Cashowa
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Food and drink products
Cashowa turns your bank statements into a clear picture of the business. Made for cooking and baking sellers, and for the specific way money moves in this trade.
Free plan, 10 credits a month, no card required.
Alex M.
hello@oakfieldcookingand.co
Your business at a glance.
Revenue (90d)
$10,609.00
Operating costs (90d)
$7,286.00
Net profit (90d)
$3,323.00
Monthly net
$1,473.00
Average of closed months
Cash flow
Money in and out, last 12 months
Top costs
Biggest expense categories, last 90 days
Top suppliers
Where the money went, last 90 days
The money side of cooking and baking sellers is rarely as tidy as the accounting software assumes. Food has a clock on it. Everything you buy or make is losing value from the day it exists, and unsold stock past its date is worthless rather than discountable. That makes buying accuracy far more important than in categories where old stock is merely unfashionable.
Packaging and shipping are unusually heavy costs here. Sending food safely often means insulation, ice packs and next day delivery, and for lower priced items that can cost more than the product itself. Plenty of food sellers discover their small orders lose money.
The compensation is loyalty. People who like a hot sauce or a coffee buy it again, and repeat customers in food are genuinely valuable. Measuring that repeat rate is what tells you whether you have a brand or just a series of one off sales.
Money in
$3,567.00
Money out
$1,526.00
Left over
$2,041.00
Where the money went
Upload a statement and Cashowa does the sorting. Free to start, no card needed.
Three situations that come up constantly in cooking and baking.
Repeat purchase rate from your own orders. In food it is the clearest signal of whether the product is genuinely good or merely well marketed.
Compare your average order value against packaging plus shipping. Where those two nearly meet, small orders lose money, and that gap tells you where the minimum needs to sit.
Hampers carry heavy packaging and shipping costs. Cost them as their own product and the fourth quarter picture becomes a lot clearer than the revenue figure suggests.
Switch between monthly, quarterly and yearly to see the pattern.
The fourth quarter dominates for gifting and hampers. Summer suits some products and hurts others, especially anything that melts.
Upload twelve months and the pattern stops being something you half remember. You can switch between monthly, quarterly and yearly, which matters when income arrives in lumps and a single month tells you very little.
Import your sales file and Cashowa works out profit per product, what is selling, and what has not moved in sixty days. Enter what each item costs you once and the margins stop being guesswork.
Add a lead time and it warns you before something runs out, rather than after.
Reorder now
Premium cooking, Compact cooking will run out before a new order arrives.
| Product | Sold | Revenue | Cost | Stock |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Premium cooking | 13 | $1,137.24 | $36.00 | 3 |
| Compact cooking | 36 | $729.00 | $9.00 | 3 |
| Classic cooking | 9 | $1,029.51 | $41.00 | 71 |
| Everyday cooking | 21 | $2,164.05 | $45.00 | 45 |
| Mini cooking | 45 | $3,512.25 | $35.00 | 42 |
Import an order export and Cashowa works these out on its own.
Net revenue
$18,420
after refunds
Gross profit
$7,905
after unit costs
Average order
$46.10
Repeat buyers
31.4%
of customers
Refund rate
4.2%
Lifetime value
$92.30
per customer
Built around how cooking and baking sell, not around a generic business.
Volume versus margin, compared honestly.
The number that decides whether your minimum order is set right.
Both are unusually large in food and both need watching.
The strongest signal that the product is actually good.
Discount beats waste.
These get recognised and sorted on their own when they turn up on your statement. If something specific to your setup gets filed wrongly, you fix it once and it sticks.
Export a statement, upload it, and the categorising happens on its own.
The things worth knowing before you sign up.
Other food and drink products categories Cashowa is built for.
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No bank login
You upload a statement. Cashowa never asks for your banking credentials.
No card to start
The free plan gives you credits every month without payment details.
CSV or PDF
Whatever your bank exports. No special format needed.
Your data stays yours
Stored against your account only, and you can delete it whenever.
Cashowa reads your statements and tells you straight. Free plan, no card required.