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# Add flowers and hard goods to a recipe

The **Flowers & Hard Goods** section defines what one recipe uses. Flowers include floral and foliage items. Hard goods include containers, mechanics, and other non-floral items used with the design.

These items help FlowerBuddy calculate the recipe's cost and suggested price, prepare event purchasing needs, and show the production team what is required.

An expanded recipe keeps its total Cost, Price, and Profit above the per-design flower and hard-good rows. Each row identifies the item, quantity, unit, planning cost, and calculated retail value.

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## Add or copy items

1. Open the event and select **Recipes**.
2. Expand the recipe, then expand **Flowers & Hard Goods**.
3. Select **Flower** in the Flowers list or **Hard Good** in the Hard Goods list.
4. Select one or more items, then add them to the recipe.
5. Set the quantity for each item.

Use the copy control when another event recipe already has the flower or hard-good list you need. Choose the source recipe carefully. If the destination already contains items of that type, confirming the copy overwrites that entire flower or hard-good list.

## Understand quantities and units

An item quantity describes what one unit of the recipe uses. For example, if one bouquet uses 18 stems and the recipe quantity is six, the event needs six bouquets built from that per-bouquet recipe.

A flower's unit explains what one quantity means, such as a stem. The unit is shared data. Changing it changes the unit's meaning wherever that flower is used, but FlowerBuddy does not automatically convert existing quantities or prices. Check affected recipes before changing a shared unit.

For recipes inside a group, the group quantity normally multiplies the quantities of the recipes and items inside it. A group can also use an advanced decoupled quantity mode. See [Use recipe groups](/reference/event-page/recipes/use-recipe-groups.md) before interpreting a grouped recipe's event total.

## Choose how a hard good is sourced and handled

Hard goods have two separate choices:

* The source choice tells FlowerBuddy whether the item comes from **Inventory**, will be a **Purchase**, or will be a **Rent** for this event.
* The client-handling choice tells FlowerBuddy whether the item is rented or sold to the client.

For example, a florist might purchase a container for the event but rent it to the client. These choices answer different questions and do not need to match.

When an inventory-sourced hard good is not in Inventory, or not enough is available, FlowerBuddy can show an inventory warning beside the item.

## Review item costs and retail values

Each row shows cost and retail information. Depending on workspace display settings, those columns may show a per-unit value or the row total. Read the column heading before comparing items.

The cost is the planning price used to estimate this recipe. It is not necessarily the price of a later purchase order. A purchase order records a particular purchase, while the recipe cost is the assumption used during planning.

If an item has no cost, select the warning beside it and enter the planning price the recipe should use. The warning on the **Recipes** tab clears after every flower and hard good in the affected recipe has a usable cost.

Reorder items when production order matters, or remove an item that does not belong in the design. Finish by checking the flower total, hard-good total, and the recipe's updated Cost, suggested price, and Profit.