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Know if your price is right

Enter a recipe once. Proof adds up flour, your time, oven wear and power. You see what each loaf costs you and what it earns at your price. No more wondering if $10 is too little.

The demo is a working bakery you can click around. No signup, nothing to install.

The Country Sourdough recipe with its levain sub-recipe, and its cost per loaf split into ingredients, labor, power and equipment.

Right now, you price by feel

  • Your loaf is $10 because that is what the market stand next to you charges.
  • Flour went up, and you are not sure what that did to your margin.
  • Your hours, and those 5 AM starts, never make it into the math.
  • You find out you are out of blueberries on bake day.

Proof shows the real cost of each loaf, what you keep at your price, and what is running low.

What you get

Recipes the way you write them

Build a recipe from ingredients and sub-recipes like your levain or starter. Set what one batch makes. Add process steps with minutes and the equipment each one uses. The same steps drive the bake plan.

  • Sub-recipes for levain, starter or a soaker
  • A bill of materials for the whole batch
  • Hands-on, waiting and baking steps, each with minutes and equipment
A recipe page: bill of materials with a levain sub-recipe, and five process steps with minutes and equipment.

Cost per loaf, all of it

Proof splits the cost of a loaf into four parts:

  • Ingredients, at what you really paid on average
  • Labor, from your hourly rate and the hands-on and baking minutes
  • Equipment wear, from what it cost and how long it lasts
  • Power, from its kilowatts and your electric rate

You see the margin at your sell price, and a suggested price for your target margin, 60% unless you change it.

Country Sourdough costs $2.97 a loaf. At $10 that is a 70% margin. The suggested price for a 60% margin is $7.42.

Inventory that keeps up

Log purchases as they come in. Proof keeps a weighted average cost, so the cost of each loaf follows real prices. Made a typo? Edit or delete the purchase and the numbers are rebuilt.

  • On hand and average cost for every ingredient
  • A reorder point for each one
  • Low and Out flags on your dashboard when stock reaches it
The inventory list with on hand, average cost and reorder point, with one ingredient low and one out.

Stock comes out when the batch is done

Finish a batch and Proof takes its ingredients out of stock, sub-recipes included. Counts, spoilage and spills go in as adjustments with a reason, so the history stays honest.

Bread flour history: used by two batches, one purchase that can be edited, and a count correction.

Your equipment, counted

List your ovens, mixers, proofers and fridges. Each one adds its wear and power to the recipes that use it, and the bake plan never books it for two steps at once.

A deck oven that cost $8,400, lasts 5 years and draws 9 kilowatts.

How it works

  1. Step 1

    Add your ingredients

    Start with flour, add-ins and bags, and log a first purchase.

  2. Step 2

    Write the recipe

    Ingredients, sub-recipes, yield and steps.

  3. Step 3

    Set your rates

    Your hourly rate, your power rate and your target margin.

  4. Step 4

    Bake and watch the numbers

    Stock comes out as batches finish.

Questions about recipes and costing

Something else? Email help@tryproof.io and a person will answer.

Do I have to enter every ingredient?
No. Start with what costs the most: flour, add-ins and packaging. Add the rest when you have time.
My flour price changes every order.
That is what the average cost is for. Each purchase blends into it, and the cost per loaf follows.
Does it count my time?
Yes, once you set an hourly rate in Settings. Proof counts the hands-on and baking minutes in each recipe. It starts at $0, so set it to see the full cost.
Will it text me when I am low on flour?
Not today. Low and Out flags show on your dashboard when an ingredient reaches its reorder point.
Which plan includes costing?
Microbakery and Bakery.
A scored sourdough loaf on a linen cloth

Price your bread with real numbers.

Click around a working bakery first. No signup. When you are ready, one flat price, no fee on your sales, and you can cancel anytime.