Cost your boards, send professional proposals, invoice your events, and know what you actually kept — all in one place.
Here's what a typical workflow looks like for charcuterie.
Enter meats, cheeses, fruits, crackers, and garnishes with costs per unit. Clearmargin calculates the true cost per board.
Build event proposals with board quantities, setup fees, and delivery. Each board pulls its cost from your recipes.
Log time for shopping, prep, assembly, and delivery. Record ingredient purchases so your actual costs stay accurate.
Send invoices with 50% upfront and 50% on event day — or any split you prefer. Automated reminders keep payments on track.
After the event, see your real margin. Compare estimated ingredient costs to actuals across all your bookings.
Proposals, contracts, time tracking, invoicing, expenses, and tax prep — all in one place.
Build board recipes with proteins, cheeses, produce, crackers, and garnishes. Sub-recipes for signature combinations.
Organize ingredients: proteins, dairy, produce, dried goods, packaging. Each category carries its own markup.
Set milestones for menu planning, shopping, prep day, and event day. Templates for common event types.
Track purchases from wholesale suppliers, specialty shops, and farmers markets. See spending trends per vendor.
Log trips to suppliers and delivery drives to venues. IRS standard rate applied automatically.
Collect deposits upfront and balances on event day. Flexible splits for large catering orders.
Expenses auto-categorize to Schedule C lines. Ingredients, packaging, mileage — all tracked for tax time.
A hosted page where clients submit event inquiries with guest count, date, and dietary preferences.
See revenue, ingredient costs, labor, and true margin per client. Know which events are worth repeating.
Explore a demo account pre-loaded with realistic charcuteriedata — proposals, invoices, expenses, and profitability reports.
Explore the demoStart with your ingredient costs per board — meats, cheeses, fruits, crackers, garnishes, and packaging. Add your labor time for shopping, prep, assembly, and delivery. Apply your target markup to get a per-board price. Clearmargin calculates all of this from your recipes, so you know your exact cost and margin before you quote.
Charcuterie businesses need ingredient costing, invoicing, and expense tracking — not journal entries and balance sheets. Traditional accounting software is designed for bookkeepers. Clearmargin is designed for food businesses: recipe costing, event proposals, payment schedules, and tax-ready exports without any accounting knowledge.
Grazing tables are typically priced per person or per linear foot. Build a base recipe for your standard spread per unit, then scale by the event size. Track your actual ingredient purchases afterward to compare estimated vs real costs. Clearmargin lets you build scalable recipes and compare estimated margins to actual margins after each event.
Most charcuterie businesses cobble together spreadsheets for costing, a separate invoicing app, and maybe QuickBooks for taxes. An all-in-one tool that handles recipe costing, proposals, invoicing, and tax exports saves significant time. Clearmargin replaces the spreadsheet and the separate invoicing app with one connected workflow.