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A recipe describes the ingredients and quantities used to make a serving. Your storefront product is a separate record with its own selling price and customer choices. You build it by adding lines — each line is {Item, quantity} — and the app sums the line costs to give you per-cup COGS. For Performance, link recipes to saved products and options. This does not change storefront selling prices.

Create a recipe

  1. Open Products & Pricing → Recipes and create a recipe.
  2. Enter its name.
  3. Add the ingredients and packaging used for one serving, with their quantities.
  4. Review the ingredient cost and save the recipe.
  5. Link the recipe to your product in Costing.
To start from a recipe you already have, click Copy from… under the materials, pick the recipe and click Copy. Its materials and quantities replace the ones in the form; nothing is saved until you click Create Recipe (or Update Recipe). Set the selling price under Online Store → Products. Recipe creation and editing focus on ingredients and quantities; they do not ask for a selling price or target food-cost percentage.

Previously saved pricing values

Older recipes may still have a target food-cost percentage or menu price saved. Editing ingredients does not clear them. These values are separate from your storefront product prices and are no longer editable in the recipe form.

Example: Hot Coffee Latte

Using the items defined on the Items page, the Hot Coffee Latte recipe has three lines:

Recipes list

The Recipes index lists each recipe with its cost per serving. Sort by either column, and use the search box to filter by recipe name.

What’s next

With your top recipes built and per-cup COGS computed, head to Performance to record your fixed costs (rent, wages, utilities) and see whether each month actually made money.