# How to finish your products

A product is what you sell: a recipe or one of its outputs, put in a package, at a price. Prophitable adds the recipe and the packaging into a total cost per unit, and shows your profit on every one you sell.

Source: https://www.prophitable.io/help/cost/products (updated 2026-10-29)

## Add a product

1. Go to **Products** and click **Add Product**.
2. Under **Product Information**, enter the **Name**, the **Shelf Life** and the **Price** you sell it for. SKU, Category, Notes and Description are optional.
3. Under **Recipes**, click **+** and pick what goes inside:
   - an **output**, like a truffle, and how many go in one product
   - or a **Portions** recipe, and how much of it by weight

   ![The Recipes card: 25 truffles, 1,175 g, $18.72](https://www.prophitable.io/_astro/products-recipes.ukm-0RnE.png)

4. Under **Packaging**, click **+** and pick the package it goes in.

   ![The Packaging card: one truffle case at $2.47](https://www.prophitable.io/_astro/products-packaging.BfdtU6FQ.png)

5. If packing the product takes time of its own, turn on **Time to Package Product** and add the steps.
6. Click **Save**. If your plan includes online ordering, the button reads **Save as Draft** on a new product (more below).

A published product needs a name, a price above $0, a shelf life, a recipe or output, and a package, each with a quantity. Save won't publish it without them.

If your plan includes online ordering, a new product starts as a draft, which only needs a name. **Save as Draft** keeps it to yourself while you finish it, and **Save & Publish** puts it on your customers' menu.

## What you'll see

The bottom of **Product Information** shows the **Total Cost / Unit** and the **Unit Profit**, with your margin beside it. This product is 25 truffles ($18.72) in a truffle case ($2.47), so it costs **$21.18** to make. At $70.00 it makes **$48.82** a case, a 70% margin.

![The bottom of Product Information for a truffle case: Total Cost / Unit $21.18, Unit Profit +$48.82 (70%)](https://www.prophitable.io/_astro/products-info.CdKAGASB.png)

> [!TIP]
> Each product's profit counts its ingredients, its packaging and the time it takes, and it updates when you change any of them. If a margin starts slipping, this is where you'll see it.

When a wage changes, or you change a price and click **Update All**, the product is re-costed and its profit updates with it.

## Selling the recipe exactly as it is?

If you made the recipe as a **Whole Item**, its product already exists. Saving the recipe made it. Open it from **Products** and add the price and packaging.

## Have a lot of products?

Click **Import** on the Products page and upload the spreadsheet you already keep. You'll see what it read and can fix anything before it's saved.