Nodus Bakery Quote & Profit Advisor

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Getting a custom cake or catering quote wrong quietly eats your margin — undercharge and you're baking for free; overcharge blind and you lose the order. The Nodus Bakery Quote & Profit Advisor — Home Bakery and Custom Cake Edition — turns your real ingredient, labour, utility and overhead costs into a defensible price and a professional quote in minutes, whether you sell celebration cakes, cupcakes, cookies, bread, pastries or dessert boxes. An 11-section guided Bakery Setup captures your pricing targets, labour rates, overhead allocation, utility running costs, sales-channel fees (Direct, Etsy, Shopify, your own website, craft markets, wholesale, catering and more), delivery, rush-order and deposit rules, and tax treatment — sensible defaults are pre-filled, so you only change what's different for your bakery. Build an Ingredient Library of up to 200 ingredients with automatic pack-price-to-unit conversion and waste %, then turn them into up to 100 recipes (600 ingredient lines) and 200 reusable components with full labour and utility costing. Every product gets a four-price ladder — break-even, minimum acceptable, target-margin and recommended commercial price — plus wholesale figures, your maximum safe discount and expected monthly profit. Got a custom-order enquiry? The Quote Builder handles up to 100 open quotes at once: pick a base product, capture the customer and event details, set one of five design-complexity levels, and it calculates a recommended deposit, balance and validity date automatically. The client-facing Customer Quotation report is polished and shows none of your internal costs. The Profit Advisor is the part that catches what busy bakers miss: a 24-rule plain-language decision engine that reads every product and quote and returns one primary recommended action — the problem, why it matters, what to do and the expected result — plus up to three supporting recommendations. A Dashboard, Portfolio view and 12 print-ready reports round out the system, and a fully worked Example Bakery (Lievito Madre Home Bakery, Florence) lets you explore every screen before you enter a single number of your own. Most bakers go from a blank workbook to their first fully priced product in under an hour. This is a distinct, narrower tool than the Complete Bakery Business Toolkit — it does not replace it. Where that toolkit runs your bakery's day-to-day operations, inventory and P&L, this one is purpose-built for one job: costing and quoting, especially for custom orders. No macros, no plugins, no internet connection needed — all data stays inside the workbook. This is a decision-support tool only: not legal, tax, accounting, financial, food-safety, allergen-compliance or nutrition advice, and not a guarantee of sales or profit.