Made for the mixing table
Every ingredient and every jar in the cost — and margins that stay current.
Packaging is a cost, not a rounding error
Enter oils, butters, fragrance, jars, lids, and labels once with pack sizes; every unit prices itself. Costs come off your receipts by the moving-average method, so a jar's true cost is always what you actually paid this order.
Oils and packaging move — watch your margins
Snap a supply receipt and Batchnook re-costs every product at once. Set a target margin and it flags the jars and bars that fell under it that day — the ones to re-price before your next market or restock.
Batches and orders, tracked
Log “poured 40 jars” and stock plus unit cost update at once. Record a market or wholesale order in a couple of taps; revenue and period COGS track themselves, never metered. (Your numbers only — labels and compliance stay yours.)
What a jar really earns you
Add up the ingredients and the packaging and see what's left. Try a typical jar of body butter, then run it on your own line.
Ingredients & packaging per jar
- Butters & carrier oils$1.35
- Fragrance / essential oil$0.55
- Jar, lid & label$1.10
- What one unit costs you$3
Typical 2026 numbers — a starting point, not a quote. In the app, these come off your receipts and update themselves.
Your margin at this price
79%
At or above your target — healthy.
Profit per unit
$11
Price to hit your target
$10
Want this to update itself?
Batchnook keeps this margin current from a receipt photo — no re-entering numbers. Leave your email and you're on the list.
This is the same margin Batchnook shows on every product — what's left after materials and packaging, as a share of price. Start free to run it on your own receipts, no card.
The long version of this arithmetic
By the time a butter or a balm ships, a lot of its cost is the jar, the lid, and the label. Adapting the playbook for soap and cosmetics covers costing a batch, the curing time that ties up cash, and the records a cosmetics maker is expected to keep. Before you commit a year of that history anywhere, what to look for in a maker costing tool is the checklist to run first.
When you are ready to sell it
A storefront for your line, at your own address
Costing tells you what a jar should earn. A Batchnook shop is where it earns it: your own address online, a QR code for the table, and every sale landing in the same books you priced it from.
See how a shop worksOur promises to makers
- One published price per tier, and 30 days’ notice before it changes.
- No order-line meters, ever.
- Your data walks free — export everything, always.
- Tax-ready numbers, never tax advice.
Free is real — no card, no countdown. See pricing for the whole table.