Costing a product: the recipe and the unit cost
How a recipe becomes a unit cost, including batch yield and packaging.
A product is a thing you sell. Its recipe lists the materials it takes and how much of each, and Batchnook costs it from what you actually paid.
Tell it the batch yield — how many units one run of the recipe makes — and the recipe cost divides down to a cost per unit. That per-unit figure is the number everything downstream uses: your margin, your reports, and the cost frozen onto every order.
Add one line per material, with a quantity and a unit. Where a line needs a conversion Batchnook cannot make honestly, it flags that line and asks, rather than guessing a number into your cost.
Packaging counts. A jar, a wick, a label and the box are materials like any other. Leave them out and your cost per unit reads lower than the truth.
The cost stays live. When a supply price moves, every product built on that material re-costs itself — that is what the ripple is showing you.
Do this in Batchnook, free to start
Snap the receipt. Watch every product’s real margin update.