About recipes

Learn how recipes help you determine the cost of creating a batch of your product and the best price to sell it at per piece.

In this article, we'll cover:

• Defining recipe
• Checking material stock levels
• Tracking material costs
• Setting the best price
• Printing a copy of your recipe
• FAQ

Defining recipe

A recipe is a list of materials used to create a batch of your product. You can:

• Check if you have enough materials to make a batch 
• Track how much producing a batch of your product will cost 
• Set the best price to earn a profit

By adding recipes in Craftybase, you can reuse these lists each time you create manufactures for your products.

Craftybase automatically calculates your total materials cost based on the current value of the materials in your recipe.

• 2 cups cake flour
• 1&1/2 cups granulated sugar
• 1 tbsp baking powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 7 large egg yolks
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 3/4 cup cold water
• 1 tbsp vanilla extract
• 7 large egg whites
• 1/2 tsp cream of tartar

Checking material stock levels

In Craftybase, Charlie opens the chiffon cake product page and adds their recipe. They see how much material they'd need to make this recipe and if they have enough on-hand material stock. With this information, they stay on top of their stock levels to sell chiffon cakes every week.

Tracking material costs

As Charlie adds materials to the chiffon cake recipe, Craftybase calculates the cost of each material. This helps track how much it will cost to make one chiffon cake based on the recipe's requirements and current material stock levels.   

Setting the best price

Taking the recipe's total manufacturing cost and the number of chiffon cakes they can sell, Charlie sees pricing guidance information in Craftybase. This helps them decide how much to sell one chiffon cake, so they earn profit with each sale.

Craftybase provides suggested minimum prices if they sell their chiffon cake wholesale, at a physical shop, on Etsy, and more.

Printing a copy of your recipe

To print a copy of your recipe:

1. Click and choose Recipes in the main menu.

   

2. Choose your recipe from the list.

3. Click Print on the top-right side of the recipes page.

   

FAQ

I have too many variations to create recipes!

If you have a large number of variations for your products, this can make the task of creating recipes quite time consuming. 

Firstly, it's important to decide if you require recipes at all: recipes are not an essential part of Craftybase as they are only used as a template to populate your manufactures with your material lists automatically. You can instead decide to create your recipe usage directly on your manufactures and ignore the recipe feature entirely. 

If you sell the same products over and over, recipes, however, may be a good idea to set up in the long run as it will speed up your workflow (and if you have a simple manufacturing process and make your products on the same day that your order is received, you might like to use auto-manufacturing to automate some of this also: How does the Auto Manufacture feature work?). An option for this approach is to create your recipes only as new combinations are sold, with the aim to eventually have the majority/most popular of your variations covered.