What is Jogan?

Jogan is a web application for small and growing businesses that buy materials, make something from them, and sell the result. A bakery, a restaurant kitchen, a spice or pickle packer, a sauce maker, a soap workshop, a small furniture or garments factory: if you follow a recipe or a bill of materials, Jogan is built around how you already work.

It replaces the stock sheet, the costing spreadsheet and the sales notebook with one system where every number is already worked out.

The problem Jogan solves

Most production businesses can answer "what did we sell?" but not "what did it cost us?" Flour was one price last month and another this month, so the cost you quote is a guess. Someone sold from the shelf and forgot to write it down, so the stock sheet and the shelf disagree. A tin of something expired before anyone noticed. And every time somebody asks "how much did we make?", you rebuild the same spreadsheet.

Jogan keeps one running answer to all of that, updated as your team works.

What Jogan does

• Items. One list of everything you buy, make or sell: name, unit, category, selling price, minimum stock, and whether it expires. See How to add your items.
• Stock ledger. Every change to stock is a recorded movement: opening balance, purchase, production, sale, waste, expiry, adjustment. Stock can never be sold that you do not have. See How to check stock levels.
• Weighted-average costing. Every time stock arrives at a new price, Jogan re-averages what that item costs you. Nothing to type. See How Jogan works out cost.
• Recipes. Write down once what goes into one batch of a product. The recipe prices itself from today's ingredient costs. See How to set up a recipe.
• Production. Run a recipe: components come out of stock, the finished good goes in at its real rolled-up cost. See How to run production.
• Sales. Pick items and a price. Stock comes down, profit is worked out at true cost, and an invoice is ready. See How to record a sale.
• Batches and expiry. Perishable stock is tracked in dated batches, the oldest batch is used first, you are warned 30 days ahead, and expired stock can be written off. See How expiry tracking works.
• Reports. Sales, profit by product, inventory value, low stock, stock movements and expiry, over any date range. See How to read your reports.
• Excel import. Bring in the items, recipes and opening stock you already keep in a spreadsheet. See How to import from Excel.

What Jogan is not

Jogan is focused. It is not a full accounting package, a point-of-sale till, a payroll system or a customer relationship tool. It does inventory, recipe costing, production, sales and reporting well, and stays out of the way of anything else you use.

How it is set up

Each business gets its own workspace at its own address, for example yourbusiness.jogan.cloud. Your team signs in there with individual accounts and roles. Creating a workspace takes about a minute and starts a free trial with no card. See How to create your workspace and Pricing and plans.