Manufacturing & bill of materials

Define a bill of materials per finished product and record production runs — Finocket consumes the raw-material stock and adds the finished goods at their rolled-up cost, optionally routed through named work centers for step-level costing.

If you make what you sell, Manufacturing turns raw materials into finished stock: define a bill of materials (BOM) — the recipe for a product — then record a production run, and Finocket draws the components out of stock and adds the finished goods at their rolled-up cost.

What is a bill of materials (BOM)?

A BOM is the recipe: the finished product, how many units one run yields (the output quantity), and each component with the quantity it needs. Example — 1 batch of Wooden chair (output 10) needs 20 legs, 10 seats, 2 litres of polish. Finocket shows the rolled-up standard cost per finished unit — the sum of component costs — as you build the BOM.

Set it up

It's an optional module: turn on Manufacturing under Profile → Modules. It builds on Inventory, so the items involved should have stock tracking on. On the Manufacturing screen, create a BOM per finished product: pick the product, set the output quantity, add components with quantities.

Record a production run

Under Production, pick a BOM.
Enter how many you made and the date.
Save. Finocket consumes the components — a negative stock movement per raw material, scaled to the quantity produced — and adds the finished goods as a positive movement at the rolled-up cost, so your stock valuation stays right.

Every movement appears in the product's history on the Inventory screen, labelled Manufactured and Consumed — full traceability from raw material to finished shelf.

Work centers & routing (optional)

For multi-step making, you can route a BOM through named work centers — a saw, a bench, a polishing team — each with an hourly cost. On the Work centers tab, add a centre and set its cost per hour. Then, on a BOM, open Routing and add ordered steps: for each step pick the work center, the expected minutes, and which components it draws.

Each step consumes its own components at that step; anything you don't assign to a step is drawn at the final step (so nothing is missed).
Finished goods are produced only at the final step.
Each step's labour = its minutes × the work center's rate; the steps' labour plus the material rolls into the run cost and the finished-goods value. When you record a routed run you can enter the actual minutes per step.

Total materials drawn across the steps always equal what the BOM needs — routing never creates or loses material, it just shows where the cost builds up. A BOM with no routing runs exactly as before, in one step.

Good to know

The finished cost is a standard cost rolled up from each component's rate, plus any routing labour — a practical estimate, not a full work-in-progress ledger or shop-floor scheduler. Only stock-tracked items move; a component or finished product without inventory tracking simply isn't counted.

Access & control

Owners and assistants define BOMs and record runs; an invited accountant sees BOMs, runs and the resulting movements read-only. Enable the module under Profile → Modules.

Frequently asked questions

What is a bill of materials with an example?

The list of components and quantities needed to make a finished product — e.g. one batch of 10 chairs needs 20 legs, 10 seats and 2 litres of polish. In Finocket the BOM also carries the output quantity and rolls up the per-unit cost automatically.

How do I manage raw material stock for production?

Track your raw materials in Inventory, buy them in via expenses (Stock items section), then record production runs against a BOM — Finocket consumes the materials and adds finished goods in one save, with every movement in the item ledgers.

How are my finished goods valued?

At the BOM's rolled-up standard cost — the sum of component costs per unit, plus any routing labour — which flows into the weighted-average valuation your reports use.

What are work centers and routing?

Optional. Route a BOM through ordered steps at named work centers (a saw, a bench, a team), each with an hourly cost. Each step draws its own components; finished goods appear only at the final step; and each step's labour (minutes × the work center's rate) rolls into the finished cost. Components you don't assign to a step are drawn at the final step, so the totals always match the BOM — routing never creates or loses material. A BOM with no routing runs exactly as before.

Do I need Inventory turned on to use Manufacturing?

Yes — Manufacturing moves stock, so the components and finished products involved should have Track inventory on. Untracked items are ignored by runs.

Clients, projects and invoices

Add clients with GSTIN + state auto-fill. Send invoices — tax invoice, bill of supply, export invoice, receipt or credit note — start from an estimate, or split an invoice into a deposit + milestone schedule.

Estimates, deposits and payment schedules

Send an EST-numbered estimate with a hosted accept link — your client accepts with a typed name recorded with a timestamp — convert it to an invoice in one tap, and collect through a deposit or milestone schedule that chases itself.

Progress billing and invoice templates

Bill an estimate, sales order or retainer in tranches — by percentage or amount — with a running billed/remaining tally that can never over-bill the job to the paisa, and pick from three invoice PDF templates that each keep your show-on-PDF custom fields.