Use manual pricing and stay aware of profitability alerts in your recipes
Summary
FlowerBuddy allows you to manually set the price of a recipe card without building out a full list of stems. This flexibility is helpful when pricing decisions are made in advance or without detailed breakdowns. However, when recipes are eventually built out with stems and hard goods, FlowerBuddy uses your pricing formula to calculate cost and profit—and it will alert you if profit margins are too low. This article explains how manual pricing works and how to respond to margin warnings.
Instructions
Open the Recipes tab of your event.
Manually set a price without a recipe:
Click directly into the Price field on a recipe card.
Enter the amount you'd like to charge the client.
You can send a proposal without having added any stems or other recipe details.
What happens when you add a recipe later:
Adding stems will update the Cost and Profit calculations automatically.
The manually set Price will remain fixed unless you change it.
How margin warnings work:
If the cost exceeds the profit margin recommended by your pricing formula, FlowerBuddy will alert you.
The recipe card will be highlighted in red with a red triangle warning.
A banner at the top of the Recipes tab will indicate how many items are priced below recommendation.
View and respond to warnings:
Click the red warning banner to see which items are underpriced.
Click the red triangle icon on a card to see how far off the pricing is and your options.
You can choose to reset the price to the recommended formula amount.
Or expand the recipe and adjust ingredients to bring cost and profit back in line.