A manufacturing method for manufacturing a spectacle lens, the method comprising the steps of: - obtaining prescription data descriptive of an ophthalmic prescription of a user in the plus prescription range; - providing a lens blank having a convex front surface and a back surface; - determining a final cutting surface to be machined on the back surface of the lens blank in a secondary cutting phase; - obtaining frame data descriptive of a perimeter of a spectacle frame in which the lens is to be mounted; - determining an intermediate cutting surface to be machined on the back surface of the lens blank in a primary cutting phase, wherein the intermediate cutting surface is different from the final cutting surface; - wherein the final cutting surface comprises - a prescription zone, in which the final cutting surface together with the front surface fulfills the ophthalmic prescription of the user; and wherein a boundary perimeter of the prescription zone encloses the perimeter of the spectacle frame; and - a non-prescription blending zone surrounding the prescription zone; in which the final cutting surface together with the front surface provides at least a predetermined minimum thickness of the spectacle lens; - wherein said intermediate cutting surface is determined based on the final cutting surface; wherein a maximum curvature of the intermediate cutting surface is smaller than a maximum curvature of the final cutting surface; and wherein a lens thickness provided by the intermediate cutting surface exceeds a lens thickness provided by the final cutting surface at least within the prescription zone; - machining said intermediate cutting surface on the back surface of the lens blank in said primary cutting phase; and - machining said final cutting surface on the back surface of the lens blank in said secondary cutting phase. - obtaining prescription data descriptive of an ophthalmic prescription of a user in the plus prescription range; - providing a lens blank having a convex front surface and a back surface; - determining a final cutting surface to be machined on the back surface of the lens blank in a secondary cutting phase; - obtaining frame data descriptive of a perimeter of a spectacle frame in which the lens is to be mounted; - determining an intermediate cutting surface to be machined on the back surface of the lens blank in a primary cutting phase, wherein the intermediate cutting surface is different from the final cutting surface; - wherein the final cutting surface comprises - a prescription zone, in which the final cutting surface together with the front surface fulfills the ophthalmic prescription of the user; and wherein a boundary perimeter of the prescription zone encloses the perimeter of the spectacle frame; and - a non-prescription blending zone surrounding the prescription zone; in which the final cutting surface together with the front surface provides at least a predetermined minimum thickness of the spectacle lens; - a prescription zone, in which the final cutting surface together with the front surface fulfills the ophthalmic prescription of the user; and wherein a boundary perimeter of the prescription zone encloses the perimeter of the spectacle frame; and - a non-prescription blending zone surrounding the prescription zone; in which the final cutting surface together with the front surface provides at least a predetermined minimum thickness of the spectacle lens; - wherein said intermediate cutting surface is determined based on the final cutting surface; wherein a maximum curvature of the intermediate cutting surface is smaller than a maximum curvature of the final cutting surface; and wherein a lens thickness provided by the intermediate cutting surface exceeds a lens thickness provided by the final cutting surface at least within the prescription zone; - machining said intermediate cutting surface on the back surface of the lens blank in said primary cutting phase; and - machining said final cutting surface on the back surface of the lens blank in said secondary cutting phase.