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Track labor and overhead

Add labor hours on the batch page and define overhead periods for indirect costs. Both flow into each batch's cost automatically.

Ingredient and packaging costs come from your purchases. Labor and overhead you record yourself. Only admins and owners can add them.

Labor, per batch

  1. Open the batch and click Add Labor on the Labor Entries card.
  2. Enter the Worker name, Hours, Hourly rate and Entry date. The date starts as today. Task description is optional.
  3. Click Save Labor Entry.

A batch's labor cost is the sum of its entries: hours times rate. Add one entry per person or per task, whichever matches how you track time. To remove an entry, click its trash icon on the batch page and confirm. The labor estimate on a bill of materials is for reference only. It does not add to batch cost.

Overhead, per period

Overhead covers the indirect costs that no single batch owns: rent, utilities, insurance, equipment.

  1. Open Supply Chain, then Overhead Periods, and click Add overhead period.
  2. Set the Period start and Period end, and enter the Total overhead for that period. Add a Description if you like, such as "June rent + utilities". It shows on the list.
  3. Click Save.

FourFoxes splits the total evenly across every batch with a packaging date inside the period, and adds that share to each batch's cost. For example, 3,000 dollars for June 1 to 30 with 10 batches packaged that month adds 300 dollars to each batch. A batch with no packaging date gets no overhead. To change a period, click Edit on its row in Overhead Periods. To remove one, open the row's ⋯ menu and choose Delete.

Add Overhead Period form The Add Overhead Period form with a note on how overhead is split across batches, and fields for Period start, Period end, Total overhead and an optional Description, followed by the Save button. Add Overhead Period How overhead factors into COGS: the total you enter is split evenly across every batch packaged between the start and end dates, and each batch's share is added to its cost. * Required fields are marked with an asterisk. Period start * 06/01/2026 Period end * 06/30/2026 2 Total overhead * 3000.00 Split evenly across every batch packaged within the period. Description (optional) June rent + utilities + insurance Save Cancel 3
An overhead period: the total is shared evenly by the batches packaged in its dates.
Overhead shares move as batches are added

The split is recalculated as batches land in the period. A batch's overhead share can change until the period is over and all its batches are packaged.

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