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BOM cards (bills of materials)

A BOM card is the recipe for something you make — what materials and/or components go into it, in what quantity, and what it costs. Find them under BOM Cards.

Product cards vs. item cards​

  • A product card is a sellable finished good.
  • An item card is a component or semi-finished part used inside other cards (mark a card as a component with the "is item" toggle).

A product's composition can reference both materials and other item cards, so multi-level BOMs (a product made of components, each made of materials) are supported.

Composition​

Each composition line has:

  • A material or a component item
  • Quantity needed per unit produced
  • A loss coefficient (1.0 = no loss; higher values account for technological waste, e.g. trimming or shrinkage)
  • An optional manufacturing step label (e.g. "cutting", "sewing", "finishing")

Versions​

BOM cards are versioned. Once a version has been used in actual production, its composition and key fields lock — create a new version instead of editing it, so historical production records keep referencing the recipe that was actually used at the time. You can compare any two versions side by side to see exactly what changed (materials, quantities, prices, margin).

Costing​

  • Other expenses — fixed monetary costs per unit, or a percentage of cost / of final price (e.g. packaging labor, marketplace fees)
  • Postal materials — shipping/packaging materials per sales channel, pulled from material stock but kept separate from the product's own composition
  • Prices & margin — per sales channel, showing cost + other expenses + postal materials + channel commission, so you see real margin per channel, not just list price
  • Material requirements — click Calculate to see exactly how much of each material is needed per unit, losses included

Descriptions & photos​

Each product card can have a description and multiple photos, with one marked as primary. These feed the product cards your team sees in the app and are also what gets synced to Shopify if Shopify sync is enabled for product data and photos.

Import/export​

BOM cards (both product and item cards) can be bulk-imported or exported via Excel.