Reviewing & Adjusting
Step 2 of the What If? wizard is where you review the affected recipes, check the primary adjustment from Step 1, and optionally layer on additional adjustments to fine-tune your scenario.
Affected recipes
The top of the page shows all recipes included in the scenario. What you see depends on the trigger type:
Price Change scenarios
Each recipe shows its current selling price and a new price column. If you have added price adjustments (flat or percentage), the new prices are calculated automatically. You can click on any new price to override it with a custom value - overridden prices appear in blue with a reset icon.
Ingredient Swap scenarios
Each recipe shows the original quantity and unit of the swapped ingredient alongside an editable replacement quantity input. If the original and replacement share the same unit, the replacement is pre-filled with the original quantity. Adjust as needed per recipe.
If you chose Remove Ingredient, the replacement column is hidden since the ingredient is simply being removed.
Quantity Adjustment scenarios
Each recipe shows the current quantity and an editable new quantity input for the adjusted ingredient. Values are pre-filled based on the change you entered in Step 1. You can fine-tune the quantity per recipe.
Supplier Price Change scenarios
A simpler list showing each recipe's name, category, and current selling price. The cost impact is calculated behind the scenes from the ingredient price changes you set in Step 1.
Recipe Adjustment scenarios
For base recipes, the list shows all parent recipes that use the edited recipe. For product recipes, the list shows just the recipe itself. Both display the recipe name, category, and current selling price.
VAT Rate Change scenarios
All standard-rated recipes are shown with their name, category, and current selling price. The margin impact is calculated using the new VAT rate you selected.
Excluding recipes
Click the X button next to any recipe to exclude it from the scenario. Excluded recipes appear faded. This is useful if a particular recipe has special pricing or should not be affected by this change.
Primary adjustments
Below the recipe list, you will see one or more primary adjustment cards. These are read-only and reflect what you configured in Step 1:
- Price Change trigger: no primary adjustment (you add adjustments below)
- Supplier Price Change trigger: one card per ingredient showing the price change
- Ingredient Swap trigger: one card showing the swap details
- Quantity Adjustment trigger: one card showing the quantity change
- Recipe Adjustment trigger: one card showing the recipe cost change (original vs adjusted cost per portion)
- VAT Rate Change trigger: one card showing the rate change (e.g. 20% to 10%)
Additional adjustments
You can layer extra adjustments on top of the primary ones. Click one of the adjustment buttons to add it:
Flat Price Change
Add a fixed amount to the selling price of every included recipe. Enter a value (e.g. 0.50 to add 50p to each recipe). This stacks with any other adjustments.
Example: Your Price Change scenario already increases cakes by 5%. Adding a flat +0.20 on top means each recipe gets both the percentage increase and the additional 20p.
Percentage Price Change
Add a percentage increase or decrease to the selling price. Enter the percentage value (e.g. 5 for a 5% increase).
Portion/Batch Change
This adjustment lets you model changes to recipe batch yields - for example, increasing a brownie slab from 12 to 14 portions per batch to reduce the cost per portion.
When you select this option, a per-recipe table appears:
| Column | Description |
|---|---|
| Recipe | The recipe name |
| Current | The recipe's current yield (batch size) |
| New | An editable input for the new yield - pre-filled with the current value |
| Unit | The yield unit (e.g. portions, slices, servings) |
Adjust the values for the recipes you want to change. Recipes where you leave the value unchanged are not affected by this adjustment.
The Add Adjustment button is disabled until at least one recipe has a different value from its current yield.
A real-world change often involves multiple adjustments at once. For example, a supplier price rise might prompt you to both absorb some cost (reducing your margin) and pass some on to customers (a small price increase). Add both a Supplier Price Change trigger and a Percentage Price Change additional adjustment to model this.
Removing additional adjustments
Additional adjustment cards have a remove button (trash icon). Click it to remove the adjustment from the scenario. Primary adjustments from Step 1 cannot be removed - go back to Step 1 to change the trigger configuration.
Validation
Before you can continue to the simulation, the scenario must have:
- At least one included recipe (not all excluded)
- At least one adjustment (primary or additional)
- For Ingredient Swap scenarios: a replacement quantity entered for every non-excluded recipe
- For Quantity Adjustment scenarios: a valid quantity entered for every non-excluded recipe
If any validation fails, the Simulate Impact button remains disabled.
Moving forward
Click Simulate Impact to run the simulation. Brikly calculates the estimated annual profit impact for every recipe in the scenario and presents the results.