SendOrder · Costing Tool

Work backwards from your sales.

Start with what you actually take each week. Set aside labour, rent, outgoings, a healthy profit and a tax buffer — whatever's left is your real budget for cost of goods. This is an estimate to guide pricing and budgeting decisions, not tax or financial advice.

Weekly sales

What you actually bring in over a typical trading week, before any costs come out.

$

Fixed weekly costs

Costs that stay roughly the same regardless of how much you cook or sell.

$
Wages, super, on-costs across the week.
$
Kitchen, site or venue rent for the week.
$
Power, gas, insurance, subscriptions, admin, loan repayments — anything else that leaves the account weekly.

Profit & tax buffer

Set these aside deliberately, not as an afterthought.

Target profit margin The healthy margin you want to actually keep, as a % of sales.
%
Tax reserve A cash-flow buffer set aside from sales for GST and income tax.
%
These two are estimates for budgeting and cash-flow discipline — your actual tax liability depends on your structure, deductions and turnover. Confirm the right % with your accountant or bookkeeper.

Weekly waterfall

Per trading week
Sales revenue$0.00
− Labour$0.00
− Rent$0.00
− Outgoings$0.00
Before profit & tax $0.00
− Target profit (12%)$0.00
− Tax reserve (25%)$0.00
Left for cost of goods $0.00
— % of weekly sales
On track
Where every sales dollar goes
Rent
Labour
Outgoings
Profit
Tax
Cost of goods

Estimates only — a starting point for pricing and budgeting decisions, not financial or tax advice.

Your sales roadmap

Add 1–6 of your best sellers with their price. The first dish shows how many you'd need to sell to cover your whole $8,000 weekly target on its own — each dish after that automatically fills whatever's left. Edit any unit count to lock it in, and the dishes below it adjust to cover the remaining balance.

Dish / package Price Weekly units Per day Weekly revenue
Units auto-fill to cover the remaining balance — edit any of them to lock in your own number.
Weekly revenue covered $0.00

Where's the leak?

Each fixed cost measured against common hospitality benchmarks, as a % of your weekly sales.

Saved to your scenario list below.

Saved scenarios

Set up your numbers above, then save this scenario here — try a few variations (e.g. after a price rise, or with reduced hours) and download each one as a PDF.

⚠ Scenarios aren't stored anywhere — they only exist in this browser tab. Download the PDF for each one before you close or refresh this page, or they'll be lost.