Your recipe is created! The next step? Let's get your recipe costs set up!
Costing is available to:
Plans: Business, Premium, and Premium Plus
Team Members: Account Owner, Editors, and Managers
In meez there are multiple ways to add costs to your ingredients.
Add them manually to the ingredients by entering the purchase UoM and Price either on the cost tab in the recipe or on the ingredients page.
Upload your purchase items and costing information by a spreadsheet then link the purchase items to your ingredients. Learn more here!
If you are a Premium Plus subscriber: enable one of our integrations to automatically pull your purchase data to meez from other back-office tools.
Add your costs manually to your ingredients.
Open a recipe that includes ingredients without costs
Click that EDIT button and select the Cost tab. (Screenshot 1)
In Edit mode, click "Add cost" next to the ingredient (Screenshot 2)
Now you should see blank fields for adding costing information. (Screenshot 3)
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In the above image, there are two required fields to fill in when manually costing and one field for attaching purchase items.
Purchase Cost (required)
Purchase Unit (required)
Purchase Cost
Type in the amount that you paid for the purchase unit.
If you bought it $10/lb then enter $10. $30 for the whole case? Enter $30.
Purchase Unit
Enter the purchase cost of how you bought the ingredient. There are many different ways an item can be purchased so let's go over a few examples.
Examples
Ingredients like Ground Beef can be bought by the lb. Ex for $10/lb.
Apples can be bought by the each.
Flour can be bought by a 25lb case.
Custom Case Sizes
Many ingredients are bought by a unique case size.
A case of relish contains 4/12oz jars.
A case of vinegar that contains 4/1gallon jugs.
A case of brown sugar that contains 12/2lb boxes.
To enter a new unique case size, type in the case size into the purchase unit section.
Click "Add New Unit called" in the drop down menu (Screenshot 5)
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Next you will need to define that unit by assigning it a value.
Here are some examples:
A case of 4/12oz jars of relish would be 48 (quantity) and oz (unit).
Case of brown sugar of 12/2lb boxes would be 24 (quantity) and lb (unit).
For the case=4/1gallon, ew would enter 4 (Quantity) and gallon (unit). (screenshot 6)
Once you have entered the correct pack size information, click "Add Unit."
Then click the blue "Update" button at the bottom of the cost modal.
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Purchase Item Mapping
Purchase Item mapping from a recipe can be used if you have:
Imported your ingredient costs by a spreadsheet, (available for business plans & higher)
Use invoice processing or a 3rd party inventory system to import your ingredient costs set up and their purchase item have been successfully imported to their new purchase item table (available for Premium Plus subscribers)
For a walkthrough on how to map your purchase items to your ingredients from a recipe click here.
Mapping from a recipe
In the cost modal:
Locate the Item Mapping search bar. (see screenshot 7 below)
Type in the name of the purchase item you want to link to your ingredient. Or if you know the item ID number you can type that in as well.
In the drop-down menu, you will see your purchased items (as they appear in your New Purchase Item Table). Click the purchase item you want to map to your ingredient. (screenshot 8)
Once selected the purchased items, costing information will automatically fill in the required boxes. (screenshot 9)
Lastly, click the blue Update button.
You have now mapped and added costs to your ingredient!
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Our Demonstration recipe is also now fully costed!
If you would like more in-depth information about adding costs: