What things cost to make.
View All TagsBefore something is a product it is an idea, and finding out whether it works costs real wax. Prototyping is where those ideas live: a recipe without the commercial half (no packaging, no channel prices), the samples you actually poured, and what every attempt cost.
When an idea works you promote it to a product card; when it does not, you reject it and the cost is still on record.
A melter, a bench scale, a label printer: things you own and keep are not stock, and now they are not treated like it. Each item has its own record under Assets: what it cost, how much it has depreciated, what it is worth now, and, when it finally goes, why.
Depreciation is straight-line and charged monthly. One button catches every item up to the end of last month, and a month is never charged twice. A tool bought on the same receipt as your materials becomes an asset rather than stock.
