Working document
The traceable batch record sheet
One page you can print, clip to the bench and fill in as you work, built so any finished bottle traces back to the jars it came out of.
Free resources
Resources for the formulation bench
Working tools for herbalists who write formulas, run batches and answer for every bottle that leaves the counter.
Everything on this page was built for one kind of business: a small apothecary where the person who consults is usually the person who weighs the herbs, presses the tincture and sticks the label on the bottle. That means the tools assume grams, menstruum ratios, press loss and lot codes rather than generic units and abstract inventory.
Start with whichever question is pressing. If pricing is the sore spot, the blend price calculator will tell you within a few minutes what your custom formulas are actually earning. If traceability is the worry, the lot trace calculator sizes the job and the batch record sheet gives you a document to start using tomorrow morning. The comparisons are there for the week you are deciding what to buy.
Free tools
Free calculators for herbalists who make what they sell
Two small tools that answer the questions a formulation bench raises every week, with realistic defaults you can overwrite with your own numbers.
Comparisons
How HerbalCounter compares to the tools herbalists already run
Most apothecary owners end up paying for two or three tools that each hold half the story, so the real question is which half has to live in one place.
Main guide
How do I set up lot tracking so I can trace one finished bottle back to its ingredient lots?
It settles how to number incoming herbs, tie those numbers to batch records, and pull a complete trace from a finished bottle back to its supplier lots in minutes.
Magazine
The Formulation Bench
Practical reporting for clinical herbalists and apothecary owners on formulation, batch records, sourcing, labeling law and shop economics.
About
Who writes all of this
One page on who writes here, the years spent weighing botanicals and pressing tinctures behind it, and why every record on this site begins at the intake lot code rather than the finished bottle.
Take the sheet, then look at the rest
The calculators and the batch record sheet are yours to print and use as they stand, binder and all. If the paper starts lagging behind the bench, a demo shows what those same fields look like when an intake lot code links itself to every batch and the disposition line turns into a list you can call. Bring your slowest moving herb and your busiest month.