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How SUMELO Works

The operating layer between the Recipe and the business.

SUMELO connects what you buy, what you make, how you make it, what it costs, how you price it and how your team repeats it.

How SUMELO works

Build the system once. Use it every time you produce, review or price.

01

Record what you buy

Add Ingredients, Materials, Suppliers and purchase pricing.

02

Standardize your Recipes

Build Recipes with quantities, saved yields, procedures and supporting photos.

03

Build the Products you sell

Connect Recipes, finishing Ingredients, Materials, packaging and active labor.

04

Understand Production Cost

Review the direct production requirements behind the Product.

05

Understand True Cost

Include overhead for a broader view of what the Product costs the business.

06

Review pricing

See selling price, profit, margin, markup and target-margin context using your own business data.

From Recipe Cost to True Cost

See more than the Ingredient total.

SUMELO connects each layer of the Product so you can understand what belongs in the cost before reviewing the selling price.

01

Recipe Cost

Ingredient quantities and the Recipe structure establish the Recipe cost.

02

Production Cost

Add finishing Ingredients, Materials, packaging and active labor required by the Product.

03

True Cost

Incorporate overhead for a broader view of the economics behind what you sell.

A practical first value path

Build enough of your real business to see a real Product cost.

The trial is most useful when you move beyond browsing and build a connected example from your own operation.

1

Create your business

Set the operating context SUMELO will use.

2

Add an Ingredient

Record real purchase size, unit and price information.

3

Build a Recipe

Connect Ingredient quantities, yield and procedure.

4

Build a Product

Add the Recipe, packaging, Materials and active labor.

5

Review Production Cost

See the direct production requirements behind the Product.

6

Add overhead and review True Cost

See the broader economics behind what you sell.

7

Review the selling price

See profit, margin, markup and target-margin context.

Costing does not stop at the calculator

Carry the standard into production.

Recipes, Products, Production Batches, saved yields, publications and controlled team access help turn costing information into operating references.

✓Plan what needs to be produced.
✓Use documented quantities, procedures and photos.
✓Use saved yield information as the reference when scaling a Production Batch.
✓Create printable or shareable production references.
✓Give Members production access without exposing sensitive financial data.

Build a food business you can repeat and measure.

Organize how you make each Product, understand what it costs and review pricing using the numbers behind your own operation.

No credit card required.