HONEY BUSINESS · BOTTLING PLAN
Honey Product Mix Optimizer
Plan how to split a honey harvest across several package sizes. Choose whether to use as much honey as possible, maximize potential sales, or maximize sales after packaging cost.
Calculator + methodology reviewed September 19, 2026.
BOTTLING MIX · REVENUE PLANNING
Honey Product Mix Optimizer
Enter your available honey and the package sizes you sell. The planner searches for a feasible mix that either uses the most honey, maximizes potential sales, or maximizes sales after packaging cost.
| Product | Net wt (oz) | Price | Pack cost | Inventory max |
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Suggested bottling mix
Planner uses weight-based package sizes. Blank inventory means unlimited for this run.
What the optimizer is solving
A bottling day is a constrained allocation problem: you have a finite amount of honey, package sizes consume different weights, package inventory may be limited, and retail prices differ by size. The optimizer searches feasible integer container counts instead of suggesting fractional jars.
Three useful goals
Use as much honey as possible favors the mix with the least unbottled honey. Maximize potential sales favors the highest entered selling-price total. Maximize sales after packaging subtracts the entered jar/lid/label cost before comparing package mixes.
What it does not include
This is not a full profit model. Honey production cost, labor, merchant fees, taxes, shipping, market fees, spoilage, and overhead are not included unless you separately account for them.