For granola makers

The oats are cheap. The almonds are the business.

Granola looks like an oat product and costs like a nut product: the almonds, pecans, and seeds run two-thirds of every batch while the oats round to pocket change. Add stand-up pouches, labels, and a market table price the customer compares to the grocery aisle, and the margin lives or dies on the mix. MadeKeeper prices the batch the way it's actually built.

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How MadeKeeper maps to your sheet pans

Ingredients by the poundOats by the 25-lb bag, almonds at their painful real price, honey by the jug — the batch recipe pulls each at cost, so the mix's economics stay visible.

The oven batch is the unitTwo sheet-pan rounds fill fourteen bags. One batch entry costs them all, and the pantry counts run down as markets and orders pull bags out.

Recipe changes reprice instantlySwap pecans for sunflower seeds and the per-bag cost drops 60 cents on the spot — menu decisions with the money math attached.

Markets, subscriptions, and the coffee shopSaturday tables, a monthly granola subscription, and the café wholesale account each run their own channel at their own price.

One oven batch, to the penny

Say you bake a batch that fills 14 12-oz bags:

7 lb oats @ $1.05/lb$7.35
3 lb almonds and pecans @ $5.40/lb$16.20
1.5 lb honey @ $3.80/lb$5.70
Oil, vanilla, and salt$2.10
Stand-up pouches and labels, 14 @ 38¢$5.32

Batch cost — $2.62 a bag$36.67

At $9 a bag you keep $6.38 — and the ledger shows the nuts took $16.20 of the batch while the oats took $7.35. That's the number to stare at before reformulating, and before agreeing to the café's wholesale ask.

Granola is a cottage food staple in most states — MadeKeeper keeps the batch records, dates, and label information cottage paperwork asks about, in the app instead of a binder; your state's list and caps stay yours to check.

Straight about what's live

Materials and true cost per piece, products (in bulk or one-of-a-kind), sales that drain stock, the was-this-fair-worth-it event math, mileage, expenses, and the year-end tax packet — all in the app today. Etsy and Square sync, your own storefront, a booth card reader, and shipping labels are building, shaped with founding makers. Nothing above describes a feature that doesn't exist without saying so. See the full live-vs-building list →

Questions granola makers ask

How do I compete with grocery-store granola prices?

You don't — you price as the small-batch product you are and let the ingredient list argue for you. What MadeKeeper adds is the floor: your real $2.62 per bag says exactly how low a market-day discount can go before you're paying people to take it.

What about flavor variations?

Each flavor is a recipe variant with its own mix cost — the chocolate-cherry runs a dollar more per bag than the classic, and now both prices know it.

Can I track a subscription or standing orders?

Yes — recurring orders run as their own channel against each batch. The subscription's steady dozen bags a month is the quiet backbone many granola businesses don't realize they have until they see it charted.

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