For candle, soap & bath-and-body makers

Snap the receipt. Watch every product’s real margin update.

Batchnook keeps your real costs current. Snap a supplier receipt and every candle, soap, and bar recomputes its true cost and margin in front of you — so you price with numbers you trust, not a gut feeling.

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Free forever on 3 products and 3 receipt scans a month — no card, no countdown. Starter packs for candles, soap, bakery, coffee, and jewelry get you going in a tap.

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A candle-maker’s workbench in warm morning light — jars in rows, a pour pot, and a supplier receipt beside a phone.

How it works

It starts with a receipt and ends with numbers you can defend.

1
Snap the receipt
Photograph a supply receipt at the register or the trunk — one hand, offline is fine.
2
Review the lines
Batchnook reads each line; you check it before it counts. Nothing saves until you accept.
3
Watch the ripple
Accept, and every product’s real cost and margin recompute in front of you.
4
Log batches & orders
“Made 40 candles” updates stock and unit cost; orders track revenue and period COGS.
5
Export the reports
Tax-ready period COGS, valuation, and P&L-lite — average-cost method, disclosed.

The signature moment · the margin ripple

Beeswax just cost 8% more

Read from your receipt · $52.00 for 5 lb

Every product updates

Lavender candle44%41%↓ 3 pts
Cedar soy jar31%27%↓ 4 pts · getting thin
Botanical bar soap52%49%↓ 3 pts

One price change, every product re-costed — so you know which ones to reprice before the next market.

What it looks like in your hand

Review a receipt, watch margins ripple, and cost every batch — from the phone in your apron.

Reviewing a scanned supply receipt in the Batchnook app — each parsed line checked and matched before it counts. — Snap a supplier receipt — review each line before it counts.

The home screen in the Batchnook app — a margin-health strip over the workshop ledger, every product’s real margin at a glance. — One price change ripples out — every product re-costs at once.

A product’s live cost and margin in the Batchnook app — the recipe’s bill of materials and what each batch really costs. — See what each product really costs — and the margin you keep.

Built for the whole making loop

From the supply run to the report your accountant asks for.

The receipt is the input

Capture is built for the trunk and the checkout line: one-handed, a torch for dim garages, and it works with no signal. Batchnook reads the lines — you approve them. Nothing lands in your books until you say so.

Your true cost, always current

Every purchase updates each material’s moving-average cost, so a product’s cost reflects what you actually paid this month — not last year’s guess. Set a target margin, and Batchnook tells you the moment a receipt breaks it.

Batches and orders in seconds

Log “made 40 candles” and stock plus unit cost update at once. Record an order at a market booth in a couple of taps — revenue and period COGS track themselves. Batches and orders are never metered, on any plan.

Numbers your accountant will trust

Tax-ready reports — period COGS, inventory valuation, P&L-lite — by the average-cost method, disclosed. Marketplace fee presets keep your Etsy and Shopify math honest, and one-tap migration brings your spreadsheet in.

Hands pouring wax from a steel pitcher into glass jars on a scale, warm workshop light. — From the pour to the finished bar — the cost follows every step.

A craft-market stall table of soap bars and candles in neat rows, late-afternoon light. — To the market table — record the sale in a couple of taps.

Our promises to makers

Four promises, in writing.

The price you join at is yours.

The plan you join at is yours for as long as you keep it — and it keeps getting better at that price.

No order-line meters, ever.

Sell as much as you can make. We meter AI scans — our real cost — never your orders, transactions, or growth.

Your data walks free — export everything, always.

Export everything as JSON or CSV, free, on every tier, forever. Migration in and out — no lock-in in either direction.

Tax-ready numbers, never tax advice.

The average-cost method, disclosed on every report — defensible records. And we never sell filing or compliance advice.

An evening workshop — finished candle jars boxed for delivery by the door, warm terracotta glow.

Simple pricing. No surprises.

Free to start · Bench $19/mo · Studio $29/mo — batches and orders never metered. The first 100 makers join Bench at $15/mo for their first 12 months, then the $19/mo price they signed up under.

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