Beekeeping costs and income, per hive
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Personalize your financial profile
Set cost categories adding their name, description and type. Then use our financial tool to insert your business costs including cost category and amount.
Get a clear view of your business
The easy to use dashboard will help you measure your business profitability and reduce unnecessary expenses every month. Use the income and outgoing category pies to rocket up your financial.
Meet BeehiveMind financial features
Costs
Insert all costs of your business for better control on what's coming in and going out.
Cost Categories
Create cost categories like jars, feeding, tools, honey, pollen etc to personalize your account.
Financial chart
Consult income and outgoing chart to observe how your beekeeping business is performing.
Financial Pies
Use costs and cost categories and our financial tool will automatically create pies with categorized data to your account.
Income/Outgoing Pie
Keep an eye on income/outgoing pie to see the balance between income and expenses of your business.
Financial Reports
Filter your costs by period and category, then export the summary to keep your bookkeeping in order.
Common questions
Everything that grows with the number of hives: sugar, treatments, frames and foundation, queens, jars and labels. Then the fixed costs such as insurance and association fees, and the losses, because a colony lost over winter is a nucleus to buy or a split to make.
What beekeeping costs per hive »Yes. Name a category, describe it and mark it as income or outgoing, then file every cost and sale under it. The charts split the year by those categories, so set them up the way you think about the apiary.
At hobby scale, rarely once equipment and time are counted; the honey usually covers the running costs. It turns into a business past a few dozen hives sold direct, and from there the margin depends on what a kilo costs you to produce and the price you set.
The numbers behind a beekeeping business »Start from what a kilo costs you, jars and labels included, then look at what local honey sells for at markets and farm shops rather than on supermarket shelves. Honey sold direct in jars usually earns several times the bulk price.
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