In order to illustrate the pricing calculations later, I'll I'll leave the starting quantity as 0 as I'm planning to add an expense to account for this material stock later. I open the Add Material window then click the Add New link - this brings up the Add New Material form.Īs this is covered in the Material tutorial in detail, I'll stick to entering in the bare minimum details here: I'll add the name as Lavender oil and set the unit of measurement to ml. This will take you to a form where you can enter the new material's details, then return to the Add Material step.įor my example, I don't yet have Lavender oil in my Materials list. Instead of typing into the search box in the steps above, click the Add New link that appears to the right of the search box. If you don't yet have this Material in your list, you can add it on this form without leaving the page.
You can add as many materials as you like to your recipe here - just keep repeating the steps above until you have built your complete ingredients list. My Olive Oil material is configured as grams so I will just type 164 in the quantity box and then click the Save Material button. I type "Oli" and then choose my material from the list. Choose the one you are after - you'll notice that this will change the form a little: you'll now see the material's quantity type appear next to the quantity box and the Save Material button will appear.įor my example, I already have Olive Oil in my Materials list. The system will then search your lists and return you a set of results to choose from. Adding an existing Material is easy: after clicking on the Add Material button, just type the first couple of characters of your material name in the search box. You'll find this page by firstly navigating to your product page and then clicking on the + button - this should appear next to the heading called "Recipe"Ĥa. To create the Recipe, we will be assuming that my Lavender Soap product already exists, so the first thing to do is to navigate to the Add Recipe page.ġa. To track this in Craftybase, what we will be doing is adding each of the ingredients above into the system as a Material, and then we will link these Materials along with the quantity used to the Recipe. You can use any combination of unit measurements for your recipe - this example uses grams, ml and teaspoon measures. My typical ingredients list is as follows: Quantity The best way to explain how Recipes work is to use a simple example.įor this example, I am a soapmaker and one of my products is a bar of Lavender Soap. If you make one-of-a-kind pieces and don't require the pricing guidance feature, you can skip this tutorial and move directly to manufactures. They are not required as materials can be configured directly on manufactures, but can be useful in situations where the same material lists are used to produce products again and again. Recipes are used to calculate your estimated batch manufacture cost and provide pricing guidance for your products. Recipes are reusable lists (or templates) of the materials you use in order to create your product. This tutorial should take approximately 25 mins to complete. ✔ See if you have the materials available to manufacture a product ✔ Find out how much it costs you to make your products
Once you've completed this tutorial, you'll be able to:
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