Production (prep items)

• See which preparations are below their target and how many batches to make.
• Check at a glance whether you have enough ingredients for the run.
• Produce a batch — it consumes the ingredients and adds finished prep to stock, with cost rolled up automatically.
• Record a short yield when a batch makes less than expected, so stock stays honest.
• Track live batches with their use-by dates, and discard what's past it.

• Today — for each prep below target, how many batches to produce to top up, and whether your ingredients cover it (it names what's short if not); beside it, what to use first and what's been made today.
• Preparations — your prep items with their recipes and a tag for each one’s When it runs out setting (Automatic, Prep only or Ingredients only): edit a recipe, produce a batch, or reprint a label. An Ingredients-only prep keeps no stock, so it has nothing to produce — it opens its recipe instead.
• Batches — the live rotation board (fresh / use-soon / expired) with discard and reprint, plus a history of recent production.

1. 1Press Produce on a preparation and choose how many batches — you'll see exactly what it will make and consume.
2. 2If the run fell short, enter the actual yield; the difference is written off as prep loss so on-hand matches the shelf and the cost of the shortfall shows in your waste report.
3. 3Keep label printing on to get a USE-BY sticker per container (needs a label printer under POS › Printing; otherwise it prints on the receipt printer).

1. 1Open Inventory › Production. Create prep items themselves under Inventory › Stock › New item, with the type Preparation, then add their recipe.

With the default Automatic setting, a sale that finds the prep empty makes the missing amount from its ingredients there and then — so stock stays right on a busy day when nobody logged the batch. Recording batches still gives you use-by labels and an honest yield. See Inventory › When a prep runs out.