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Costing & Operations Software for Food Businesses
Standardize what you make. Know what it costs.
SUMELO connects ingredients, suppliers, purchase pricing, recipes, procedures, packaging, labor, overhead, products, production and profitability in one operating system built for recipe-based food businesses.
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Built for bakers, cottage-food businesses, caterers, private chefs, meal-prep businesses, food trucks, specialty food producers and other growing recipe-based food businesses.
English · Español · Português · Metric + Imperial · Multiple reporting currencies
SUMELO
Recipe Cost ≠ Product Cost ≠ True Cost
Recipe Cost
Ingredients and Recipe components
Production Cost
Recipe + finishing Ingredients + packaging + Materials + active labor
True Cost
Production Cost + business overhead
Production Cost
$42.18
True Cost
$49.66
Average margin
37.93%
Great food still needs a business system.
Your operation should not live across notebooks, spreadsheets, receipts and memory.
Many food businesses know how to make something people will buy long before they build the system behind it. SUMELO brings the costing and operating information behind each Product into one connected place.
“I think this costs me about…”
Know the numbers behind the Product.
“The Recipe is mostly in my head.”
Turn it into a repeatable production standard.
“I charge around what everyone else charges.”
Review pricing using your own costs and margins.
From purchase price to production
One connected workflow behind what you sell.
01
Record what you buy
Add Ingredients, Materials, Suppliers, purchase sizes and purchase prices.
02
Standardize Recipes
Build Recipes with quantities, components, yields, procedures, step-by-step instructions and photos.
03
Build Products
Combine Recipes, finishing Ingredients, packaging, Materials and active labor into what the customer actually receives.
04
Understand Production Cost
See the direct production requirements associated with creating the Product.
05
Understand True Cost
Incorporate overhead for a broader view of the cost behind what you sell.
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Review pricing & profitability
See selling price, profit, margin, markup and target-margin information using your business inputs.
Recipe Cost ≠ Product Cost ≠ True Cost
Ingredients are only one layer of the economics.
A Recipe may tell you what goes into the food. The Product your customer receives can also include finishing Ingredients, packaging, Materials and active labor. Then the business itself has overhead. SUMELO helps you see those layers instead of treating ingredient cost as the whole story.
SUMELO organizes your inputs and shows the financial implications. It does not decide what you must charge.
01
Recipe Cost
Ingredients and Recipe components
02
Production Cost
Recipe + finishing Ingredients + packaging + Materials + active labor
03
True Cost
Production Cost + business overhead
Costing + standardization + operations
Build the system behind the food.
01
Purchase pricing that flows into costing
Keep Ingredient and Material purchase information, Suppliers and price history connected to Recipe and Product calculations.
02
Recipes that become operating standards
Store quantities, yields, procedures, step-by-step instructions and photos alongside calculated Recipe cost.
03
Products that reflect what customers receive
Combine Recipes, finishing Ingredients, packaging, Materials, labor, overhead, tax configuration and selling price.
04
Production planning and saved yields
Use Production Batches, planning and saved yield information to scale production references from the Recipe or Product standard.
05
Business signals, not just stored numbers
Use Dashboard and Insights to surface profitability status, margin signals, cost changes and areas that deserve attention.
Earn with the system you already use
Turn your SUMELO system into another revenue channel.
Eligible primary owners can monetize in two different ways without leaving the platform: sell digital content built from their Recipes and Products, or earn rewards by referring other food businesses to SUMELO.
Sell with SUMELO
Create a single-item listing or a mixed bundle from Recipes and Products, choose a Personal or Commercial Use license, connect Stripe, publish a secure sales link and manage Orders.
Explore Sell with SUMELO →Affiliate Program
Share your unique referral link. Your referral gets 50% off the first monthly payment or 10% off the first annual payment, and eligible referrals generate US$4–US$10 rewards after the qualification period.
Explore Affiliate Program →Sell with SUMELO is initially available to eligible U.S. businesses. Affiliate eligibility follows the current primary-owner access rules inside SUMELO.
Built for the business you are becoming
Give your team the Recipe — not your profit margin.
As your operation grows, not everyone needs access to everything. SUMELO separates ownership, trusted management and protected production access.
Explore Team PlansPrimary owner
Full business access, including billing, Team, ownership and business-level settings.
Admin
Broad operational and financial access for trusted managers, without owner-only controls.
Member
Production access to Recipes, Products, procedures, quantities, yields, photos and Production Batches without sensitive financial visibility.
Members do not see selling prices, costs, profit, margin, markup, labor cost, target margin, Expenses or financial dashboards.
