Learn MakrBee
Articles and videos, in the order you'd actually build your business in MakrBee - vendor → material → recipe → batch → sale → report.
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The two things worth doing before anything else: understand why revenue and profit aren't the same number, then get your account set up in five minutes flat.
Why Most Makers Don't Actually Know Their Profit
Revenue isn't profit, and most spreadsheets can't tell the difference. Here's where a sale's real cost actually hides.
- The "I sold $40 worth, so I made money" trap
- What actually eats a sale: ingredients, packaging, marketplace fees, shipping, labor, waste
- Worked example: a $28 candle that nets $4, not $14
- Why spreadsheets break down past a handful of SKUs
The 2 Minute MakrBee Setup
Get a brand-new signup from account creation to a correctly-configured business in one sitting.
- Creating your account and verifying your email
- Business setup: name, business type, currency, timezone, fiscal year start
- A first look at the empty dashboard — what fills in once real data exists
Your Cost Foundation
The single most important module. This is the sequence the app itself enforces — vendor, then material, then product, then recipe — a recipe can't exist without a product to attach to (it's a strict one-to-one), so the product has to come first. Every profit number downstream depends on getting this order right
Adding Your Vendors
Set up the vendors you buy from — each one its own record in MakrBee, not just a label on a material.
- Why a vendor is its own record, not just a text field on a material
- Adding a vendor's name, contact person, email, and phone number
- How this sets up the next step: assigning a material's default vendor, which unlocks purchase order tracking and the AI Advisor's lead-time math
Setting Up Materials: Ingredients & Packaging
Build a materials list of everything that goes into making your products -- ingredients and packaging -- with reorder thresholds that will …
- Ingredient materials vs. packaging materials — why the distinction matters
- Units of measure, kept consistent with how a recipe will use them
- Reorder threshold — the number that powers low-stock alerts and AI reorder recommendations
Recording a Purchase
Record a purchase three ways — manually, via AI invoice extraction, or bulk CSV import — and see your ingredient and packaging …
- The three ways to record a purchase in MakrBee: manual entry, AI invoice extraction, and bulk CSV import
- Adding line items with vendor lot codes and expiration dates for full traceability
- How receiving a purchase updates your ingredient and packaging stock automatically
- Reading inventory costs and low stock alerts right after a purchase lands
- Making a manual quantity adjustment when your physical count doesn't match the app
Adding Your Products & Setting Prices
Add a product with its price, cost, photos, and variants — then bulk-import the rest from CSV and bundle them into collections.
- Creating a product with its price, estimated cost, photos, and shelf life
- Setting up product variants for the same item sold in different sizes or counts
- Bulk-importing products from CSV with column mapping
- Reviewing imported stock and costs before they go live
- Building a bundle and adding its component products and quantities