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Packaging and Pack Size

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Why it's important

  • reciProfity uses Pack Size to calculate the cost of an ingredient in a recipe.
  • Whether you upload an order guide or enter an ingredient manually you will tell reciProfity how you purchase this ingredient.

We need to know the following:

  • How many of this ingredient come packed together
  • Is it purchased by weight, volume or each
  • How is it all packed together.

How to do it

PACK SIZE is the smaller unit. Once reciProfity knows the unit the ingredient is purchased in the software can calculate any other weight or volume related to that unit.

 

If you purchase a product by the lb reciProfity can calculate any lb or oz usage in a recipe. If you purchase by volume, for example by the gallon, reciProfity can calculate the cost of any tsp, tbl, quart etc of that ingredient used in a recipe. You do NOT need to create a conversion.

By weight, kg or lb

 

4.54 kg in a case. (this can be lbs or ozs also). Now reciProfity can calculate the cost of the kg for use in a recipe. And you can count by kg or by case.


#10 Can

  • If you purchase 12 #10 cans of beans in a case,#10 is the Pack Size
  • Since a #10 can is volume once reciProfity know that anytime you use this bean in a recipe by ANY volume it can be priced correctly
  • You will also be able to count this ingredient by both the can and the case

 

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Weight

  • If you purchase 5 50 lbs bags of flour, 50 lbs is the Pack Size
  • lbs are weight, knowing how much you pay for 50 lbs of flour reciProfity can price out this ingredient in a recipe no matter how many ounces or lbs you use.
  • You can count flour by both the lb and the case

 

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Alternatively if you purchase bags and want to count both by a percentage of the bag and full bags you can enter it the following way:

 

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Each

  • If you purchase 24 ea of apples , ea is the Pack Size
  • You can count your apples by the ea or the case

    Use Conversions to manage trimming, slicing and dicing fruit and vegetables. This will allow you to use your apple in many ways in a recipe.

 

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Head

6 heads of lettuce packed in a box. Also works for cauliflower or anything that comes as a head. 

Another example of ingredients that can be used with Conversions.

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Catchweight

Catchweight, these are items purchased by the lb but received by different lb weight with each order.

Catchweight is usually for chicken, meat and fish.

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The big picture

 

How does reciProfity use the pack size in your recipes?

When you see the ingredient in View mode you can see that knowing the cost of the case, and what is in the case (2 50lb bags) reciProfity can now cost out the lb price. Once we know the lb price reciProfity can also cost out the ounce price.

 

So if you use flour by the oz reciProfity can calculate it for it!

If you want to use it by volume (cup etc)  create a weight to volume conversion using Conversions.

 

 

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Video

Watch the video to see how pack size is entered in an actual ingredient.

 

 

Still not sure how to enter your pack size?

  1. Use the built in Template.


 

 

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