A Recipe or Product cost is unavailable or looks wrong

Overview

• A Product cost depends on a valid linked Recipe, valid Recipe output, costable components, and Store-specific Ingredient purchase options.
• Missing price, inactive/invalid purchase option, incompatible units, invalid yield, broken sub-recipe, or missing Product↔Recipe link can make costing unavailable.
• MiniTill uses Preferred/priority purchasing choices for Costing; it does not silently choose the cheapest supplier.
• Menu Profitability uses current effective Costing for past sales, so historical-looking margins can change after supplier/recipe updates.

When to use this

• Use this when cost is UNAVAILABLE/WARNING, margin suddenly changed, or a cheaper supplier appears not to affect Product cost.

Step-by-step

1. Start from Product Cost and confirm the linked Recipe.
2. Check Recipe Output quantity/unit.
3. Follow warnings into Ingredient/sub-recipe components.
4. For Ingredients, check active Preferred/priority purchase option, price, usable quantity/unit, yield, and Store.
5. Fix the first broken component and recalculate.
6. Use Savings only as an alternative-supplier suggestion, not evidence the Costing engine chose that option.

Common mistakes

• Do not edit selling price merely to hide a broken cost calculation.
• Do not compare Recipe batch cost directly to one Product sale.
• Do not change Preferred supplier without checking pack/yield/unit suitability.

Troubleshooting

• Incompatible unit requires correcting the measurement relationship rather than forcing a manual cost.
• If one Store differs from another, compare Store-specific supplier option and selling-price override data.