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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. The other two cost components you record yourself. Both are admin-only.

Labor, per batch

  1. Open the batch and click Add Labor in the Labor Entries card.
  2. Enter the worker's name, the hours, the hourly rate, and what the task was.
  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.

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 start and end dates and the total overhead for that period.
  3. Click Save.

[facsimile candidate: Overhead Period form]

FourFoxes splits the total evenly across every batch packaged 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.

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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