Sound familiar?
"Ingredient prices went up... again. How do I adjust my prices?"
"Did I include labor in this cost? I think so...?"
"Is this product actually profitable? I have no idea."
"I type every bill into QuickBooks by hand."
There's a better way. ↓
Every dollar matters when ingredient prices move daily
Business Butler replaces spreadsheets and guesswork with a single, clean system that shows what every product costs to make and the margin it leaves.
With live ingredient pricing, labor and packaging.
For retail, wholesale, and distributor channels.
Using vendors, POs, and reports in one place.
From spreadsheets to clarity
How it works
Vendors → Ingredients → Recipes → Products & Pricing → Profit
Import vendors and manage purchase orders
Track ingredient costs, allergens, and nutrition facts
Build recipes with real batch sizes and labor
Link products and set prices per channel
See margin per product and channel
Works with QuickBooks Online and Shopify
Less retyping between the systems you already use.
Push with one click:
- Vendors
- Bills from POs
- Payments
No retyping bills from POs
Push products with:
- Names and retail prices
- Descriptions, SKUs and barcodes
From Business Butler to your store
USDA reference foods:
- Auto-populate nutrition
- Per 100 g, per ingredient
Official USDA FoodData Central
Email your vendor:
- PO number, date and total
- Straight to your vendor
Sent from Business Butler
Less data entry. Fewer mistakes.
Built for makers like you
See exactly how much each bottle costs including peppers, packaging, and your time.
Price for Whole Foods, farmers markets, and your website - all with healthy margins.
Track nut and oat costs as they change, and see what each bag costs now.
Push your products and prices to your Shopify store.
Count labor hours in what every batch costs, and price custom orders from what they cost to make.
Keep purchase orders in one place and email suppliers a summary.
See inside Business Butler
Every feature designed for food manufacturing
Dashboard overview
Every KPI at a glance: monthly spend, average margin, overhead, unpaid POs, and quick actions.
- See monthly costs at a glance
- Track margins across products
- Monitor unpaid purchase orders
- Quick actions for common tasks
Dashboard
Monthly Spend
$12,450
This month
Avg Margin
42%
Across products
Overhead
$3,200
Per month
Unpaid POs
5
$2,340 total
Recipe: Maple Walnut Granola
Recipe costing
Build recipes from ingredients and labor; products add packaging. See the batch cost on every recipe.
- Real-time cost calculations
- Include labor in every batch
- Track yield variance
- Scale recipes automatically
Pricing by channel
Set retail, wholesale and distributor prices, and see the margin each one leaves.
- Track margins per channel
- Record a target margin
- See unit cost and price side by side
- Adjust prices confidently
Vendor Performance
| Vendor | Total Spend | POs |
|---|---|---|
| Organic Valley | $8,450 | 12 |
| Nuts.com | $6,200 | 8 |
| Local Honey Co | $2,100 | 5 |
Vendors & purchase orders
Track supplier spend, receive inventory and clone POs for repeat orders.
- Track lifetime spend per vendor
- Receive POs and update inventory
- Push to QuickBooks in one click
- Clone POs for repeat orders
Ingredient intelligence
See cost history, allergens and nutrition per 100 g, and which ingredients still need data.
- USDA database integration (FREE)
- Nutrition per 100 g
- Allergen tracking
- Cost history trends
Almonds (Raw)
$8.50/lb
45 lbs
Contains: Tree Nuts
NUTRITION (per 100g)
Profitability Report
| Product | Cost | Price | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maple Granola | $86 | $155 | 45% |
| Apple Walnut | $87 | $160 | 46% |
| Cinnamon Raisin | $76 | $125 | 39% |
Reports & exports
Download cost, profitability, and inventory valuation in a click.
- Profitability by product
- Cost breakdown reports
- Inventory valuation
- Export to CSV
Costing, pricing, purchasing and integrations in one place
Search USDA reference foods and fill in nutrition per 100 g
Free on every plan
Send vendors, bills from POs and payments with one click.
No retyping
Push product names, descriptions, SKUs and prices to your store.
One click
Track margins for retail, wholesale, and distributor
Price with confidence
Log batches with yield variance and quality ratings
Know what works
Generate purchase order and recipe PDFs
One click, done
Estimate what it's worth to you
Your figures, with every assumption shown
ESTIMATED VALUE PER MONTH
Your team needs Professional ($49/month). After its price:
$667/month
How we estimate this
- An hour is valued at $47: the mean wage of a food-manufacturing supervisor ($33.94, BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025) plus benefits and taxes (BLS Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, June 2026, manufacturers with 1–49 workers).
- Each purchase order built from saved vendors and prices saves about 7.5 minutes. (Our assumption.)
- Ingredients and packaging are 40% of revenue and rise 4% a year. Seeing costs per product, you notice 40% of the increases and pass on 50% of those. (Our assumptions.)
- Nutrition labels are not counted: generating them is not available yet.
- It is an estimate, not a promise. Your figures will differ.
USDA nutrition data
From the official FoodData Central database
Encrypted in transit and at rest
HTTPS everywhere; our database host encrypts stored data
14-day money-back
Ask within 14 days of your first payment for a full refund
Simple, transparent pricing
Start free. Upgrade when you're ready. Cancel anytime.
To try it with a few products
For growing businesses
Every plan includes email support. We reply to every ticket within one business day, Monday to Friday.
No credit card required. Cancel anytime. Export your lists as CSV anytime.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. Starter is free and needs no card. Professional and Business start with a 14-day free trial, also without a card: add one before the trial ends to keep the plan, or your organisation moves to Starter and nothing is charged. One free trial per organisation.
Weighted Average and Latest Price. Labor and packaging are included in product cost. Overhead is tracked, but not yet allocated into product cost. We do not offer FIFO or LIFO: doing them properly means tracking every stock movement including waste and corrections, and a figure that drifts from your actual shelves is worse than an honest average. Every price you paid stays on its purchase order.
Yes. Import vendors, ingredients, products and purchase orders from CSV spreadsheets, and export your lists as CSV whenever you like.
Yes. Professional supports up to 5 users and Business up to 15. Every member has a role: owner, admin, member or view-only.
Connect your QuickBooks account, then push vendors, bills from purchase orders, and payments with one click. Nothing is sent until you choose to send it.
Not yet. You can fill in nutrition per 100 g for every ingredient from the official USDA FoodData Central reference foods, free on every plan. Generating Nutrition Facts labels is not available yet.