, such as stitching or plating.
• Wastage — the percentage you expect to lose making it.
Per-unit figures are worked out for you by dividing by the yield, so you never have to type fractions.
No costs are stored in the recipe. Material costs are read from your stock at the moment you estimate or make, so they are never out of date. Editing a recipe never changes a run you already made — each run keeps a record of what it actually consumed.
One recipe per finished product, and a recipe needs at least one material before you can make anything with it.
Still not sure? Ask it in the chat in the corner — no account needed, and a person answers whatever the assistant can't.
How do I move stock from one warehouse to another?
Inventory → Stock transfer. Pick From and To, list what is moving, and post it. A transfer posts no accounting entries.
How do license agreements and royalties work?
One licence agreement per licensor: the products covered, the royalty on each, and an optional fixed fee.
How do units and pack sizes work?
A unit is a name and a short form. The bigger pack — a box of 12 — is set on the product.
How do warehouses work?
Every company has one called Main. Extra warehouses are a paid feature, and pickers appear once you have more than one.