The kiln decides that, and the cost that matters is per piece that survived rather than per piece fired. Ordamo holds the order and its deposit, and treats a kiln run as what it is: one cost, spread over what came out of it whole.
A deposit now, the balance later
Half at order, because the clay and the kiln are paid for long before the crates go out.
Weeks between the sale and the delivery
Six weeks and four firings between the order and the despatch, against an opening date that is already advertised.
A price agreed before the cost is known
You price a plate. The kiln tells you weeks later how many plates you had to make to get 120 good ones.
An order that started in a chat
The order arrives as an email with a photo of a glaze you made two years ago, and a quantity.
A restaurant's tableware order: 120 plates and bowls. Six weeks, three firings and one run that had to be done twice. 120 pieces ordered, at $36 each. The figures are invented; the shape is not.
Money in — $4,320 agreed
Money out — quoted at $768
The quote implied $3,552 (82.2%). The invoices left $3,085 (71.4%) — $467 less than the job was priced to earn. The costing assumed everything that went in came out. Twenty-one pieces did not, and the replacements were a run of their own. Your own hours at the wheel are not in that list, and Ordamo does not put them there.
A kiln load is not a production batch. Does that matter?
It is the same shape, and a batch is the right place to put it: one cost — clay, glaze, the firings — and a number of pieces that came out of it. When the run is received, the cost is split across the pieces it actually produced, so the ones that cracked are already inside the per-piece figure. What a batch is not is a recipe: Ordamo does not hold your glaze formula or count clay to the gram.
What did a plate cost once the losses are counted?
Divide by what survived, not by what was fired — which is what recording the run as a batch does. A run costed at the throwing stage and never corrected is the most common reason a big tableware order looks better on the quote than in the bank, and correcting it takes one action once the last firing is out.
Half my work is wholesale and stocked. Does the rest still fit?
Yes. Stocked lines and commissioned runs live side by side; deposits and batch costs simply do not apply to a mug you have twelve of on the shelf. Ordamo is not a stock system for the wholesale half — it will not tell you how many mugs are left — but it does not get in the way of it either.
Named plainly, so you find out here rather than in week two.
No glaze recipes or material stock
A batch holds what the run cost, not what went into it. No recipes, no clay body records, no counting to the gram.
No kiln log
A firing is a cost on a run. Ordamo does not hold cones, schedules, shelf plans or the temperature the kiln reached.
No wholesale stock counts
Finished products carry a count you adjust by hand, not one that moves as orders ship. For a stock-led line, that is the wrong tool.
Built for orders that take weeks to deliver, start in a message and get paid in parts.
Add a customer and their order
Deposit taken, balance still owed, and the date you promised.
Send your customer their order page
One link that updates itself, instead of twenty messages.
Record what the batch cost
What a run really cost, over the pieces it produced. One button puts that on the products it made.
See what you actually made
Revenue, cost and margin per order. Money in, money out, cash on hand.
Not quite your work?
Ordamo is built by Marat and Nikolai in Buenos Aires, who run their own made-to-order furniture brand on it every day. If something here is wrong about your trade, write to marat@ordamo.app and it gets fixed.
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