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Bakery Costing
by Knomart · Engine E3 — Cost and price
What each recipe really costs you, and the price that still leaves a margin when flour moves.
$15 / month
One price, everybody pays it, anywhere we sell. No setup fee, no contract.
Get started Open the live demoWhat it does
What each recipe really costs you, and the price that still leaves a margin when flour moves. Underneath it is engine E3 — what a job costs and what to charge — materials at pack price, recipe, margin, price out. An agent sets it up in your business in half an hour, you record the first real transaction yourself, and he comes back every month.
Record in seconds
Your staff enter the work on a cheap Android in three taps. No training beyond the first day.
The day, closed
Expected against received, with the difference named — not buried in a report nobody opens.
Staff and their work
Who did what, what they earned, and a total that does not depend on anyone’s memory.
Owner-only totals
Staff see their own work. Only your login sees the money.
Works on bad network
Entries are kept on the phone and sync when the line comes back.
Your data, exportable
Every record downloads to a spreadsheet whenever you want it, including the day you leave.
What you can see
A screen per question. Your staff only ever see the first one.
Recipes
What each thing costs to make
Ingredients at the pack price you actually paid, divided down to the portion you actually use.
✓Cost per cake, loaf or tray
✓Gas, packaging and labour included
✓Update once, every recipe follows
Price out
What to charge
Move the margin and watch the price, or set the price and watch the margin. Both directions.
✓Margin slider
✓Price suggestions per size
✓Warning when you are under cost
Re-cost
When prices move
Flour goes up on Tuesday. By Tuesday evening you know which of your prices are now wrong.
✓One ingredient, every affected recipe
✓New margin per item
✓What to change first
Orders
The job in front of you
Cost a custom order before you quote it, not after you have already agreed a number.
✓Quote from real cost
✓Deposit and balance
✓What the job earned
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Or read it here
Recipe · black forest 1kg
KES 512
Cost to make, at today's prices
Price out
KES 1,200
Margin 57% at this price
When flour moves
+ KES 34
Re-costed on 12 recipes
Who sees what
Different logins, different apps. Nobody sees more than their job needs — which is the whole reason an owner trusts it.
Owner — Recipes, costs and prices
The full costing book, and the only login that can change a price.
✓Every recipe and its cost
✓Margin and price out
✓Ingredient prices
✓Order costing and history
Cannot
✕Nothing hidden
✕Deleted recipes stay recoverable for 30 days
Helper — Enters what was bought and baked
Whoever does the shopping can enter the pack price without seeing your margins.
✓Record ingredient purchases
✓Record what was baked
✓Flag a price that changed
Cannot
✕See recipe costs or margins
✕Change a selling price
Against what you use now
| The book | A spreadsheet | Bakery Costing | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost of one cake | An estimate | Right when you built it | Right today |
| Flour goes up | You find out in profits | You edit every formula | One entry, all recipes re-cost |
| Quoting a custom order | A guess plus a bit | Twenty minutes of typing | Cost, then margin, then price |
| Knowing your margin | No | If the formulas are right | Per item, always |
What owners ask
Money
"I know my prices."
You knew them at last month's flour price. This tells you what today's pack does to today's margin.
"Why monthly and not once?"
Because prices move monthly. A one-off costing is out of date by the next delivery.
Day to day
"I don't have time to enter recipes."
Enter one — the cake you sell most. Ten minutes, and it usually changes what you charge for it.
"My orders come on WhatsApp."
Keep them there. This is for what the order costs you and what it should earn.
Data & staff
"Are my recipes private?"
They are yours alone, visible to your login only, and they export to a spreadsheet whenever you want them.
What changed lately
Since June
This month
Re-cost runs across every recipe when one ingredient price changes.
Packaging added as its own cost line.
May
Last month
Margin slider replaced the typed percentage — bakers kept mis-typing it.
April
First release
Built from Ruvonga Bakes' real recipe book.
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SMS reminders
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Website + booking page
A one-page site with your prices and a booking link you can send.
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Staff training seats
An hour with a trainer for the people who actually type into it.
$5 / seat
Branch dashboard
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Ask your numbers
Question your own records on WhatsApp and get the figure back, not a guess.
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One add-on at a time, never two at signup — your agent will tell you the same thing.