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Your work and overhead

Ingredients are only part of what a recipe costs you. Your hours and the bills of running your kitchen count too. Set them up once, and every recipe shows what is really left for you.

Your hour of work

1. Go to Settings and find Your hour of work. Write what you want to earn per hour, like 15.
2. In each recipe, under Your work, write the time it takes you for the whole batch: mixing, assembling, decorating, packing, washing up.

Leave out the time the oven or the fridge works on its own, when you can do something else meanwhile. You can also set the hourly rate right from the recipe, the first time.

The rate is the same for all your recipes: change it in Settings and they all update. If a recipe uses a preparation, it brings its share of the preparation's work time too.

Overhead

Gas, electricity, water, internet, card and app fees: what you pay to work that does not belong to one recipe. In Settings, under Overhead, enter it as a percentage added on the cost of every recipe, like 10.

What changes in your recipes

Your work and overhead do not change the suggested prices, which are based on ingredients, packaging and other costs. They show on their own lines, and each recipe shows its Profit after overhead and labor: what is left after paying everything, your hour included. If that is below zero, PanProfit tells you the lowest price that covers it. See Suggested prices and your profit.

Other costs

For one-off costs of a single recipe that you don't buy by the pack, like a cake topper, a delivery or a market stall, use Other Costs in the recipe. Those do count in the suggested prices. Your work time goes under Your work, not here.