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KitchenSpring V164.7
Recipes & Product Costing · Welcome

Welcome to Recipe Costing

This section helps you understand what your products really cost to make, so you can price with confidence and see where your money is going.

What KitchenSpring will help you do

Getting Started

Know your true ingredient cost

Save the way you actually buy each ingredient and KitchenSpring works out the usable cost for your recipes.

Include packaging

Track bags, boxes, labels, containers and other packaging separately so you can see the full cost of the finished product.

Include labour

Add the time it takes to mix, portion, bake, decorate or package so labour does not disappear from your costing.

Build reusable recipes

Create base recipes and finished recipes, update them when prices change, and use actual yield to calculate a realistic cost per item.

You do not have to set everything up at once.
Start with the products you make most often. Once an ingredient, package or labour rate is saved, you can reuse it in future recipes instead of entering it again.

Legacy Data Import

Migration

This build contains a copy of previously imported ingredients, packaging and recipes. Importing copies them into KitchenSpring on this device and does not change the original source data.

Recommended setup order

6 steps
1
Add IngredientsEnter the package size and price exactly the way you buy each ingredient.
2
Add PackagingSave the packaging items you regularly use so they are ready when you cost a finished product.
3
Set LabourAdd the labour jobs and hourly values that should be included in the cost of making the product.
4
Create a RecipeBuild a base recipe or finished recipe using your saved ingredients.
5
Enter Actual YieldTell KitchenSpring what the batch actually produced so cost per item is based on real production.
6
Review and ImproveUse Recipe Lookup / Edit whenever ingredient prices, recipes, yields, packaging or labour change.