If you make what you sell, Manufacturing turns raw materials into finished stock: define a bill of materials (BOM) — the recipe for a product — then record a production run, and Finocket draws the components out of stock and adds the finished goods at their rolled-up cost.
What is a bill of materials (BOM)?
A BOM is the recipe: the finished product, how many units one run yields (the output quantity), and each component with the quantity it needs. Example — 1 batch of Wooden chair (output 10) needs 20 legs, 10 seats, 2 litres of polish. Finocket shows the rolled-up standard cost per finished unit — the sum of component costs — as you build the BOM.
Set it up
It's an optional module: turn on Manufacturing under Settings → Modules & features. It builds on Inventory, so the items involved should have stock tracking on. On the Manufacturing screen, create a BOM per finished product: pick the product, set the output quantity, add components with quantities.
Record a production run
- Under Production, pick a BOM.
- Enter how many you made and the date.
- Save. Finocket consumes the components — a negative stock movement per raw material, scaled to the quantity produced — and adds the finished goods as a positive movement at the rolled-up cost, so your stock valuation stays right.
Every movement appears in the product's history on the Inventory screen, labelled Manufactured and Consumed — full traceability from raw material to finished shelf.
Work centers & routing (optional)
For multi-step making, you can route a BOM through named work centers — a saw, a bench, a polishing team — each with an hourly cost. On the Work centers tab, add a centre and set its cost per hour. Then, on a BOM, open Routing and add ordered steps: for each step pick the work center, the expected minutes, and which components it draws.
- Each step consumes its own components at that step; anything you don't assign to a step is drawn at the final step (so nothing is missed).
- Finished goods are produced only at the final step.
- Each step's labour = its minutes × the work center's rate; the steps' labour plus the material rolls into the run cost and the finished-goods value. When you record a routed run you can enter the actual minutes per step.
Total materials drawn across the steps always equal what the BOM needs — routing never creates or loses material, it just shows where the cost builds up. A BOM with no routing runs exactly as before, in one step.
Good to know
The finished cost is a standard cost rolled up from each component's rate, plus any routing labour. Only stock-tracked items move; a component or finished product without inventory tracking simply isn't counted. For step-by-step tracking of a run in flight — with a real work-in-progress ledger and a seven-day capacity view — see Work orders and work-in-progress. There is still no shop-floor scheduler: capacity is a planning aid, not a dispatcher.
Access & control
Owners and assistants define BOMs and record runs; an invited accountant sees BOMs, runs and the resulting movements read-only. Enable the module under Settings → Modules & features.