Why Use DoBetter?
Growing food businesses eventually reach a point where spreadsheets and paper records stop making things easier. DoBetter connects the information you already need to manage — production, inventory, recipes, costs, sales and lot records — so you can spend less time reconstructing what happened and more time running the business.
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1. Trace Every Lot With Confidence
When a retailer, inspector, supplier or customer asks about a product, you should be able to find the answer without digging through boxes of paperwork or several spreadsheets.
DoBetter helps you connect production batches with the ingredients that went into them and the finished products that came out.
DoBetter supports the Department of Agriculture Lot Tracing Requirements.
You can maintain the information needed to trace:
Ingredient → Production Batch → Finished Lot → Customer
That makes it much easier to investigate production issues and prepare for a possible product recall.
DoBetter helps you:
- Record production batches and lot numbers
- Connect production to ingredient information
- Maintain finished-product lot records
- Organize production records for easier retrieval
- Trace product forward and backward when questions arise
Otherfoods Kitchen Food Production Guide: Lot Tracing for Small Food Producers
2. See the Business in One Simple Dashboard
Running a food business shouldn’t require opening five different systems just to understand how you’re doing.
DoBetter brings important operating and financial information together so you can quickly see what is happening in your business.
See sales, expenses, product performance and other key information without manually assembling another spreadsheet.
Answer questions like:
- What are my top-selling products?
- What are my total sales?
- What am I spending?
- Which products are driving the business?
- Where should I be paying attention?
The goal isn’t more reports.
The goal is being able to understand your business quickly enough to make better decisions.
3. Know What Your Products Really Cost
You know what you charge for your product.
But do you know what it costs you to make it today?
Ingredient prices change. Packaging costs change. Recipe yields change.
DoBetter’s recipe costing and recipe explosion capabilities allow you to break a finished product into the ingredients that go into it and calculate the resulting Cost of Goods Sold.
Instead of maintaining disconnected costing spreadsheets, your recipes, ingredients and product costs can work together.
Better product costing helps you:
- Understand your true COGS
- Review costs as ingredient prices change
- Compare costs against selling prices
- Make better wholesale pricing decisions
- Identify products with weak margins
Otherfoods Kitchen Food Production Guide: Food Cost (COGS)
4. Stop Entering the Same Sales Data Twice
Your Point of Sale already knows what you’ve sold.
You shouldn’t have to manually enter that information into another system just to analyze your food business.
DoBetter can bring sales information from your Point of Sale into the production-management system.
That means your sales data can become part of the same picture as your products, production, inventory and financial information.
Instead of:
POS → Export → Spreadsheet → Reformat → Enter Somewhere Else
you move toward:
POS → DoBetter → Business Information
Less duplicate entry means less administrative work and fewer opportunities for mistakes.
5. Keep Inventory Connected to Production
Food inventory is different from simply counting boxes sitting on a shelf.
When you make finished products, ingredients are consumed.
DoBetter connects recipes, ingredients and production so inventory can reflect what’s actually happening in your kitchen.
If you make 100 units of a product, the ingredients used to make those units should affect ingredient inventory while the finished products become available inventory.
Better inventory control helps you:
- Know what ingredients you have
- See what production is consuming
- Monitor finished products
- Reduce surprise shortages
- Make better purchasing decisions
- Connect inventory to recipes and production
Your Food Business Is Connected. Your Software Should Be Too.
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Recipe
What should go into the product.
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Ingredients
What you currently have available.
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Batch Production
What you actually made.
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Sales
What customers actually bought.
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Business Results
What it cost and how the product performed.
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DoBetter connects these parts of your operation instead of forcing you to maintain separate versions of the same information in different spreadsheets and systems.
Built for the Stage Between Spreadsheets and a Complicated ERP
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DoBetter isn’t designed for a multinational food manufacturer running ten factories.
It’s built for small and growing food producers who need better systems without taking on the cost and complexity of a large manufacturing ERP system.
DoBetter may be a good fit if:
- You’ve outgrown production spreadsheets
- You’re starting to sell wholesale
- You need better lot and batch records
- You’re struggling to understand product costs
- Inventory is becoming difficult to manage
- The same information exists in several different systems
- You’re spending too much time manually putting reports together
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If spreadsheets worked when you were small but are becoming harder to manage as you grow, that’s exactly the problem DoBetter is intended to solve.
Built From Real Food Production Experience
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Software built around the way food producers actually work.
DoBetter comes from Otherfoods Kitchen, a working food-production environment.
The system wasn’t created by starting with generic accounting or inventory software and trying to force food production into it.
It was built around real production questions:
What are we making?
What ingredients did we use?
What did it cost?
What lot did it come from?
Where did it go?
What is selling?
Are we actually making money on it?
DoBetter brings those answers together.