How do I see the profit on each order?

A profit panel sits beside the totals while you are building an order or a quote. It splits the cost into ingredients, packaging, labour, overhead and the per-order share of your fixed monthly costs, compares the result against the target margin you set in pricing settings, and tells you the revenue that order would need to reach the target.

It flags an order that has fallen below target, and gives a stronger warning to one that has fallen below half of it. So a discount is a decision you make with the number in front of you rather than one you discover later.

The revenue it measures against

Tax is money you remit, not money you keep. Delivery is a pass-through whose cost is tracked separately. Counting either as revenue makes every order read healthier than it is.

Across orders, not just one

The reports in analytics cover profit margin, top products by revenue and by number of orders, and revenue against expenses, over a date range you choose. The headline margin is weighted by order value, so one small order cannot swing it as hard as a large one, and an order with no cost data recorded against it drops out of the calculation rather than counting as a hundred percent margin.

Why last March still reads as last March

Put your flour price up tomorrow and your live product costs move, your price review list fills up, and your historical margins stay exactly where they were. A system that recomputed old orders against today's costs would tell you a profitable March lost money.

What the figure is built from

• Labour. The labour in the cost is the minutes on the recipe times the rate you set, so the recipe times are worth keeping close to the real bake.
• The rates you set. A labour rate, overhead percentage or fixed-cost figure left at zero costs your products as if those things were free, so set them first.
• Items, not doorsteps. Delivery sits outside the margin by design, on both sides: its revenue and its cost are tracked on their own.
• Order value. Revenue in the reports reads what the order was worth when it was placed; the cash view lives in analytics.

Set your rates before you trust any of these figures. For the wider question of whether the business as a whole is ahead, see how do I know if my bakery is actually making money, and for what else the reports cover, see analytics and reporting.