Cookies, spit cake, bread - a product sold by weight

When this scenario applies

The customer says “300 grams, please” or “half a kilo”. Shortbread cookies, gingerbread, spit cake, bread, meringues by weight. There are no pieces or slices - there is a kilogram. In the example we make butter shortbread cookies; one recipe yields 2.4 kg.

A recipe in “Kilograms” mode

Select the “Kilograms” tile in the “The batch yields” section. The number of pieces field disappears - only “Batch weight (kg)” remains, meaning how much the finished bake weighs after baking. The pricing method is “Margin %” or “Price per kg”.

1. Recipes, New. Name “Butter cookies”, category Small bakes, margin 45%.
2. Select the “Kilograms” tile. Batch weight: 2.4.
3. Ingredients for the whole batch: flour 1300 g, butter 650 g, powdered sugar 400 g, eggs 3 pcs, vanilla extract 5 g.
4. A 3.5 kW oven for 0.5 h, packaging 3 PLN. Create the recipe.

What the recipe card shows

For a bake sold by weight, the pricing has one extra line: “Total cost / kg”. In the example the ingredients cost 42.89 PLN, and the total cost of the whole batch with the 40% fixed cost markup, the oven's electricity (2.10 PLN) and packaging is 65.14 PLN, which is 27.14 PLN per kilogram (65.14 PLN ÷ 2.4 kg). The price of the whole batch with a 45% margin is 65.14 PLN ÷ 0.55 = 118.44 PLN, which is 49.35 PLN per kilogram, and the margin on the whole batch is 53.29 PLN - 45% of the price. There is no price per piece block and no tray tiles - they make no sense with kilograms.

• Food cost / kg 16.92 PLN - the raw materials alone per kilogram (calculated from the ingredient weight, 2.535 kg)
• Total cost / kg 27.14 PLN - compare this with your price per kg
• Price per kg 49.35 PLN - a suggestion from the target margin, calculated from the weight after baking
• Margin per batch 53.29 PLN - from the whole 2.4 kg

A product sold by weight and the “1 kg” variant

The “Butter cookies” product with a price of 65 PLN (per kilogram), the recipe and the “Sold by weight” checkbox ticked. On the product card, add a “1 kg” variant: fixed price 65 PLN gross, VAT 8%, unit kg. In the variant's recipe, enter how many kilograms of the batch the variant uses: 1 of 2.4 kg. The variant cost comes out at 27.14 PLN net - that is what the kilogram you sell for 65 PLN gross costs you.

1. Products, Add: name, category Small bakes, price 65, recipe “Butter cookies”, leave “Sold by weight” ticked.
2. Product card, Add variant: label “1 kg”, price 65, VAT 8%, Gross, unit kg.
3. Add the “Butter cookies” recipe and enter 1 in the “use … kg of 2.4 kg” field.
4. Tick “Set as the product's default variant”, save.

Pitfalls

Two things specific to selling by weight.

• An empty “Batch weight” field = price per kg from the ingredient weight, without the baking loss. Always enter the real weight after baking.
• Older recipes may have a saved price per kg calculated from the sum of the ingredients. The recipe card then shows the price from the current costs, and the “Recalculate” button saves it.