Ingredient Sales

Some businesses don't only cook their ingredients — they sell them: a commissary supplying sister brands, a butchery counter at the front of the restaurant, a mart selling flour by the bag. Ingredient sales is a direct sales channel for raw materials, separate from the menu POS.

What it is#

A sales flow where the ingredients themselves are the items: pick ingredient, quantity, price — invoice, payment, done. Stock decreases from the selling location like any consumption, valued by your costing method, and the sale posts to the ledger like any revenue.

Sell returns mirror it — ingredient stock comes back, the customer's account is credited, and the return is reported alongside sales.

Its own reporting#

The channel carries a parallel report family so ingredient trading reads separately from restaurant sales: invoice-wise, date-wise and item-wise sell reports, payment reports, a register view, and its own profit & loss — the margin on trading flour is a different business question than the margin on pizzas, and the reports keep them apart.

Enabling it#

Ingredient sales is enabled per business — most restaurants never see it, and shouldn't. If you supply sister businesses regularly, also look at transfers (for stock staying inside the company) versus ingredient sales (for stock leaving to a separate legal entity) — the right tool depends on who owns the receiving kitchen.