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Outcome: the month’s ingredient cost includes what you lost, not just what you sold. Open Performance → Waste. Use the ‹ › buttons to move between months. You need a Daily report time first; if you have not chosen one, the page links to Performance settings.

What counts as waste

Each entry has one reason: Free drinks from a full loyalty card are not waste. Redeem them on the POS and they show as Loyalty rewards, in their own card on this page, outside your waste total. See Redeem a reward at the POS. Each entry counts at cost, what the ingredients cost you, never the selling price.

Log waste

  1. Choose Add waste.
  2. Under What was lost, search for a menu item or a material. Search matches any part of the name, so “croiss” finds Croissant.
  3. For a menu item with required choices, such as Hot or Iced, pick one in each group.
  4. Enter the quantity. A menu item starts at 1 and takes whole numbers. A material takes an amount in its own unit, such as 30 g of beans or 200 ml of milk.
  5. Check the Day. It starts on today’s business day; pick an earlier day for a loss you found late. Before your Daily report time, today’s business day is still yesterday, and a note under Day says so.
  6. Choose a reason. Other needs a short note.
  7. Choose Save, or Save and add another to log the next loss with the same day and reason.
Example: at close, 4 croissants are left over. Choose Croissant, quantity 4, reason Unsold at close. If one croissant costs you RM 2.50, the entry shows RM 10.00.

Review the month

The top card shows Waste at cost for the month and a total for each reason, largest first. Below it, By day lists each day’s entries with their cost. The same total appears in your month’s ingredient cost on Overview, Monthly review and Sales activity, as waste and losses. Choose that line on Overview to come back here.

No cost yet

An entry shows No cost yet when the item has no ingredient cost. Until it has one, the month’s ingredient cost is not final, and Overview lists the entry under what needs attention; choose it to land on that entry here. Fix it either way:
  • Cost this item opens the item’s costing. Once saved, entries from this month (and last month, during the first 7 days of a new month) pick up the cost by themselves.
  • Enter cost lets you type what one item or one unit of material cost you, such as RM 2.50 per croissant. This cost stays with the entry; you can change it later from ⋯ → Change cost.

Edit or delete an entry

Each entry has a ⋯ menu:
  • Edit changes what was lost, the quantity, day, reason or note. The entry is valued again at the cost in force when it was first logged.
  • Delete removes the entry after you confirm. It stops counting in ingredient cost.
A material you later delete from your materials list keeps its name and unit on past entries.

Compare with what you bought

Logged waste also feeds Bought vs Used, which compares your confirmed ingredient invoices with what sales recipes and the waste log account for.