From information to attention
Don't just collect numbers. Know what deserves your attention.
Dashboard and Insights help turn your operating information into signals you can review as the business changes.
Profitability status
Average margin
Products at or above target
Products needing attention
Cost changes
Pricing history
SUMELO
Ingredients
Recipes
Products
Production
Insights
Use it where the work happens
Desktop when you're planning. Phone when you're working.
SUMELO works across desktop, tablet and mobile so your operating information can stay with you at the desk, in the kitchen, at a supplier, at a market or during production. On supported devices, you can also install SUMELO for faster app-like access.
Built for recipe-based food businesses
Different businesses. The same need for clear costs and repeatable operations.
Bakeries & Home Bakers
Connect Recipes, fillings, finishing Ingredients, boards, boxes, labor and margins.
Cottage Food Businesses
Move from a home-based operation toward a documented, measurable business system.
Caterers
Standardize Recipes, Products, yields, production references and menu economics.
Private Chefs
Organize Recipe standards, Product costs and the economics behind menus and services.
Meal Prep & Prepared Food
Build repeatable Recipes, portions, Products and production references.
Food Trucks & Market Vendors
Understand what menu items and packaged Products actually cost to produce.
Specialty Food & Emerging CPG
Build costing and production standards as a packaged-food operation grows.
Small Food Manufacturers
Connect operating standards, cost visibility, production references and team execution.
Plans that grow with the operation
Start with yourself. Add controlled access when your team grows.
Every plan includes the primary business owner. The owner never consumes an additional-user seat. Start with a 7-day free trial. Choose your plan, add a card, and nothing is charged today. Cancel before the trial ends to avoid the first charge.
United States · USD
Solo
I'm building the system for myself.
$9.99
/month
$99.00/year
Owner only · 0 additional users
For a single owner organizing costing and operations.
Crew
I'm no longer doing everything alone.
$19.99
/month
$199.00/year
Owner + up to 3 additional users
For a small team beginning to share production and operational work.
Kitchen
I have a real production team.
$29.99
/month
$299.00/year
Owner + up to 5 additional users
For growing kitchens that need more controlled team access.
Scale
My operation needs access across a larger team.
$49.99
/month
$499.00/year
Owner + up to 10 additional users
For larger operations with broader production and management needs.
Enterprise
We need more than 10 additional users.
Contact Sales
More than 10 additional users
Contact SUMELO to discuss Enterprise access.
Monthly and annual prices are shown for your market when paid billing is available.
Built from inside the food business
We built what we wished we had.
SUMELO was created by chefs and food entrepreneurs Rachel Sanchez and Julio Figueredo from firsthand experience with Recipes, costing, pricing, production, customers and operations. Their background includes becoming finalists on MasterChef USA Season 15: Dynamic Duos and participating in the national MasterChef Live Tour.
Built from firsthand food-business experience, then designed to become infrastructure the business can keep using as it grows.
Questions before you start?
What food-business owners often want to know.
Is SUMELO accounting software?
No. SUMELO is costing and operations software. It does not replace accounting, bookkeeping, tax, payroll, legal or other licensed professional services.
Does SUMELO tell me exactly what I should charge?
No. SUMELO organizes the costs, assumptions and pricing inputs you provide and shows the financial implications of your selling price so you can make your own pricing decisions.
Is SUMELO only for bakers?
No. Bakers are an important early audience, but SUMELO is designed for recipe-based food businesses including cottage businesses, caterers, private chefs, meal prep, food trucks, specialty-food producers and more.
Can I include packaging, labor and overhead?
Yes. Products can include finishing Ingredients, Materials, packaging and active labor, and overhead can be incorporated into True Cost.
Can my team use SUMELO without seeing my financial information?
Yes. The Member role is intentionally designed for protected operational access without sensitive financial visibility.
Can I use SUMELO in Portuguese?
Yes. SUMELO V2 supports English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Does SUMELO support metric and imperial measurements?
Yes. SUMELO supports metric, imperial and combined measurement preferences.
Can I earn with SUMELO?
Yes. Eligible primary owners can use EARN. The Affiliate Program lets you earn qualifying referral rewards, and eligible sellers in supported SELL markets can use Sell with SUMELO to sell digital Recipes, Products and mixed bundles.
How does the trial work?
Choose your plan and add a card to start your 7-day free trial. Nothing is charged today. Cancel before the trial ends and your card will not be charged; otherwise your selected plan begins automatically after the trial.
The operating layer between the Recipe and the business
Your food is already a craft. Build the system behind it.
Standardize what you make, understand what it costs, review the economics behind what you sell and create an operation that can be repeated beyond memory.
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