Know exactly what your next batch costs, and when it lands.
You design the product and sell it. Someone else makes it. NextBatch is the plan you both work from — one schedule, one recipe, one cost per unit, updated by whoever touches it.
Free while you are small. Always free for your co-manufacturer — they never pay to work with you.
Making things somewhere else breaks in four predictable places
None of them are anyone's fault. They all come from the same thing: two companies keeping two copies of the same plan.
The spreadsheet nobody trusts
Your run schedule lives in one file, your co-packer keeps another, and the two stopped matching three batches ago.
Finding out late
A line goes down on Tuesday and you hear about it on Friday, from a customer asking where their order is.
Cost per unit as a guess
You know roughly what a can costs. You do not know what changed when the sugar price moved, or what the last short-fill actually cost you.
Ordering blind
Ingredients get ordered off a gut feel about the next run, which is how you end up paying rush freight or sitting on a pallet of labels.
Six stages. The same six on both sides of the wall.
This is the whole product. Every screen belongs to one of these, and each one hands the next its numbers, so nothing gets typed twice.
- Demand
Start from what actually sold
Connect Shopify or WooCommerce and your real sell-through becomes the forecast. The burndown shows stock running to zero, so the question stops being “should we make more?” and becomes “which week”.
- Book a run
Book real capacity, not an email thread
See every co-manufacturer’s open days, with changeovers and tank availability already accounted for. Pick a slot and it is booked on both calendars at once.
- Ingredients
One order across every run that needs it
NextBatch works out what the booked runs consume, nets it against what is already on the shelf, adds your overage, and turns it into a purchase order per supplier.
- Receiving
What arrived, what it weighed, and the photo
Track every delivery to the dock. Goods-in weighs it against what was ordered, photographs it, and both companies shake on the number — so a short delivery is caught the day it lands.
- On the line
Watch it fill, in their words
The batch sheet is generated from your recipe at their batch size. The floor records checks and scrap as they go, and you see it happen instead of hearing about it later.
- Distribution
Out of the door, into the cost
Finished units split across your channels, and every real number from the run — yield, scrap, actual weights — lands back in cost per unit. No second spreadsheet.
A handshake, so “I told you that” stops being an argument
When a date moves, a weight comes in short, or a run runs late, both companies confirm the same specific fact. Not a message that might have been read — a record that says who agreed what, and when.
- It is between the two companies, not two people. Anyone with the right role can shake for their side.
- There is no un-shaking. Once both sides agree, that is the record.
- If one side goes quiet it resolves itself when their window runs out, so a silent partner can never block you.
Two days late — filler seal failure
Ships 18 Aug, not 16 Aug · PO-40218
One plan, two very different jobs
The brand is planning a business. The site is running a floor. They need the same facts and completely different screens.
Plan the year, not just the next run
- Sell-through from Shopify or WooCommerce becomes a demand forecast
- Book capacity against real lines, not an email thread
- Cost per unit that moves when a supplier price does
- One order covering every ingredient several runs need
Every brand's run on one calendar
- All the brands they make for, in one schedule with changeovers
- Goods in, weighed and photographed, against what was ordered
- Floor mode — a tablet screen with one job and three buttons
- Their rate card, their certifications, their tolling terms
If it has a recipe and someone else makes it, it fits
Pick your category once and the units, pack formats, quality checks and paperwork all change to match. A supplements brand never sees a fill-volume check.
Your next batch is already being planned. Somewhere.
Better that it happens in one place both of you can see. Free to start, and free forever for your co-manufacturer.
No card. Set up your first product in about ten minutes.