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Industry · food, beverage, supplements and skincarefig. 00 · where you are now

Traceability an auditor can love. Margins you can finally trust.

Formulated products are most of what we do: food and drink, supplements, skincare and body care. Batches, expiry dates, recipes and formulations, landed costs, wholesale alongside DTC. We have set this up so many times that we know which questions your business will face before you ask them. That is what makes it fast.

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In the boxfig. 01 · standard fit

A standard implementation for formulated products covers all of this.

Around 80% of getting a product business live on Cin7 Core is the same well-trodden path, and we have it down to a repeatable process. The industry-specific pieces below are part of that standard, not extras.

  1. 01Batch and expiry trackingLot numbers and expiry dates on everything that needs them, set up so picking respects shelf life and a recall question takes minutes rather than a weekend of spreadsheets.
  2. 02Recipes, formulations and productionBills of materials for your recipes, production runs that consume ingredients and cost finished goods properly, and visibility of what you can actually make. The same machinery runs a sauce, a supplement or a face cream.
  3. 03Landed costs to XeroFreight, duty and supplier charges landing in the right place, so margins are real and your accountant stops asking questions.
  4. 04Wholesale and DTC togetherTrade customers with their own price tiers and terms, Shopify or WooCommerce for DTC, all pulling from one pool of stock that everyone can trust.
  5. 05Reordering that reflects realityReorder points built from how you actually buy and sell, including supplier lead times and minimum order quantities, so best sellers stop running out.
  6. 06Accounting that reconcilesXero or QuickBooks connected properly, A2X where your channels need it, and a month-end that closes without a fight.
How it runsfig. 02 · the path

A well-trodden path from spreadsheets to go-live.

  1. Scope

    We map how your business really works: products, channels, suppliers, the lot. You talk, we translate it into Cin7 Core terms.

  2. Build

    Your data cleaned and imported, the system configured around your workflows, integrations connected and tested.

  3. Train

    Your team learns the day-to-day on your own data, not a demo account. You come away running it, not depending on us.

  4. Go live

    Opening stock counted and loaded, first orders through the system, and us on hand while it beds in.

Examples of how we have helpedfig. 03 · the log

The journey, not just the go-live.

An implementation is where the relationship starts, not where it ends. These are real clients, from first setup through the projects that followed, and what changed in their business along the way.

Mount Zero Olives

Grampians, Australia · olive grower turned regional copacker and distributor
Food producerWholesaleRetaileCommerce

A family farm on one of Australia's oldest olive groves, grown into a regional copacker and distributor. Their accounting software's basic inventory module had them batching stock with pen and paper, with no view of product profitability or salesperson performance.

  • BeforeMYOB and paper batch records
  • Now runsCin7 Core + Xero
  • In the boxBatch and expiry tracking, per-customer pricing, item-level margins

The journey

Implementation the start

Off pen-and-paper batching onto Cin7 Core and Xero: automated stock tracking, food-safety compliance handled, real-time sales and inventory data.

Pricing and margin work follow-on

With item-level costs visible for the first time, we helped them find margin-eroding products and reprice high-volume, low-margin lines.

Growing on the system today

Production, fulfilment and sales data a couple of clicks away, and the numbers below to show for it.

+18%
Top-line revenue in the first year on the new system
+4pts
Net margin, from repricing informed by item-level data
2×
Bottom line within 18 months of going live

Archie Rose Distilling Co.

Sydney, Australia · independent distillery: gin, whisky and vodka
Beverage producerManufacturingWholesaleRetail

Sydney's independent distillery, tracking materials and finished product by hand while wrestling with alcohol excise reporting to the tax office. Their production is genuinely complex: up to seven distinct layers between raw material and bottle.

  • BeforeManual tracking across spreadsheets
  • Now runsCin7 Core + Xero
  • In the boxMulti-level bills of materials, production costing, compliance reporting

The journey

Implementation the start

Mapped a seven-layer production process into Cin7 Core bills of materials, with costs flowing correctly through every stage.

Compliance reporting follow-on

Excise and compliance reporting rebuilt around the system: what took days of admin now takes a few clicks.

Forecasting and supply today

Stock visibility extended into their suppliers' warehouses, with forecasting supporting a reputation, and sales, that keep growing.

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Production layers mapped into one bill of materials structure
Clicks
What tax-office excise reporting now takes, instead of days
Real-time
Reporting across the business, including supplier warehouses

Sweet Beginnings

Chicago, USA · honey and honey-infused skincare, sold worldwide
Skincare & body careFood producereCommerceSocial enterprise

A social enterprise creating honey and honey-infused beauty and body care products, and employment for people rebuilding their lives after prison. Their production process had never been mapped, and stock, ecommerce and accounting lived in separate worlds.

  • BeforeUnmapped production, disconnected systems
  • Now runsCin7 Core + Xero + Shopify
  • In the boxFormulation BOMs, unit-of-measure conversion, connected ecommerce

The journey

Mapping the process the start

Translated a never-documented production process, awkward units of measure and all, into bills of materials the system could run.

Connecting the stack follow-on

Shopify, inventory and Xero joined up, so packing and shipping run from numbers the team actually trusts.

Room to grow today

Accurate forecasting and efficient stock management, which for this business means more products sold and more people given a second chance.

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Connected system where three disconnected ones used to be
Raw → shelf
Every material and finished product tracked with confidence
Global
Orders shipped worldwide from one reliable stock position

Drawn from published Waypoint client stories. Figures as reported by the client at the time.

out of the box · the development off-ramp

EDI to your warehouse? A rule Cin7 Core does not have?

When a requirement falls outside the standard build, we do not squeeze it in and hope. It goes to our development team: scoped honestly, solved before it can slow your implementation down, and built on our evidence-tested map of the Cin7 Core API.

Explore development

Making, moving or selling food and drink?

Talk it through with someone who has taken dozens of brands like yours onto Cin7 Core. We will tell you honestly what fits in the box and what a sensible next step looks like.

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Questions we will already have answers to

  • ✓ How do we track batches without slowing the pack line?
  • ✓ Can wholesale and Shopify share one stock pool?
  • ✓ Will our recipes cost finished goods properly?
  • ✓ What does a recall look like in Cin7 Core?