Starter kits

A starter kit is the setup your trade already uses, installed in one click: the units you count in, the materials you buy with what they typically cost, the recipes that turn one into the other, the spend categories your accountant expects, the payment terms your trade actually offers, and the wording your quotes and emails go out with.

Kits are never installed behind your back: you pick one in Company Settings → Workspace, whenever you want it — the day you sign up or a month later — and you can install a different one afterwards.

What every kit installs

Nothing is ever written over something you wrote. If you have already typed your own terms and conditions, or edited the quote email, a kit leaves both exactly as they are.

Installing a kit twice is safe: anything already there is left alone and the message tells you nothing was added.

Sample data

Tick Also install sample data when you install a kit and it also adds three sample clients with a quote, an order, an invoice, a production run and an expense — so the dashboard, the lists and the reports all have something on them while you find your way round.

These are real records in every way. The invoice takes its number from your own sequence, is taxed by your own rules and appears in your own reports. What makes them different is that OrderDen wrote down exactly which records it created, so Company Settings → Workspace can take precisely those away again — never a name match, never "everything from the first hour".

Two things stop a record being removed, and both are listed before you press anything: you have edited it, or something real now points at it. If anything is in the way, nothing at all is removed.

The kits

Candles & soap

Soy and coconut-soy wax, fragrance, wicks, jars, lids, labels and boxes; olive oil and lye for cold process. Recipes for an 8 oz pour of 24, a 12 oz pour of 12, a tray of melts and a loaf of soap. Terms that mention cure times, because a candle that leaves early is a complaint waiting to happen.

Jewellery

Sterling sheet and wire by the gram, solder, cabochons, ear wires and chain by the centimetre. Rings, studs and pendants, plus a bench rate for repairs and resizes. Commission terms with a deposit that buys the metal and the stone.

Ceramics & pottery

Stoneware and porcelain clay, two glazes, and the kiln firing itself as a costed material — because it is one. Recipes priced per kiln load, and a Seconds category, because firing losses are real and pretending otherwise makes every margin wrong.

Textiles & clothing

Linen, jersey and canvas by the metre, thread, zips, woven and care labels. Runs of ten shirts, twenty tees, twenty-five totes. Wholesale terms with a minimum first order.

Woodworking

Walnut and maple by the board foot, ply by the sheet, hardwax oil, abrasives. End-grain and edge-grain boards run in batches, a turned bowl, and terms that say plainly that solid timber moves with the seasons.

Food & drink

Fruit, sugar, pectin, flour, butter, green coffee; jars, valve bags and labels. Pans of forty jars, roasts of forty bags, bakes of eight boxes. Terms covering batch codes, allergens and what happens when the fruit is short.

Print & art

Cotton rag and matte papers, pigment ink averaged per print, mount board and frames, tubes and sleeves. Open and limited editions, framing, originals and commissions. Terms that keep copyright with the artist.

Trades & workshops

MDF, birch ply, oak, edging, hinges, runners and lacquer. Base units, drawer banks, sprayed doors and fitted worktops, with bench, fitting and survey rates. The substance here is the terms: 50% deposit, balance on completion, 40/40/20 staged, and wording that prices variations separately instead of absorbing them.

Something else I make

Two materials, two products and one recipe, named plainly so the shape is obvious. Rename them to whatever you actually make.

A service business

No stock and no recipes. Hourly, daily, call-out, out-of-hours and retainer rates; terms about 15-minute increments, scope, cancellation and parts remaining yours until paid for.

Changing your mind

Company Settings → Workspace holds all of it: the industry, the wording, the button that installs a kit and the button that removes the samples. Changing your industry there installs nothing on its own — the kit is always a separate, deliberate click, so correcting a dropdown never drops thirty materials into your catalog.