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Preparations: fillings, doughs and frostings

A filling, a dough, a frosting or a sauce that you use in several recipes: cost it once as a preparation, and every recipe that uses part of it takes its cost from there.

Create a preparation

1. On the Recipes tab, tap New recipe.
2. At Do you sell this recipe?, choose No, it is a preparation.
3. Type its name, like "Buttercream" or "Dulce de leche".
4. In Total yield, write how much one batch makes, and pick the unit: 2 kg, 6 cups, 8 jars.
5. Add its ingredients like in any recipe, and tap Save recipe.

A preparation has no selling price: PanProfit shows what it costs in total and per unit of its yield (per kg, per cup...).

Use it inside a recipe

1. In the recipe, tap Add ingredient. The list shows My preparations below your ingredients.
2. Pick the preparation and write how much the recipe uses, in the unit of its yield (or another of the same kind): 300 g of a 2 kg filling, 1 cup of frosting.

The recipe takes that share of the preparation's cost, and of its work time if you entered one. If the preparation's ingredients go up, every recipe that uses it updates.

To change the preparation without leaving the recipe, tap Edit preparation on its line. When you save it, PanProfit takes you back to the recipe, with the new cost.

A recipe you sell and also use inside others

Some things are both: you sell a jar of jam, and you also use it inside a cheesecake. Keep it as a recipe you sell and open Do you also use it inside other recipes? to add its total yield. It then shows in My preparations too.