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Know your true cost. Protect your margin.

Bakelytics connects ingredient prices, real production yield and packaging costs so small food makers can price every pack with confidence.

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Cranberry Rusks v1 · per 450 g packEstimated
Cost per pack
R42.18
Shelf price at a 45% margin
R76.50

Every figure traces back to the purchase lot it came from.

That card is drawn by the working app, not for this page. Bakelytics is built and running — it is the pilot that has not opened yet.

The gap

Your recipe is not the full cost.

Ingredient prices move between supplier purchases. Energy and labour still belong to the batch. Yield loss changes how much there is to sell, and every bag, box and label adds to the final pack cost.

Bakelytics will keep those inputs connected so a recipe never stands in for the whole cost.

The inputs that shape a true batch cost

The chain

One connected picture, from supplier to selling price.

Each step carries real information forward, so the margin report can trace back to what was bought, used, made and packed.

Butter, salted · 400 gR18.50
  • LOT-2026-07-014bought 4 July · leaves firstR50.00/kg100 gR5.00
  • LOT-2026-07-021bought 11 JulyR45.00/kg300 gR13.50

Two prices, kept apart. The older lot is spent first, and the two rates are never blended into one.

Price chain: Selling price, excl VAT
StepAmount
Cost per 450 g packBatch cost R421.80 across ten 450 g packsEstimateR42.18
Margin at 45%R34.51
VAT at 15%Not charged: this business is not VAT registeredR0.00
Selling price, excl VATR76.69
Rounded to the nearest 50c, that is a shelf price of R76.50. Every figure here is a scenario the costing engine is tested against.
  1. 01

    Supplier purchase

  2. 02

    FIFO pantry lot

  3. 03

    Recipe version

  4. 04

    Production session

  5. 05

    Weight and yield

  6. 06

    Packaging run

  7. 07

    Margin report

The hard part

When the cost is not knowable, the price disappears.

Here two ingredients cannot be costed. One has no purchase lot and no price on record. The other is written in cups, with nothing on file to turn cups into grams. So the batch total, the cost per pack, the margin and the recommended price are all withheld.

Neither line is quietly counted as R0.00, and the total does not fall back to the six lines that did cost. A confident wrong number is worse than a missing one, because it gets used.

Cranberry Rusks v1Blocked
Price chain: Total batch cost
StepAmount
Six costed ingredient linesFlour, sugar, eggs, buttermilk, almonds, cranberriesR118.72
Butter, saltedNo lot on hand and no price on recordBlockedNot available
Sunflower seedsEntered in cups, with no density to convert themBlockedNot available
Total batch costNot available
  • BlockedNO_PRICE

    Record the purchase, or add a price snapshot for the butter.

  • BlockedDENSITY_REQUIRED

    Weigh one cup of seeds once. Every cup after it converts.

The same worked batch as above, with two of its inputs missing.
Production capture connecting baking and packaged goods

Who it is for

Built for the people doing the baking.

Bakelytics is being designed for an owner-operator who moves between a desk and a working kitchen. Planning, costing and production capture all run in the browser, and the same pages install to a phone's home screen for the parts that happen next to the oven.

Anything that moves a stock balance waits for a connection, deliberately: a balance that shifts while the record is out of reach is a balance nobody can trust afterwards. The first version will use ZAR and metric units throughout.

Bakelytics is coming soon.

If you run a small food business and want to help shape the pilot, tell us how you cost a batch today.

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