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Some recipes are not made in one go — a big batch is built up as several separate mixes, each one a bowl, a vat or a run through a mixer. When a product is set up for this, the ingredient breakdown on a batch stops asking for a single figure and instead asks for each mix by number: Mix 1, Mix 2 and so on, pre-filling what one mix should weigh and keeping the running total lined up with what the batch actually requires.

Where to find it: turned on per product, in Products › Finished Goods or Work in Progress › a product's Detail tab, under Batch Settings. It only appears when the account switch Batch Ingredient Quantity Breakdown is on, in Account Settings. Once set up, mixes show on that product's batches wherever the ingredient breakdown is recorded — the classic batch screen and the tablet batch worklist alike.

Concepts

Quick start

1. In Account Settings, switch on Batch Ingredient Quantity Breakdown.
2. Open the finished good or work-in-progress product, tick Use Quantity Breakdown, then tick Made in Mixes (it only appears once the first box is ticked), and save.
3. Start a batch of that product at whatever multiple of the recipe you are making — ×7.5, say.
4. On each ingredient, tap Add Mix 1, weigh it, and keep tapping Add Mix N until the card says All mixes recorded.
5. If a lot runs out mid-mix, add the next supplier batch and tap Continue Mix N to pick up where it left off.

Setting it up

Tick Use Quantity Breakdown on the product's Detail tab, under Batch Settings:

Ticking it reveals a second checkbox, Made in Mixes, with its own explanation underneath — “Each recipe is made as a separate mix. Recipe x 8 is 8 mixes; x 7.5 is 7 full mixes and a half mix.” Tick that too and save:

• The account switch gates both settings. With Batch Ingredient Quantity Breakdown off in Account Settings, neither Use Quantity Breakdown nor Made in Mixes appears on any product, and every batch keeps the plain single-quantity ingredient card it has always had. Turning the switch off does not change what any individual product has set — it only hides the fields and the mixes behaviour while it is off. Turning it back on restores exactly what each product had ticked before.
• Finished goods and work-in-progress only. Both settings live under Batch Settings on the FG and WIP product forms, because only those product types are made in batches. Open a raw material and neither field is there — raw materials are consumed by a batch, not produced by one, so a breakdown of how they were made has no meaning.
• Made in Mixes depends on Use Quantity Breakdown. It appears only once the breakdown setting is ticked, and unticking the breakdown setting clears and hides it again. A plain quantity breakdown (several quantities adding up to the total, without the mix numbering and labels) is still available on its own by ticking Use Quantity Breakdown without Made in Mixes.

Recording mixes

On a batch of a mixes product, each ingredient's card is badged MIXES instead of the old single quantity field, and starts empty. At a batch size of ×7.5, the required quantity for this ingredient is 22.5 L and one recipe's worth is 3 L; the card offers Add Mix 1 with a hint of Pre-fills 3 L:

Tapping Add Mix N adds that row at its pre-filled quantity, bumps the button on to the next mix, and shows a running Pre-fills … hint for what the next tap will add. Here Mix 1 through Mix 7 are recorded, each a full 3 L recipe, and the button now reads Add Mix 8 with a hint of Pre-fills 1.5 L — because a ×7.5 batch is 7 full mixes and a half mix, and this is the last one:

Adding that last mix labels the row Mix 8 (half) rather than just Mix 8 — the label itself says what fraction of a recipe it is, so a half mix is never mistaken for a short one. The total now matches the required quantity exactly, and the card says so:

The last mix always takes whatever is left — required minus everything already recorded — rather than another full share, so the total lands on the required quantity to the decimal even after rounding across several mixes. You can still edit any row's weighed quantity by hand; the pre-fill is a starting point for the scale, not a lock.

A lot running out mid-mix

If the supplier batch (lot) in use runs out before a mix is finished, the card says so under that row. Here Mix 3 was weighed at 2 L against a required 3 L share, and the note reads “1 L short: lot ran out? Add the next supplier batch and continue this mix”:

Tapping Add Supplier Batch opens a new lot row for this ingredient. Because the last mix recorded (Mix 3) is short, that new row offers Continue Mix 3 instead of starting at the next mix. Tapping it carries over the rest of that mix — here 1 L, the remainder of the 3 L share — onto the new lot. Both rows now read Mix 3 (split), each with a note giving the combined total across both lots:

The note on a split mix always reads “Mix N is X <unit> across lots”, adding up what both lots contributed. If the two lots together do not land on exactly one recipe's worth — the second lot was topped up a little over, say, or a splash short — the note adds how far off: “Mix N is X <unit> across lots (+Y <unit> on one recipe)”, or (−Y <unit> on one recipe) if it is under. For example, “Mix 3 is 3.5 L across lots (+0.5 L on one recipe)” means the two lots between them weighed in half a litre over the 3 L one recipe calls for. When the split total matches exactly, the note stops at “across lots” with no extra remark.

Continue Mix N and Add Mix N only ever appear on the most recently added lot row — the one currently being weighed from. Once a new lot is started, mixing continues from there; the earlier, now-finished lot keeps its recorded rows but stops offering either button.

Availability and permissions

• Turning it on: the account switch is set from Account Settings. The two product settings are edited from the product's Detail tab, which only administrators, setup users and external users can change — the same people who can edit any other field on a product. Production users and managers can view a product's settings but not change them.
• Recording mixes on a batch: anyone who can record that ingredient's quantity on a batch today — administrators, production users and production managers. Mixes change how the quantity is recorded, not who can record it.
• Where it shows: both the classic batch screen and the tablet batch worklist share the same ingredient breakdown component, so a mixes product behaves identically on either.

Things to know

• One mix is one recipe. Mix numbering always runs from the batch's recipe multiplier — a ×8 batch is 8 mixes, a ×7.5 batch is 7 full mixes and a half mix. There is no way to record a mix that is not a share of the recipe.
• A half mix is labelled as a fraction, not hidden. The last mix of a non-whole multiplier is always marked, for example Mix 8 (half), so what was actually weighed is clear from the label alone, without opening the row.
• The total must match the required quantity exactly, unless the ingredient allows variable quantities. Every mix adds up toward the ingredient's required quantity for this batch, and the ingredient only turns valid once the total matches it exactly — the same rule that applied to the plain quantity field before mixes existed. A work-in-progress product can tick Allow Variable Qty on Batch Ingredients for WIP, in which case this exact-match requirement is relaxed for ingredients made from it.
• Turning the settings off keeps recorded mixes. Unticking Made in Mixes or Use Quantity Breakdown on the product changes how new batches of it are recorded; it does not rewrite batches already recorded in mixes. Reopening an existing mixes batch after the product is switched back to plain quantities shows a plain Quantity field, with the already-recorded total still in it.
• Mix numbers are shared across lots on one ingredient, not per lot. Adding a new supplier batch does not restart numbering at Mix 1 — it continues from wherever the previous lot left off, which is what makes Continue Mix N and split labelling possible.