Blends by the ounce, flavors by the numbers
Hivara 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 tea in Hivara
Product
Loose-Leaf Tea Blend (4 oz)
SKU TEA-BLEND-4
Material
Loose-Leaf Tea
tracked in oz · Tea
Supplier
Roast & Pantry Supply
Variations
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. Per-ingredient tracking keeps every botanical counted, costed and reorderable.
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. Sales by blend show which teas earn their shelf space — and which linger past their peak season and their prime.
Track everything that goes into a tea
From raw materials to finished stock, Hivara keeps tea blenders on top of:
- green coffee, tea or spices by weight
- bags and tins
- labels
- filters and inclusions
A tea in Hivara
Product
Loose-Leaf Tea Blend (4 oz)
SKU TEA-BLEND-4
Material
Loose-Leaf Tea
tracked in oz · Tea
Supplier
Roast & Pantry Supply
Variations
Flavor, Size
A day in Hivara, for tea blenders
- 1
Weigh in leaf and botanicals
Base teas and each botanical by the ounce, with tins, pouches and labels alongside.
- 2
Lock blends as recipes
The chai's exact grammage per component — every batch identical, every cost known.
- 3
Blend a dated batch
A 40-tin blend run draws leaf and botanicals, and lands as counted stock with its batch date.
- 4
Curate the lineup with data
Sales by flavor and size decide which blends deepen, which rotate seasonal, and which retire.
What a loose-leaf tea blend (4 oz) really costs
This is the math Hivara does for every product you make — every line from a real bill of materials, updated whenever a supplier 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
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 drawn from the same formula. When a customer says the chai tastes different, the recipe and its ingredient lots answer whether anything actually changed.
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 — retail sizes and bulk bags are variations of the same blend, each with its own packaging cost and price. One blend batch serves both channels, counted once.
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