Starting from a starter pack

A starter pack is an optional running start. Pick what you make — bakery, candles, soap, coffee, jewelry, or laser engraving — and Batchnook seeds a few materials and a costed product or two, so you can watch the margin add up before you have entered anything of your own.

You can choose a pack the first time you set up, right from onboarding — or skip it and go straight to snapping a receipt. It is never in the way. Add one later any time under More ▸ Starter packs.

Applying a pack adds materials — each with a starter purchase, so it lands with a real on-hand and average cost — plus products with their recipes. They come in through the same screens you would use by hand, so the plan caps and unit checks all apply, and a pack always fits inside the Free plan.

The costs are a plausible starting point, not your numbers yet. Every price, quantity, and material is yours to change: edit one the moment a real receipt lands, archive anything you do not make, and the margins follow. A pack is a head start, never a claim about your shop.

A pack never overwrites what you already have. If a material or product of the same name is already in your library, Batchnook skips it — so applying a pack, or the same pack twice, only ever adds what is missing and never touches a number you have set.