Do I need recipes if I only buy and resell?
No. Recipes and production are only for items you make from other items. A business that buys finished goods and resells them uses just Items, Stock and Sales, and everything else stays out of the way.
Recipes exist so Jogan can cost and produce things you make. If you buy finished goods and sell them as they are, skip recipes entirely.
The two ways an item can reach your shelf
| How the item arrives | What you do in Jogan | Needs a recipe? |
|---|---|---|
| You buy it ready to sell | Record a purchase on the Stock page | No |
| You make it from other items | Set up a recipe once, then run production | Yes |
Both kinds of item live in the same Items list, sit in the same stock ledger, and are sold the same way.
A reseller's daily routine
- Stock in what arrives, with the unit cost you paid. See How to log incoming stock.
- Record sales as they happen. Stock comes down and profit is worked out at your average cost. See How to record a sale.
- Glance at the Dashboard for low stock and, if you track expiry, batches coming due.
Mixed businesses
Many businesses do both: a bakery buys drinks to resell and bakes bread from a recipe. Give the bread a recipe and leave the drinks without one. An item can even be both an ingredient and something you sell directly, like flour that goes into cakes and is also sold by the kilo.
When a "recipe" is just repacking
If you buy a 25 kg sack and sell 1 kg packets, a recipe still helps: output item "Rice 1 kg" from 1 kg of "Rice (bulk)" plus one pouch. Production then converts bulk stock into packets at the right cost. See How to set up a recipe.
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