Products
Create products, add materials and labour, understand cost breakdowns, and set selling prices.
Introduction to Products
What a product is in CrafterBy and how the cost breakdown structure works: materials, labour, machines, and overhead allocation.
Creating Your First Product
Step-by-step guide to creating a product in CrafterBy, from the basic details form through to adding cost components.
Adding Materials to a Product
How to add materials to a product, enter the quantity used, and apply a waste factor for materials where some is inevitably lost.
Adding Labour to a Product
How to add labour entries to a product, record time per task, and apply the correct hourly rate including overrides for specialist work.
Adding Machine Costs to a Product
How to add machine time to a product and have CrafterBy calculate the equipment cost based on the machine's cost per hour.
Adding Consumables and Components
How to add consumable materials to a product, and how to add a pre-built component (sub-assembly) to a product.
Understanding the Cost Breakdown
A reference guide to every line in the CrafterBy cost breakdown panel, with definitions and a complete worked example.
Setting Your Selling Price and Margin
How to set a selling price in CrafterBy, the difference between margin and markup, and how to use the target-margin calculator.
Using Templates to Speed Up Product Creation
How to create a product from a template, and what a template contains.
Managing Product Stock
How to enable finished goods stock tracking on a product, set stock levels, and understand how stock changes with production and sales.