Products and variants

A product and its variants

Lemon drizzle sells in three sizes, so it is one product with three variants. The product carries the name, a photo and a category of your own. Each variant is one thing you sell at one price. Only the price is required. Leave the name blank and it is taken from what the variant is made of.

• Name, photo and a category
• One variant per size or version
• Price required, name optional
• A note on what the variant includes

What a variant is made of

The 1.2 kg lemon drizzle is that much sponge, 300 g of glaze from another recipe, and a box. A variant lists recipes at an amount and single ingredients such as fresh berries. It can also hold one tiered cake from the builder and flat lines for packaging or delivery. A recipe row can be sized by tin instead of by weight.

• Recipes at any amount or tin
• Single ingredients on their own
• One tiered cake from the builder
• Flat lines for packaging or delivery

Cost and margin as you build

While you add rows, the variant shows its cost, your price and the margin between them, in money and in percent. The cost comes from today’s ingredient prices, so a dearer butter changes every variant that uses it. A row with no price makes the figure approximate, and a packaging line without a cost does the same.

• Cost from today’s ingredient prices
• Margin in money and in percent
• Approximate while a price is missing

From the catalogue to the oven

Pick the variant in an order and its price and cost land on the line, with the cost frozen that day. Plan the order and three 1.2 kg drizzles become 3.6 kg of sponge. An embedded tiered cake is planned once per line, whatever the quantity. Delete the product a year on and past orders still read as sold.

• Price and cost on the order line
• Recipes planned at amount times quantity
• An embedded cake planned once per line
• Deleting never touches past orders

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