Review supplier price changes

Overview

• When a connected Supplier Product price changes, MiniTill can compare Product cost snapshots before and after that price change.
• The impact follows the linked Ingredient into directly affected Recipes, parent Recipes that use them as sub-recipes, and finally linked Products.
• A Cost Review records previous/current Product cost, cost delta, selling price, gross profit/margin changes, food-cost changes, and the source supplier price history.
• Actionable statuses are PENDING and ACTION_REQUIRED.
• Staff can add a note, mark Action required, Mark reviewed, or Dismiss.
• REVIEWED/DISMISSED records store reviewer/time; changing review status does not automatically change menu price or purchasing preference.

When to use this

• Use Cost Reviews whenever supplier pricing moves enough to affect Products and you need an auditable decision about whether to act.

Step-by-step

1. Open Costing → Cost Reviews for the selected Store.
2. Process queued price histories first if needed.
3. Review the affected Product and cost delta.
4. Open Product/Ingredient context if a change needs investigation.
5. Add a note.
6. Choose Action required, Mark reviewed, or Dismiss according to the business decision.
7. Make any actual menu-price/purchasing change separately.

Common mistakes

• Do not mark Reviewed assuming MiniTill has changed the Product price.
• Do not Dismiss simply because the supplier price went down; the review may still be useful for margin/purchasing context.
• Do not confuse queued price changes with completed impact reviews.

Troubleshooting

• If a known price change produced no review, verify the Supplier Product is connected to an Ingredient that ultimately reaches a linked Product.
• If queued histories remain, use the Dashboard reprocess path and inspect errors before manually recreating anything.