Shop'NCook Pro 3.4.2 User's Manual
Costing
The costing functions allow you to estimate the cost of a shopping list, a recipe or a menu. The cost of the grocery items can be input by editing the database of items. You have also the option to import existing cost data.You can access several functions related to costing in the Costing menu of the Shopping List panel. You can maintain several sets of cost data for each of your suppliers by saving them with the function "Export Cost Data" and importing when needed. Before importing a new cost database, save the existing one by exporting it to a file and clear the data with the function "Clear Cost Data". If you don't clear the data, only the cost data specified in the import file will be updated and the other data will not be modified. This feature can be useful if you want to merge the cost data from several files.
The exported data files are in tab-delimited format that you can import and edit in Excel or a similar software. The numbers in the id column are for internal reference to the item in the item database and should not be modified. When importing the database, if the name of an item in the file and in the database do not match, the corresponding cost data will not be imported.
Cost window and color code
When you click on the costing function of the shopping list, recipe or menu panel, a window opens with the cost for each ingredients. When the software cannot compute the cost of an ingredient, it displays it in color. The meaning of the colors is as follow:- Green: unknown cost. The cost information has not been defined. You need to edit the item database and input the cost of the corresponding item or ingredient.
- Blue: unknown quantity. The software either cannot convert between the cost unit specified in the database and the unit specified for the ingredient, or the quantity of the ingredient has not been specified. To input unit conversion information, you need to go to the nutritional information editor of the ingredient and input the weight of both the cost unit and the ingredient unit, if they are not known. For a recipe, you can also specify the conversion factor by editing the recipe, selecting the Ingredients tab and clicking on the measure cup next to the ingredient.
- Red: not linked. The ingredient is not linked to the database of items. For a recipe, you can link it by editing the database of item and creating a new item, or by editing the recipe.
How To...
- How to display the cost of the shopping list
- How to estimate the cost of a recipe
- How to estimate the cost of a menu
- How to import cost data
- How to export cost data
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