Change in Management

In late 2007, Rob Fairweather retired as a developer and in 2008 will continue only in an advisory capacity, assisting Martin to keep the software running smoothly.

Facilities to help you to improve your sales volume or sales margins.

• Feb 2005. A Point Of Sale display poster in either A4 or A3 format, permitting you to very easily produce a poster on any of your products, include short pertinent sales text, and automatically display the product nutrient, ingredient and allergenic properties. Your company logo is also included for display.
• Improved and more precise product costing calculations. Labour costs have been removed from plant overheads, and are now customisable (staff labour rate and time taken to produce each product is now editable per product.) This facility should be good news for catering businesses!
• We've also introduced a custom search and reporting screen that permits you to quickly generate a list of your products that DO NOT contain any of a list of selected ingredients or allergens. This enables you to respond very rapidly to client requests for products that are free of particular allergens. A printed report may be quickly generated for any requesting client .
• May 2005. Most recently two new reports have been added. (You'll notice that the Utilities menu has been split, and now there's a new entry of "Reports" in the main menu. The new reports allow users to print in Ingredient order or Supplier order, lists of all ingredients currently held in the inventory, the current buy quantity, and the cost per kilo for each item. A very handy facility for checking off required supplies etc. and during stock-take.
• BIASA members have recently asked for a new report to be added. The Product Sales Margins report lists your recipes (products) in alphabetic order, displaying the default batch weight, cost price per item, selling price and margin per item. A great way to keep tabs on your business viability! To enable this report, we've added an entry field in the Ingredients screen so that you can enter your selling price. (Added in version 2.2.4).
• With the release of versions 2.2.4 and 5, the documentation for dRecipe has been brought right up to date. The big change is that it has now been split into 19 separate documents so that when information in one area is changed, you only have to download that one, and not the whole lot! This makes keeping up to date a lot easier for users with dial-up web connections. Download the files to your dRecipe\Docs folder.

If you have any ideas on ways we could improve dRecipe to help you with the way that you do business, contact us or phone us at (08) 8552 5691.