What Recipes & Costs does
Open Recipes & Costs to see product costs, recipe assignments, margins, warnings, and stale storefront ingredient declarations. The feature has focused areas for Product recipes, Recipes, Ingredients, and Plan a bake.
Create ingredients or supplies with package prices.
Build reusable library recipes with a positive yield.
Assign a recipe or direct ingredient groups to a product.
Set packaging, labor, overhead, and target margin.
Review cost warnings and apply a price only when you are ready.
Use Plan a bake to aggregate selected orders and build a shopping estimate.
Keep individual items, batches, and packs separate
A reusable recipe records what a full recipe makes. A product recipe defaults to Recipe for one item: enter the amount used by one individual item. If the saved recipe makes 10 cookies, use 1 cookie per item. Set 1, 3, 6, or 12 under Items in each size or pack for the sizes you sell.
Use Edit batch ingredients for full-batch ingredient entry and to review how many individual items the production batch makes. Costs divide batch ingredients across those items, then scale for each pack; packaging is charged once per sale. Save recipe edits before relying on new costs or applying a price suggestion.
What it does not do
Recipe costing does not silently change your storefront price. It also does not replace order-time production snapshots: bake planning rounds batches for planning, while fulfillment consumes exact order-time requirements.
Common problems
Product still sells without costing: that is supported; unassigned products use their manual cost fallback.
Suggested price is disabled: save any unsaved recipe edits, then resolve missing ingredient prices, densities, conversions, or variant mappings.
Customer ingredient copy is old: publish the storefront ingredient declaration after reviewing recipe changes.
Start from an existing recipe
Use Import recipe to paste a recipe or supply its URL. Review the yield, ingredient matches, amounts, and conversions before saving. You can save an unfinished recipe draft or use Save recipe & create product draft to attach it to a new, unpublished product. Creating that draft does not set a final storefront price or publish the item.
Read the current selling price
For a product sold in priced sizes or variants, Recipes & Costs uses the current sellable variant prices. A list summary can show the lowest available variant price; open the product to compare each size with its matching units-per-sale and cost.
If there is no sellable priced variant, a missing price is not a free product or a zero-dollar selling price. Check the offered sizes and their saved prices. A quantity menu uses its configured menu pricing rather than an unrelated base or variant price.
Prepare product labels
After reviewing and publishing ingredient wording, use Pro Label Studio to create reusable designs and print product labels. Automatic labels use the published ingredient declaration and current allergen information; recipe edits may require another wording review. Set up product labels.
Next steps
Plan availability
Plan: Recipes & Costs is available on Free.
Keywords
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