Ingredients, Materials & Costs
Ingredients, Materials and Costs
This section allows you to add the ingredients, materials, labour and all other miscellaneous expenses that go into this item (e.g. The components of a burger - bun, patty, cheese, salad, etc.).
This allows users to deduct inventory at the ingredient/material level, which will be automatically removed from your inventory after the item is sold in the POS.



Add Inventory
Tap on ‘Inventory’ to add items, item quantity and cost.




Tap the green check mark located on the left, under ‘Auto Deduct’, if you want this expense to be deducted for this item every time.
Tap the red bin icon to delete the expense from the item.




Tap the info icon to bring up a list of add-on options, enabling you to choose which extra information you would like shown underneath the inventory item.





NO, LITE, EXTRA and SIDE
These options allow you to add to, and edit, the item in the POS module.
NO: Remove default components of the item (e.g. Cheeseburger, NO pickle).
LITE: Select the low calorie, low fat, or low sugar version of the ingredients that make up the item (e.g. Cheeseburger, LITE mayonnaise).
EXTRA: Add extras to this item (e.g. Cheeseburger, EXTRA cheese).
SIDE: Choose the sides for this item (e.g. Cheeseburger with a SIDE of fries).


Add Expenses
Tap on ‘Expenses’ to add a description, the type of expense and the cost.




This will make a new Expenses field appear.




Add Labour Costs
Tap on ‘Labour’ to add which staff member did the work and the cost of labour.




This will make a new Labour field appear.




Total Cost, Markup and Margin
This smart feature helps you work out your margins; after filling out the costs in the previous fields it will automatically calculate them for you.
Markup
Tap to input the amount of markup you wish to add. This will be reflected in a recalculated retail price.




Tax
Tap to see which type of tax has been added to the item cost.




Commission
Tap the orange cross icon (which will change it to a green check mark) to confirm you want to add commission for this item.




Now enter, using the numeric keypad, the amount of commission applied to this item. Doing this will recalculate the final margin.



