Logging a batch
Logging a run takes materials down and puts finished units on your shelf.
A batch is one run of a recipe — you made 40. Logging it takes the materials down and puts finished units on your shelf.
Start from the product or from the quick-create button, set units made on the stepper, and read the consumption preview: each material with what this run takes out of it. Confirm, and Batchnook tells you what the run cost you for one unit, frozen at that moment.
Frozen is the point. A batch keeps the costs that were true the day you made it, so a supply price that moves next month does not quietly rewrite what last month cost you.
Log the units you actually got, not the units the recipe promised. If a run meant to make 40 came out at 36, log 36 — the four you lost are part of what the 36 cost, and that is the number your price has to carry.
Short on a material? Batchnook warns you and still records the batch. A run that already happened is a fact, and a screen that refused it would only tempt you to write it down wrong.
Do this in Batchnook, free to start
Snap the receipt. Watch every product’s real margin update.