Weigh or count what a batch produced, read each entry, move the batch forward, and print a label for what came out.
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Batch 1 of the teriyaki bowls is cooked, cooled, and packed into cases. The inputs are already weighed and the recipe is running — now you tell Bettr what this batch actually made, so the next one can start and the finished bowls carry a lot you can trace. Recording output is the other half of a batch: weigh what came off the line, or count the cases and loose units, and every entry lands against the batch you're on. Open Production runs, pick the run, and open the recipe you're recording.
Kitchen+Output is recorded on the same screen as weighing — a . From the run's Recipes tab, select Continue on the recipe that's In progress, or Start on one still Pending. The line item opens on the batch you're working.
Scroll to the Output card. It shows the batch's at a glance:
Use Weigh output when you read the finished amount off a scale.
Open the output sheet
Select Weigh output. The sheet opens against the batch you're on.
Enter what the scale reads
Type the amount into Quantity and pick its Unit — a weight unit when the recipe yields in pounds, or units when it yields by the piece. Add a Notes line if the entry needs a comment.
Save the entry
Select Save output. The entry drops into the Output entries list below, and the amount is moved into the batch's .
When the recipe carries a , Count output lets you record by the case instead of by weight. Enter how many of each group you filled and how many Loose units are left over. Bettr multiplies each group by its units-per-group, adds the loose units, and records the total — count 8 cases of 12 plus 4 loose, and the entry reads 100 un. A counted entry is tagged counted in the list. You have to count at least one unit; an empty count is refused.
Every saved entry shows in the Output entries list, newest first — its quantity and unit, the batch it belongs to, and a counted tag when it came from a count. Each row carries a Label link and an Undo action.
Undo reverses an entry, taking its amount back out of the WIP lot, so a mistyped weight or a double-counted case doesn't stick.
Undo only works while the batch is live
Once you Finish recipe, the floor screen won't reverse an entry — reopen the recipe first. And if the output has already been drawn from its WIP lot further down the line, Bettr refuses the undo rather than pull stock that's already moved.
The Output card compares this batch's Target against the recipe's total Produced. When the current batch reaches its target, the card adds a batch complete note. In the supervisor view, the Batch overview breaks the same numbers down per batch — each row reads Output 100.000 / 100.000 un with an Output complete badge, or Ingredients pending while a batch still owes weighings.
Record more than the run was scheduled for and Bettr doesn't block it: a banner notes how much you produced against the schedule, and the excess is kept in the WIP ledger rather than lost.
A weigh-per-batch recipe runs one batch at a time. Once you've weighed every ingredient and recorded the output for the batch you're on, Finish batch 1 advances you to the next one and resets the targets to its share. If the recipe is set to require output before the next batch, Bettr holds you there until this batch's output is recorded. The final batch has no button to advance — there's nowhere left to go. A weigh-per-run recipe skips all of this: it records a single output against the whole run, with no batches to advance.
Confirm a run of batches at once
In the supervisor Batch overview, Confirm batches weighs every ingredient and records the output for a run of consecutive batches in one step, advancing between them — handy when several identical batches are done and you're catching the paperwork up after the fact.
Label on an output entry opens that entry's WIP lot sticker — a QR label the floor can scan later — in a new tab. Print batch label, on the batch card and each Batch overview row, prints the label for the whole batch. Both open ready to send to the printer. Printing a run's labels together and exporting the batch records an auditor asks for is its own task; see Print labels and export batch records.