Know What Every Product Really Costs
Manage Materials, build Recipes and Builds, create Products, monitor supplier prices, scale production, and protect your margins from one connected platform.
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Built for businesses that make products
CostFoundry adapts to the terminology and workflows used across different industries.
Food & Beverage
- Bakeries
- Catering companies
- Meal-prep businesses
- Food manufacturers
- Beverage producers
Craft Businesses
- 3D-printing businesses
- Candle makers
- Soap makers
- Woodworkers
- Jewelry makers
Manufacturing & Assembly
- Small manufacturers
- Subscription-box companies
- Product assemblers
- Kit builders
- Custom-product businesses
From supplier price list to profitable Product
CostFoundry connects each step of your costing and production workflow.
Import Materials
Upload supplier files or add Materials manually. Review pack sizes, units, prices, and supplier details before importing.
Build Recipes and Builds
Define Materials, quantities, output, direct costs, and components for repeatable builds.
Create Products
Connect Recipes or Builds, Packaging, pricing, UPCs, and Product details in one finished record.
Scale Production
Create Production Plans for multiple Recipes, Builds, and Products and consolidate all purchase requirements.
Review Costs and Margins
Track Cost per Unit, Gross Profit, Gross Margin, Markup, and Cost Categories.
Make Better Decisions
Use Reports, price-change analysis, Version History, and exports to act with confidence.
Import Materials
Upload supplier files or add Materials manually. Review pack sizes, units, prices, and supplier details before importing.
Build Recipes and Builds
Define Materials, quantities, output, direct costs, and components for repeatable builds.
Create Products
Connect Recipes or Builds, Packaging, pricing, UPCs, and Product details in one finished record.
Scale Production
Create Production Plans for multiple Recipes, Builds, and Products and consolidate all purchase requirements.
Review Costs and Margins
Track Cost per Unit, Gross Profit, Gross Margin, Markup, and Cost Categories.
Make Better Decisions
Use Reports, price-change analysis, Version History, and exports to act with confidence.
Turn supplier files into usable cost data
Upload CSV, XLS, XLSX, or PDF supplier files. Review extracted rows, confirm field mappings, normalize units, interpret pack sizes, and save supplier layouts for future imports.
- CSV, XLS, XLSX, and PDF support
- Raw extraction review
- Column mapping confirmation
- Pack and case-size parsing
- Unit normalization
- Supplier mapping reuse
- Duplicate and warning review
Build accurate costs from Materials to finished Products
Create Recipes and Builds for mixtures, components, and subassemblies. Then connect them to Products with Packaging, Sale Price, UPCs, and profitability details.
- Materials and quantities
- Material quantities and units
- Yield and waste
- Packaging
- Labor
- Distribution
- Cost per Unit
- Gross Margin and Markup
- Recipe and Build to Product relationships
Scale multiple Products and Recipes in one Production Plan
Set different targets for multiple Recipes, Builds, and Products, expand nested components, and consolidate all Material requirements into one purchase list.
- Multi-item scaling
- Individual target quantities
- Nested components
- Consolidated Material requirements
- Packaging requirements
- Case rounding
- Estimated purchase cost
- Revenue and Gross Profit
- Excel and web reports
See exactly what a supplier price change affects
Track Material price increases and decreases, identify affected Recipes, Builds, and Products, and understand the impact on Cost per Unit and Gross Margin.
- Material price history
- Affected Recipes and Builds
- Affected Products
- Cost impact
- Margin impact
- Pricing review recommendations
- Supplier comparison
- Replacement Materials
Set prices with the full cost picture in view
Review Product Cost, Sale Price, Gross Profit, Gross Margin, Markup, Cost %, and recommended pricing before making changes.
- Pricing Simulator
- Target Gross Margin
- Target Material Cost %
- Cost-plus pricing
- Recommended Price
- Cost Breakdown
- Revenue impact
- Break-even analysis
- Psychological pricing review
Turn cost data into clear business decisions
Analyze Product profitability, Recipe and Build costs, supplier spending, Material price trends, data quality, and margin performance.
- Product performance
- Recipe and Build comparison
- Material cost trends
- Supplier analysis
- Price-change impact
- Packaging and labor analysis
- Data-quality reporting
- Saved Reports
- Excel, PDF, print, and CSV export
More tools that keep your costs accurate
Unit Conversions
Use standard, custom, and Material-specific conversions for weights, volumes, counts, scoops, trays, bundles, and other company measurements.
Version History
Save meaningful revisions, compare changes, restore prior versions, and keep Recipe, Build, and Product history organized.
Packaging Management
Track boxes, bags, jars, labels, inserts, containers, and other Packaging separately from Material costs.
Cost Categories
Organize direct costs, Packaging, labor, distribution, and other cost types using clear categories.
Material Replacement
Replace a Material across affected Recipes, Builds, and Products while reviewing the cost impact before applying changes.
Production Plans
Save, reopen, duplicate, rename, and export multi-item Production Plans.
Workspace Health
Identify missing prices, incomplete records, conversion issues, and other data-quality problems.
Learning Center
Use step-by-step guides, Quick Access links, and industry-aware education to learn CostFoundry faster.
Cloud Access
Access your workspace, Recipes and Builds, Products, supplier files, reports, and documents from anywhere.
One platform, different industry workflows
The same costing engine adapts to the language and production methods used by different businesses.
Food & Beverage
Manage Recipes, Ingredients, yield, portions, Packaging, labor, and food cost using terminology familiar to food producers.
Craft Businesses
Track Materials, batch output, machine time, labor, Packaging, and unit cost for handmade and small-batch Products.
Manufacturing & Assembly
Manage components, subassemblies, Bills of Materials, Production Plans, kits, and consolidated purchasing.
A workspace built for real cost decisions
See how Materials, Recipes and Builds, Products, Production Plans, pricing, and Reports stay connected.
See workspace health, cost trends, price changes, Quick Actions, and recommended next steps.
What CostFoundry helps you do
Know your true Cost per Unit
Include Materials, Packaging, labor, distribution, and other direct costs.
Respond faster to supplier increases
See affected Recipes, Builds, Products, costs, and margins.
Stop underpricing Products
Use Pricing Simulator, recommended prices, Gross Margin, and Markup.
Plan production with confidence
Scale multiple items and consolidate Material purchasing.
Keep cost history organized
Use Version History and saved Production Plans.
Make reporting easier
Export clear Excel, PDF, print, and CSV reports.
One plan. Every core feature.
Full access to current core features. No confusing tiers.
Standard
Includes 2 seats · $27 per seat/month
Includes 2 seats · $249.5 per seat/year
$41.58/mo equivalent for 2 seats
- Unlimited Materials, Packaging, Recipes and Builds, and Products
- Smart Import (CSV, XLS, XLSX, PDF)
- Pricing and margin tools
- Scaling and Production Plans
- Reports and exports
- Version History
- Learning Center
Ready to take control of your product costs?
Build accurate Recipes and Builds, create profitable Products, plan production, and make decisions using cost data you can trust.
Built to help product-based businesses understand true costs and protect margins.