Know what went into every batch.

A week in a small workroom

The moments that used to cost us an evening, and what Batchwell does with each one.

• The batch on the bench

  Pick a batch size and every ingredient gets a target weight. Type what the scale says and you see right away if you're over or under. Tick off steps, run timers and log temperatures. If the signal drops, it keeps saving on your phone. When you're done, the batch has its lot code, the supplier lots that went in, its cost per unit and the day it's ready to sell.

• The box that just arrived

  Enter the invoice and the one freight charge. Batchwell splits the freight across the box by weight or by cost, to the cent, so every lot carries what it really cost you. The certificate of analysis and safety data sheet stay with the lot. When something runs low, it goes on a shopping list grouped by supplier, with an order email drafted for each one.

• Market Saturday

  Bring your markets in from your calendar or from Seen Markets links. Batchwell works out what to make so it's cured in time, builds the packing list and emails you a reminder before you go. Afterwards, drop in your Square sales file and the day gets a scorecard: what it left you after the booth fee and card fees, and what that came to per hour.

• The customer who calls about a reaction

  Note it on the batch. If it's serious, you see the date an FDA report is due, so it doesn't sneak up on you. Trace the lot back to every supplier lot in it, and forward to the orders and markets it most likely went to. Quarantine a bad ingredient lot so it can't go into the next batch, or recall the batch and take unsold units off the shelf.

• “What does this actually cost me?”

  Every batch shows its cost per unit: ingredients at landed cost, packaging, and your time when you log it. Know your worth takes out each channel's fees and shows what a sale really leaves you, what you earn per hour, and retail and wholesale prices that cover both.

• Tax time

  Snap receipts as you go and each one lands on its Schedule C line. Log miles at the IRS rate, or let your phone track the drive. Profit & loss shows what Shopify, markets and wholesale each left you. When it's time, download one tax pack for your preparer: Schedule C totals, cost of goods with opening and closing inventory, sales tax by quarter, and a QuickBooks-ready file.

• The idea you want to try

  Start a project, a firmer balm or a new scent, and run trials side by side. Score each one against goals for your kind of product, then make the winner a production recipe. Recipes keep dated versions from pilot to locked to retired, and every batch remembers the version it was made from.

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