Cheesecake, apple pie, brownies - sheet cakes and slices

When this scenario applies

You bake on a tray and sell slices, quarters, halves or whole trays: cheesecake, apple pie, poppy seed cake, brownies, yeast cake with crumble. This is the default recipe mode in BakePilot, so the “Trays” tile is selected right away. If you work in this mode, the product list shows the columns Whole tray, Half tray, Quarter (1/4), 3/4 tray and Avg. / piece.

A recipe in “Trays” mode

Two fields decide the prices: “Tray weight (kg)”, meaning how much the finished product from one tray weighs, and “Portions per batch”, meaning how many slices you cut the tray into. You enter the ingredients for one tray.

1. Recipes, New. Name “New York cheesecake”, category Cake, target margin for example 58%.
2. Leave the “Trays” tile. Tray weight: 3.4. Portions per batch: 20.
3. Ingredients for one tray, equipment and additional costs as usual. Create the recipe.

Tray pricing: the 1/4, 1/2, 3/4 and whole tiles

The recipe card and the product card show four tiles with the price of a quarter, a half, three quarters and the whole tray, plus the “Price per piece (20 portions)” line. The product card also has the “Retail profit per variant” block - how much you keep on each fraction after deducting the proportional part of the total cost.

• In the “Gross” view (in the screenshot): whole tray 309.27 PLN, half tray 154.63 PLN, quarter (1/4) 77.32 PLN - this is the price of 286.36 PLN net from a 58% margin on a total cost of 120.27 PLN (120.27 PLN ÷ 0.42) plus 8% VAT
• Price per piece (20 portions) 15.47 PLN gross - the price of one slice
• Retail profit per variant: 1/4 is 41.52 PLN, 1/2 is 83.05 PLN, the whole tray 166.09 PLN - profit is always net, also in the “Gross” view
• Food cost % 42.0% - the share of the total cost in the price of the whole tray

B2B simulator - how much you earn with a discount

Do you sell to cafes and shops at a discount? On the product card in Trays mode there is the “B2B simulator - how much do you earn?”. With the slider or the field next to it you set a discount from 0 to 50%, and the “B2B discount comparison - profit on the whole” table shows the B2B price, profit and percentage margin for the whole tray: retail (0%) and discounts from 5 to 30%. Under the table there is the footer “Net total production cost, the profit in the table is based on it” - in the “Gross” view the prices in the table include VAT, but profit and margin are calculated from the net total cost. When the product has a fixed B2B price, there is no slider. You set the default B2B discount in the organization settings, and an individual B2B price in the product's “B2B gross price” field.

Variants for orders

For orders, the product needs variants, for example “Whole tray (20 slices)”, “Half tray” and “Slice”. Each one gets a gross price with VAT and a recipe: the whole tray “use 20 of 20”, the half “use 10 of 20”, the slice “use 1 of 20”. This way every order shows the cost and profit of exactly the fraction the customer took.