Bookkeeping for Wholesale Brands
For food, beverage, beauty and supplement brands. Production runs, unit costs, wholesale and retail, kept straight every month.
COGS booked with every payout
- Units sold640
- × Unit cost$6.35
- = COGS$,.00
Trued up against inventory counts
Sample COGS
Kalen co-founded a CPG brand before starting Kigitz. We know the brand side of the books because we’ve lived it.
What we handle
The Parts of CPG Books Most Bookkeepers Get Wrong
Still Expensing Inventory?
A lot of early CPG brands expense inventory the day they buy it. Your margins swing every time you place a production order, and you never really know what each unit costs you. We tackle that head on: we walk you through moving to capitalized inventory, coordinated with your tax preparer, so COGS shows up when product actually sells.
Production runs
Co-packer, packaging and freight invoices are held against the run and moved into inventory when it lands.
Unit cost
Set from the per-unit costs you give us, or pulled straight from our inventory software partner, so gross margin isn’t a guess.
Payables and receivables
We track what you owe co-packers and suppliers and what retailers and distributors owe you, so you can see how long your cash is tied up between paying for a run and getting paid for it.
Retail integrations
We connect retailer order platforms like SPS Commerce, so wholesale orders and invoices flow into your books.
Plan Your Next Production Run
Cash gets tied up in inventory long before it sells. CFO support adds cash forecasting built around your production runs and wholesale terms.
Selling on Shopify or Amazon as well? See how we handle e-commerce payouts.
FAQ
CPG Bookkeeping Questions
We work with a co-packer. How do you handle production runs?
Co-packer, packaging and freight invoices arrive before the goods do. We hold them against the run and move them to inventory when it lands and the unit cost is set.
Do you work with food, beverage, beauty and supplement brands?
Yes.
Should we capitalize or expense inventory?
For most brands, capitalizing gives you a much clearer picture of margin. We explain the trade-off and coordinate the switch with your tax preparer.
We sell wholesale and DTC. Can you handle both?
Yes. Both live in the same books, with revenue broken out by channel.
Do you work with SPS Commerce?
Yes. We connect it so retailer orders and invoices flow into your books.
Forecasts, models and dashboards from Kigitz are prepared for internal management decisions. They are not audited, reviewed or compiled, and investors, lenders and other outside parties should not rely on them.
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