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Recipes

Build each product's bill of materials — components, yield, labor minutes, overhead and wastage — and read its live per-unit cost.

5 articles

  1. TUTORIAL: Introduction to recipes

    About 20 minutes, as a soap maker: turn a Lavender Soap Bar into a recipe with components, yield, labor and overhead, read its live cost and save version 1.

  2. About recipes (bills of materials)

    What a recipe is in Trackost, how one run's materials, labor and yield become a cost per unit, and why every save creates a new version.

  3. Build a recipe

    Open a product's recipe, add the components one run uses, set the yield and labor minutes, check the live cost and save version 1.

  4. Edit a recipe (saving creates a new version)

    Change a recipe's components, yield, labor or overhead, see what v2 active means, and why batches you already made keep their old cost.

  5. Set yield, labor minutes and overhead

    How the yield divides a run's cost, how labor minutes are priced at your labor rate, and where the optional overhead per run shows up, and where it doesn't.