How Recipe cost is calculated

Overview

• For each Ingredient component, MiniTill calculates the selected purchase option's effective cost per requested Recipe unit after GST/yield/unit conversion.
• Component cost is unit cost × Recipe quantity.
• Sub-recipes contribute their calculated cost per output unit × the quantity used by the parent Recipe.
• Labour cost is added once to the complete batch.
• Total batch cost is the sum of required component and labour costs.
• Unit cost is Total batch cost ÷ Recipe Output quantity.
• If a required cost path is missing or invalid, the Recipe can become incomplete/unavailable instead of pretending the missing component costs zero.

When to use this

• Use the Recipe cost breakdown when investigating why a Product cost changed or why a Recipe is unavailable.

Step-by-step

1. Open the Recipe for the selected Store context.
2. Review batch output and component breakdown.
3. Trace any warning down to the affected Ingredient/sub-recipe.
4. Fix missing purchase price, inactive option, incompatible unit, invalid yield, or missing sub-recipe.
5. Recalculate/reopen the Recipe/Product cost.

Common mistakes

• Do not divide the batch cost manually and then also enter a reduced component quantity; MiniTill already divides by Output quantity.
• Do not treat a Recipe marked incomplete as a valid zero-cost component.
• Do not forget Labour cost is a batch-level cost.

Troubleshooting

• No active purchase option / Missing price means the Ingredient cannot currently be costed for that Store.
• Incompatible unit means MiniTill cannot safely convert the component's requested unit.
• Circular recipe/reference warnings require fixing the Recipe graph, not supplier data.