Use the Costing Dashboard

Overview

• The Dashboard is the operational health screen for Costing at the selected Store.
• Recipe coverage shows calculable active Recipes.
• Product coverage covers Products with Recipe links that can currently be costed.
• Over target identifies costed Products whose current food-cost percentage is above their effective target.
• Supplier connection issues include failed connection tests, sync errors, or enabled scheduled syncs that have become stale.
• Unlinked supplier products identify active supplier catalogue items that are not connected to any Ingredient purchase option.
• Queued price changes and pending Cost Reviews show supplier-price changes that still need processing or management attention.

When to use this

• Use the Dashboard as the first place to check Costing health rather than opening every Recipe individually.

Step-by-step

1. Choose the Store.
2. Review effective target and its Business/Store source.
3. Check Recipe and Product coverage.
4. Fix Supplier connection issues and unlinked products.
5. Open over-target Products for detailed costing.
6. Process queued price histories when shown.
7. Review pending Cost Reviews.

Common mistakes

• Do not interpret 100% Recipe coverage as every menu Product being costed; Product coverage is separate.
• Do not ignore unlinked supplier products if they represent ingredients you actually buy.
• Do not assume a queued price history is already a finished Cost Review.

Troubleshooting

• If the Dashboard shows a Recipe without cost, open it and trace its warnings.
• If supplier health is stale, test/sync the connection before trusting old prices.