For bakers, food and drink makers, garment, soap and furniture makers, and small factories.
Raw materials go in, finished goods come out, and the cost of each batch lands in your accounts.
Simplebks runs your production in the same app as your sales, stock and books. Raw materials go in, finished goods come out, and the cost of every batch lands in your accounts without a spreadsheet in between.
Production comes with the Professional plan. The Enterprise plan adds advanced production: budgeted batches, budgeted material requests with approvals, stage moves with a quality verdict, subcontracting, shared material pools and scrap. See pricing for what each plan includes.
It is for bakers, food and drink processors, garment makers, cosmetics and soap producers, furniture workshops and small factories that want to know what each batch costs, and who price from a guess today.
Build a recipe (bill of materials) for each product: what goes in, how much, and what it costs. Recipes can run several levels deep, for products made from parts you also make.
A new recipe goes through submit and approve before it's used, and you can recost it whenever raw material prices move.
Quick Batch records a run in one step: the materials used, the products made, and optional scrap, waste and extra costs. It goes for approval before it posts, finished goods go into stock and the cost goes into your books. What to make next shows open pre-orders and invoices and products below their reorder level, and a suggestion can become a planned production order. Value on hand shows raw materials, work in progress and finished goods right now.
Overhead is charged into each batch at a predetermined rate, with a month-end true-up posted once an approver signs it off.
A cost card shows each product's real cost against the estimate, and a cost-variance report shows where a run went over.
Add production workers, see what each is owed from their batches, and record what you pay. The wage payroll spreads the wage bill across the period's approved batches.
Close each production period when you're done so the numbers stay put. This is pay for production contract staff tied to what they made, not a general HR payroll.
Take a pre-order from a customer, with an optional deposit. The demand list (your bake list, if you're a bakery) adds up open pre-orders into what to produce next.
Deliver, invoice, and the deposit is applied automatically.
Enterprise adds budgeted batches with a work board showing every batch at its stage, and material requests with approvals: the floor requests, a supervisor approves, the store issues, excess is returned.
It also adds stage moves with a quality verdict, subcontracting, shared material pools and scrap, and batch review and close with the cost closed out to your books.
| Professional | Enterprise | |
|---|---|---|
| Multi-level recipes with approval and recosting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Quick Batch, and What to make next | ✓ | ✓ |
| Stages with a pay rate for each stage | ✓ | ✓ |
| Overhead costing, cost cards, cost variance | ✓ | ✓ |
| Value on hand | ✓ | ✓ |
| Trace and recall by batch reference or lot number | ✓ | ✓ |
| Lot and expiry tracking for stock | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pre-orders with optional deposit and the demand list | ✓ | ✓ |
| Contract-staff wages: workers, amounts owed, payments, wages spread across batches | ✓ | ✓ |
| Production period close | ✓ | ✓ |
| Budgeted batches, work board, materials needed across batches | No | ✓ |
| Budgeted material requests, approvals and returns | No | ✓ |
| Stage moves with a quality verdict | No | ✓ |
| Production lot ledger (raw lots to finished lots) | No | ✓ |
| Subcontracting | No | ✓ |
| Shared material pools and scrap | No | ✓ |
| Batch review and close to the books | No | ✓ |
No. Recipes, production runs and their cost live in Simplebks, connected to your sales, stock and books.
Yes. Lot and expiry tracking for stock is on Professional and up. The Trace and recall screen searches a batch reference or lot number and shows what went into a batch and what it made. The production lot ledger, which follows raw lots into finished lots with a warning for lots about to expire, is on Enterprise.
Yes, on Enterprise. Send a stage out and receive the finished work back into the batch.
Add your production workers, see what each is owed from the batches they worked on, and record your payments. The wage payroll spreads the wage bill across the approved batches produced in that period. This covers production contract staff only, not general HR payroll.
Yes, on Professional and up. Take a pre-order with an optional deposit, and the demand list shows what to produce next.
On a Quick Batch, no: scrap and waste are posted to a production wastage account and kept out of the finished-goods cost. On Enterprise batches, normal scrap is absorbed into the batch cost and abnormal scrap is written off.
Know what every batch really cost.
