Run a food and beverage manufacturing unit on Finocket

Recipes that are the costing, batch cooking that yields packed cartons with a best-before date, near-expiry stock caught before a distributor sends it back, and modern-trade, distributor and quick-commerce sales on one book.

Business owner

What you set up

Food & beverage manufacturing businesses run on the Business plan, which turns on 38 modules:

Turn any of these off if you don't need them - see setting Finocket up for your trade for the two decisions worth getting right on day one.

What you'll do day to day

The bill of materials is the costing

Signed in as a staff member, open /manufacturing?tab=boms. Open the Rasgulla Tin 1 kg BOM: raw materials and routing roll up into one cost per unit of rasgulla cartons.

A work order from plan to finished stock

Signed in as a staff member, open /manufacturing?tab=workorders. One draft, one in progress, one completed - start a draft and walk it through its routing steps.

Production consumes raw, yields finished

Signed in as a staff member, open /manufacturing?tab=production. A completed run: raw material out, finished goods in at the rolled-up cost, labour from the work centres included.

Capacity by work centre

Signed in as a staff member, open /manufacturing?tab=capacity. Which work centre is the bottleneck this week, from the open work orders' routing minutes.

Best-before on every batch

Signed in as a staff member, open /inventory. Finished cartons by batch (GS-…) with best-before; near-expiry batches flagged for a scheme push.

East-India distribution

Signed in as the owner, open /invoices. Interstate invoices to Odisha, Assam, Bihar with IGST and e-way bills; TCS on the super-stockist.

HSN summary for GSTR-1

Signed in as the accountant, open /reports/hsn-summary. Sales by HSN: sweets and namkeen under 2106, the mango drink under 2202, ready for the GSTR-1 table.

A Howrah sweets and snacks maker catching near-expiry before the distributor does

Before: Recipes costed by feel, best-before dates on the carton only, and near-expiry returns arriving unannounced from distributors.

With Finocket: Recipe BOMs per carton, every cooking run a batch with its best-before, and near-expiry cartons flagged for a scheme push.

(Gangasagar Foods, a demo food & beverage manufacturing workspace in Kolkata, West Bengal - not a real customer.)

See how Finocket fits your trade for the same use cases with the case study in full, or bring your existing books across if you're switching from another system. Running this on a phone at the counter and a desktop at month-end? See what each device is best for.

Document templates and the look of your invoices

Choose one of thirteen templates from a live preview — bill of material, retail bill, services, jewellery, pharmacy, works contract, export, quotation and more — then tune colours, columns, words, a cover page and a signature. Terms and notes are rich text.

Share an invoice, estimate or receipt on WhatsApp

Send a document from your own WhatsApp with a private link that expires and that you can switch off. Nothing is sent for you and no provider is involved.

Clients, projects and invoices

Add clients with GSTIN + state auto-fill. Send invoices — tax invoice, bill of supply, export invoice, receipt or credit note — start from an estimate, or split an invoice into a deposit + milestone schedule.