Tips & Tricks

To incorporate labor costs into your recipes, you have several different options, but let's start with the basics. The most important thing to know is this: Labor is an ingredient, just like any other ingredient. The advantage of treating labor like

A lot of times you might want to create or update many ingredients simultaneously without having to create or edit each one individually. You can use our bulk create / bulk update feature for this!There are many columns and pieces of data in Ingredie

You can download your recipes nutrition labels as images (png or jpg) for using in custom labels or menus, emailing to customers, creating spec sheets, or whatever else you need them for.Once you download this image, your browser will open the image

When you create an ingredient in Recipe Cost Calculator, you create it using a specific type of unit. This is usually either a weight (lb, kg, gram, oz) or a volume (litre, quart, pint, etc.).It is not possible to automatically convert weight to volu

Sometimes you may want to revalue your raw materials inventory based on your most recent pricing. There are a few reasons for this:Adjustments to your business balance sheetYou made a mistake on your ingredient pricing when counting inventory, and no

Sometimes you want to be able to scale your recipes larger or smaller. Using Recipe Cost Calculator to scale your recipes up or down is a snap. From viewing any recipe, you will see a "Scale Recipe" button in the title area to the right of the recipe

Sometimes you want to create a copy or a duplicate of a recipe.You can easily duplicate existing recipes (for example, if you have recipes that are similar to each other, but you don't want to start creating the recipe from scratch).When viewing any

Some ingredients you use may contain a portion that is not usable (or would be considered ingredient waste). In the case of vegetables, this might be peels. In the case of meat, it might be bones. Whatever the ingredient is - you can factor in the am

Learn how to use your own currency symbol (something other than $)If you live somewhere in this big, beautiful world that does not use dollars ($) for currency, welcome!In Recipe Cost Calculator you can choose an alternative currency symbol in your a

If you can't find an ingredient in the nutrient database, you can easily enter it manually.Some customers have unique ingredients that they can not find in the nutrition database, but still would like to create nutrition labels for their recipes.In t

You want to customize how your ingredients display their price/unit (e.g. "I want my ingredients to show price per lb not price per oz") Many customers purchase an ingredient based on some unit of measure (e.g. lbs), but they want the ingredient to d

In Recipe Cost Calculator, your recipe spec sheet pages and nutrition labels may contain recipe ingredient lists.There are several types of ingredients you may not want to show up in a given recipes ingredient list. These might be labor, packaging or

Read this article if you're trying to find specific branded products or ingredients in the nutrient database.  We occasionally hear from customers that they are unable to find specific ingredients they are looking for in the nutrient database.

Sometimes the order that you add your ingredients to your recipes is not the order that you want them to appear on your screen or on your printed versions of your recipes.You can very easily change and re-order ingredients in your recipes. We'll show

Using Ingredient Categories in Recipe Cost Calculator is a helpful way to keep your ingredients organized, and also provide some helpful underlying organizational features.You can access your ingredient and recipe categories from the primary navigati

If you need to replace one ingredient in your recipe with another ingredient, you can do it in just a few clicks.When you are viewing any recipe, you can click on the "Swap" arrows for whatever ingredient you'd like to swap out. The next screen will