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Write a recipe
List what goes into one finished product, and how much, so every batch of it can be costed instead of estimated.
- Steps
- 4 · About 3 min
- Who can do this
- Owner · Manager · Team member
- Needs the module
- Production
Before you start
A recipe is the list of what goes into a product you make. Horizon213 keeps one recipe per finished product, because "the recipe for Jus 1L" means one thing in a business, and a second competing recipe for the same product is a question nobody wants to be asked at the machine.
Write it once. Every batch copies it, so changing the recipe next month never rewrites what a past batch actually consumed.
Open Recipes
Production in the sidebar, then Recipes. If Production is not in your sidebar, the module is off for this company — someone with manager access can turn it on in company settings.
Say what it makes
Choose the finished product, give the recipe a name you will recognise, and set the quantity the recipe produces.
Write the recipe for the batch size you actually work in. If you mix a hundred litres at a time, say a hundred — Horizon213 scales any other quantity from it. Forcing everything into a per-unit fraction makes recipes harder to check against what the person at the machine already knows.
List the materials
Add one line per material: which product, and how much of it the recipe uses.
Waste % is the allowance for what gets spoiled getting that material into the product — the flour left in the mixer, the offcut, the bottle that cracks. It increases the quantity taken out of the store, and therefore the cost of the batch. Leave it at zero when there is nothing to allow for.
Only stocked products appear in these lists. A service cannot be made or consumed as a material, and a product nobody tracks has no balance to take from. Add anything missing to the catalogue first.
Save it
Save the recipe stores it and returns you to the list, where you can see the material cost of one batch at catalogue prices.
That figure is a guide only. When a batch actually starts, the materials are valued at what your store says they are worth that day — the moving weighted average — which is usually not the catalogue price.
To stop using a recipe without losing the history of the batches that used it, edit it and turn off In use. It disappears from the list of things you can make; the batches that already used it keep their own copy.