Three jobs it does every week

MakrPrep keeps every recipe costed, works out what to make for your orders, and tells you what to buy. Everything else it does is in the table further down. All of it is included for £19.99 a month.

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Costs that stay right

Enter what you pay for each pack once. Every recipe is costed to the penny, including the pastry, sauce or jar it goes in. When butter goes up, change it in one place and every recipe and price list follows.

Each price list suggests a minimum price from your costs, so you can see straight away what a bottle makes you at retail, wholesale and catering prices.

Smoky chipotle hot sauce

10 bottles per batch

Red chillies and chipotle£5.44

Spiced vinegar, 600 ml£1.59

Onion, garlic, sugar, salt£0.56

Bottles and labels, 10 of each£8.00

Cost per bottle£1.56

Retail

£6.25

75% margin

Wholesale

£3.90

60% margin

Catering

£4.70

67% margin

What to make, day by day

Every order is turned into batches on the day it's due. A base used in several products, like a spiced vinegar for the hot sauce and the chutney, is added up into one batch.

Tick things off as you go. A big batch can be split, so 100 pies can show 60 prepped and 40 in the oven. Print it as a prep sheet for the bench.

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What to make

10 to 11 Oct

Day	Recipe	For	Make	Status
Fri	Cheese scones	Corner Café	40	Done
Fri	Pork pies	Farm shop	100	60 prepped, 40 making
Sat	Chipotle hot sauce	Market	18	To make
Sat	Spiced apple chutney	Market	24	To make

Spiced vinegar: 2.3 litres for the hot sauce and the chutney, made as one batch.

What to buy, in whole packs

The shopping list is what your orders need minus what's already on the shelf, rounded up to the packs you actually buy and grouped by shop.

After the shop, confirm what you bought and what you paid. Your stock goes up, and if a price changed, every recipe that uses it is re-costed. Your costs stay right because you check them when you shop, not when you remember to.

Shopping list

for 10 to 11 Oct

Wholesale Foods

Unsalted butter 3 packs of 250 g£8.40

Strong white flour 1 sack of 16 kg£14.95

High Street Butcher

Pork sausage meat 3 packs of 500 g£10.35

Glass and packaging

Glass jars, 340 g 1 case of 24£14.40

Estimated total£48.10

Butter was £2.80, you paid £2.95. Confirm it and every recipe with butter is re-costed.

See it with a sample business first: bakes, hot sauce, chutney and jerky, already costed and planned.

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Cheese scones

Ingredients: Self-raising flour (WHEAT flour, calcium, iron, niacin, thiamin), mature cheddar (MILK), BUTTER (MILK), MILK, free range EGGS, MUSTARD powder, salt.

Allergens: Cereals containing gluten, Eggs, Milk, Mustard

Allergen labels from your recipes

Tick the allergens on each ingredient once. Every recipe writes its own ingredients list in weight order with the allergens in capitals, including what's inside your own pastry, fillings and sauces. UK 14 or US Big 9.

Always check a label against your packaging before printing. Natasha's Law explained

Everything else, in detail

One plan, so all of this is included.

Recipes and costing	Cost any recipe to the penny from what you pay for each pack and how big it is. Change a price once and every recipe that uses it is re-costed. Make a pastry, custard or sauce once as a component and use it in any recipe. Its cost and allergens carry through. Jars, bottles and labels are costed as packaging and left off the ingredients list. Recipes scale to what's ordered, rounded up to whole batches if you prefer.
Price lists	As many price lists as you need, such as retail, wholesale and catering. Each suggests a minimum price from a rule you set: a multiple of cost, cost plus a fixed amount, or a percentage off another list. Set your own price on any recipe. One grid shows every recipe on every list.
Orders	Customer, date and what they want. Each customer has their own price list, so orders price themselves. The price is fixed when you take the order, so later price changes don't rewrite old orders. Your own order statuses, and standing notes per customer ("deliver before 8am") on every order. Bring in existing orders from a spreadsheet.
Repeat orders	Save a market stall or a café's standing order once, then create it for any date in one click and add that week's extras.
Production plan	Everything due in the dates you pick, grouped by day, recipe, customer or status. Quantities in whole batches, which you can change. A base used in several products, like a pastry or a spiced vinegar, is added up into one batch. Split a big batch into parts with their own status: 100 pies with 60 prepped and 40 in the oven. Tick a batch done and its ingredients come off your stock. Order value, ingredient cost, profit and margin for the dates shown. Print a prep sheet.
Shopping and stock	What your orders need minus what's on the shelf, in whole packs, grouped by shop. Top up anything running low, with an estimated total for the shop. Confirm what you bought: stock goes up, and any price that changed updates every recipe.
Allergens and labels	The UK 14 or the US Big 9. Ingredient lists in weight order with allergens in capitals, including what's inside your own components and bought-in ingredients like fortified flour. Always check it against your packaging. Add allergens by hand, such as a shared fryer.
Reports	Order value by month against the year before, your busiest days, best sellers and biggest customers. Which ingredients went up or down, and what that did to each recipe's margin.
Getting started	14 days free with a sample business already set up. No card needed. Bring in ingredients, recipes, customers and suppliers from spreadsheets. Your currency and units. Export a full backup whenever you like. Works in the browser on a laptop, tablet or phone, and can sit on your home screen like an app.

What it doesn't do: MakrPrep isn't a till, an online shop or an accounting package, so keep those. It sits between your orders and your oven. If you cook everything to order on the spot, you probably don't need it.

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