Stocksmith helps small bakeries track ingredients, manage recipes, and know exactly what everything costs to make—so you can focus on creating delicious products.
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✓ Track ingredients and manage recipes in one place
✓ Batch and lot tracking for food safety compliance
Build recipes for everything you bake. Stocksmith tracks:
Ingredient quantities and costs
Multi-stage recipes (doughs, fillings, toppings)
Batch sizes and scaling
Component reuse across products
Bill of MaterialsCinnamon Granola 400g
Cinnamon Granola 400gmakes 1$2.60
Toasted oat basesub-assembly360 g$1.84
Rolled oats300 g$0.78
Wildflower honey60 g$1.06
Cinnamon, ground8 g$0.18
Kraft pouch, 400g1$0.46
Printed label1$0.12
Costs roll up through every level automatically
Batch and lot tracking for compliance
Track ingredients from purchase through to finished products. Know which lots went into which batches—essential for food safety compliance and handling recalls quickly if needed.
Trace a lotFLOUR-2406
received lot
FLOUR 2406
1 supplier
used in
3
batches
shipped to
214
orders
Trace any ingredient to every order in seconds
Never run out of ingredients
Know exactly what you have on hand. Stocksmith tracks ingredient levels in real-time and alerts you when stocks run low—so you can reorder before you run out.
Reorder pointsWatching
Material
On hand
Reorder at
Wildflower honey
1.2 kg
4.0 kg
Kraft pouch, 400g
60
250
Bread flour
64 kg
25 kg
Rolled oats
18 kg
8 kg
2 ingredients below reorder point — restock before you run out
Track expiry dates, reduce waste
Stay on top of ingredient shelf life and product best-by dates. Use older stock first, reduce waste, and stay compliant with food safety regulations.
InventoryLive
Item
On hand
Status
Sourdough Loaf
142
In stock
Cinnamon Granola 400g
326
In stock
Butter Croissant
28
Low
Bread flour
64 kg
In stock
Ingredients and finished goods, always current
Know your true costs
See exactly what each product costs to make—ingredients, labor, overhead. Price with confidence knowing your margins are accurate, not guesswork.
Cost & marginper unit
Materials$3.10
Labour$0.80
Overhead$0.28
True cost per unit$4.18
Sell price$18.00
Gross margin76.8%
Material price up? Your margin recalculates instantly
See why bakers love Stocksmith
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"50 spreadsheets and two employees all wrapped up into one easy to use platform."
NT
Nathan T.
Labor & Mirth • Specialty Food
"It does everything I need as far as inventory, taxes, expenses, recipes, prices. I don't know how I would live without it!"
LS
Lindsay S.
Small Business Owner
Who is Stocksmith for?
If you run a small-batch bakery or food manufacturing business, Stocksmith was designed with you in mind. Whether you make bread, pastries, specialty foods, or packaged goods, Stocksmith helps you manage ingredients, cost your recipes, plan production, and stay compliant.
Sign up for any plan and get full access to every feature for 14 days—no credit card required. Add a few ingredients, build a recipe, and bake a test batch to watch ingredients deduct and costs calculate automatically. At the end of the trial, subscribe or walk away with no obligation.
What is bakery management software?
Bakery management software helps you run the operations behind your baking—ingredients, recipes, costs, and stock—in one place. Stocksmith tracks ingredient inventory in real time, scales recipes to any batch size, calculates true cost per item, and keeps the lot records you need for food safety, so you can spend more time baking.
Can bakery management software scale my recipes and cost them?
Yes. Stocksmith stores multi-stage recipes—doughs, fillings, and toppings as reusable components—and scales them to any batch size. As you adjust quantities, ingredient costs and your cost per item recalculate automatically, so you always know your margin on a dozen, a tray, or a wholesale order.
Does it help with ingredient expiry and food safety compliance?
Yes. Stocksmith tracks expiry dates and lot numbers on ingredients and finished goods, supports first-in-first-out to cut waste, and gives you full batch traceability. If you ever need to trace an ingredient or handle a recall, you can find every affected batch in seconds.
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