Blends by the ounce, flavors by the numbers
Keepsel is inventory and production software for tea blenders. Weigh base teas and botanicals into repeatable blend recipes, track tins and pouches alongside the leaf, and price eight flavors in three sizes without losing the plot, or the margin.
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A tin of tea in Keepsel
Product
Loose-Leaf Tea Blend (4 oz)
SKU TEA-BLEND-4
Material
Loose-Leaf Tea
tracked in oz · Tea
Supplier
Roast & Pantry Supply
Variations, from Maker
Flavor, Size
Built around how tea blenders actually work
A blend is a recipe, not a scoop
Chai that tastes the same in March and November comes from weighed recipes: this much Assam, this much cardamom. Recipe-based blending makes consistency a system instead of a memory.
Botanicals come from everywhere
Rose petals, dried orange, lavender, peppercorns: a dozen small suppliers feed one shelf. Keepsel keeps every botanical counted and costed, and from the Maker plan alerts you when one runs low.
The tin can cost more than the tea
A $0.95 tin around $3 of leaf is a third of the product. Packaging in the recipe keeps pretty tins from quietly eating the blend's margin.
Eight flavors is a shelf; eighteen is a problem
Flavor lineups creep. From the Maker plan (or 25 messages free on the trial), ask Suli which blends earn their shelf space, and which linger past their peak season and their prime.
Track everything that goes into a tin of tea
From raw materials to the finished piece, Keepsel keeps tea blenders on top of:
- green coffee, tea or spices by weight
- bags and tins
- labels
- filters and inclusions
A day in Keepsel, for tea blenders
Weigh in leaf and botanicals
Base teas and each botanical by the ounce, with tins, pouches and labels alongside.
Lock blends as recipes
The chai's exact grammage per component: every batch identical, every cost known.
Blend a batch
From the Maker plan, a work order for a 40-tin blend run draws down leaf and botanicals and adds the tins to finished stock (work orders up to 10 a month on Maker as a trial and 100 on Team, unlimited on Business and Enterprise).
Curate the lineup with data
Sales by flavor and size decide which blends deepen, which rotate seasonally, and which retire.
Loose-Leaf Tea Blend (4 oz), costed line by line
This is the math Keepsel does for every product you make: every line from its recipe, updated whenever a material's price changes.
The pouch version costs $0.60 less to pack: offering both is a margin choice you can see.
Loose-Leaf Tea Blend (4 oz)
- Base teas (4.2 oz incl. blending allowance)
- $3.15
- Botanicals
- $0.85
- Tin
- $0.95
- Label + seal
- $0.25
- True cost
- $5.20
- Suggested price
- $16.00
- Margin
- 68%
Questions tea blenders ask
How do I price loose-leaf tea blends?
Cost the weighed components (base leaf, each botanical) plus the tin, label and your blending time, then margin. Specialty blends commonly retail at 3× materials; the discipline is costing the botanicals you add 'to taste'.
How do I keep tea blends consistent between batches?
Weighed recipes: every component in grams or ounces, every batch made from the same formula. When a customer says the chai tastes different, the recipe answers whether anything changed, and from the Maker plan Keepsel keeps the lot numbers of the teas you received.
How do I track tea packaging costs?
Tins, pouches, labels and seals are materials in the blend's recipe. Packaging often runs 20–35% of a tea product's cost: visible in the recipe, it's a pricing input; invisible, it's a slow leak.
How many tea flavors should I offer?
As many as sell, which the numbers will tell you. Most blenders find a handful of core flavors carry most revenue while the long tail ties up botanicals. Rotate seasonals through a stable core and let sales data prune.
Can I track both retail tins and bulk wholesale tea?
Yes. From the Maker plan, retail sizes and bulk bags can be variations of the same blend, each with its own packaging cost and price.
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Guides for tea blenders
All guidesHow to Price Tea Blends (The Tin Costs More Than You Think)
A $16 tin of tea holds $4 of leaf and $1.20 of packaging. Price blends from weighed recipes and the margin steeps properly.
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Run your tea business like a business
Know your true cost and margin and keep every material counted. Or try the free pricing calculator first.
Try free for 30 days, with 25 Suli messages once you confirm your email (all of Suli from Maker). No card.