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Inventory is the foundation of your business. It can make or break good operations, and can be the difference between a successful business and a struggling one. Dailybread is here to help you manage your inventory, and make sure you’re staying on top of item pricing, stock levels and recipe costs.

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Adding Inventory Items

From the left-hand navigation, locate the “Inventory” section and click the “Inventory Items” to view all existing inventory items. To add a new item, click the “New Inventory Item” button in the top right corner.

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Product name, brand and URL

From here, you can add your name, the specific brand of the item you’re tracking, and the link for where you purchase the item online.

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Product price

Next, enter the price you pay for the amount you purchase for a single unit of this inventory item. If this item comes in bulk - if you must purchase multiple at once - enter in the bulk price and not the individually packaged item’s price. Further information on measuring the amount you purchase can be found in the measurements section below. price input Once saved, Dailybread will track when you last updated your price, reminding you to update it every few months to keep your costs up-to-date.

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Suppliers

Add the suppliers you purchase this item from. This will make sure once you’re ready to re-stock, you know where to order from. supplier checkboxes If you don’t see your supplier, click the “+New” quick-create button to add a new supplier. You can visit the edit-supplier page later to fill our more details.

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Locations

Connect the locations where you store or use this item. This will help you track where you’re using your inventory when taking inventory stock. location checkboxes

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Recipe

In order to leverage your inventory in recipes, you need to enable the “Recipe Ingredient” toggle. This will ensure the Inventory Item shows up in your Recipe Ingredients list when building out your recipes. recipe ingredient toggles

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Measurements

In order to utilize recipe scaling and cost calculations, you need to make sure your purchase measurements are accurate. The measurement here is the unit of purchase, meaning the unit you buy this item in. inventory item measurements form with measurement dropdown

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Measurements: Purchase Unit Multiples

If the item you purchase comes in bulk - multiple individually packaged items - you will need to set the “Purchase Unit Multiples” field. For example, when you purchase flour, if you purchase 10 5lb bags at a time, you would set the “Purchase Unit Multiples” to 10, and the amount to 1 and the measurement to “lb”.

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Measurement Conversions

Measurement conversions are only available after you have saved your item. Once saved, you can click the “Edit Unit Conversions” to bring up the form to manage your conversions. Learn more about conversions and how they’re used in the conversion documentation.

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Liquid measurements

When converting measurements across different types - especially when scaling recipes - you want to make sure the measurements make sense for whoever is reading your recipe. In order to determine if recipes should output measurements in liquid quantities, you can toggle the “Liquid” toggle. For example, if you purchase olive oil in fluid ounces, your recipe may scale in fluid ounces as well, but this will only be accessible if you enable the “Liquid” toggle. inventory item measurements form with liquid toggle When creating or updating a an inventory item and setting the measurement to an option that is likely a liquid, like “fl oz” or “ml” this toggle is auto-enabled, but can be disabled.