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reciProfity uses your ingredient costs to price recipes and monitor changes over time. The way you enter purchase details directly affects how accurately the system reflects your food costs.
When ingredient prices shift, so do your margins. Are costs going up? By how much? Which recipes are affected? reciProfity maps those changes to your recipes, so you can see the cost impact and decide what to adjust.
Ingredients and Pack Size
Before you start entering data, make sure you understand two key concepts:
- Understanding the Difference Between Ingredients and Products
- What is Pack Size and Why is it Important
These articles explain how reciProfity defines ingredients, how they relate to vendor products, and how Pack Size affects cost calculations.
Entering Ingredients into reciProfity
You can enter ingredients manually or upload vendor order guides. For more information on using order guides to populate ingredients, read this.
Manual entry helps you understand how Pack Size works and how your vendor data maps to reciProfity fields. Uploading order guides lets you import products in bulk, but it increases the risk of duplicates—especially when the same ingredient appears under different names or formats.
If duplicates appear, use the Merge Ingredients feature to consolidate them and keep your data clean.
Conversions
Conversions make your costs accurate. They account for shrinkage, yield, and unit differences so your pricing reflects reality.
Ingredients vs. Products
In reciProfity, ingredients are what you use in recipes. Products are what you buy from vendors.
One ingredient—like “large eggs”—can be linked to multiple products from different vendors. The recipe doesn’t care where the eggs come from. It just needs large eggs.
If you create separate ingredients for each vendor’s eggs, you’ll have to update every recipe whenever your supplier changes. Instead, create one ingredient and connect all related vendor products to it. Each vendor item is a product. They don’t have to be packaged the same way—one might be 15 dozen, another 30. reciProfity will handle the differences.
Unit Conversions
reciProfity handles unit conversions automatically. If you buy an ingredient in pounds but use it in grams, the system converts the cost for you. Same goes for gallons to liters, or any other weight-to-volume or volume-to-weight shift.
When your purchase and recipe units match—like pounds to kilograms or gallons to liters—no conversion is needed. But if you buy by weight and use by volume (or the other way around), reciProfity calculates the cost of any amount you use: teaspoons, tablespoons, quarts, liters, fluid ounces—whatever the recipe calls for.
Built-in Book of Yields
reciProfity includes:
- A Book of Yields with over 1,000 tested raw ingredients
- Weight-to-volume and volume-to-weight conversions for more than 1,500 ingredients
- Yield and shrinkage calculations that adjust the true cost of your ingredients
Conversions let you buy in one unit and use in another without losing accuracy. Click here to watch a video on conversions.
Merging Ingredients
You can use Merge Ingredients to clean up duplicate ingredient entries—like when the same item is entered multiple times under different names or packaging. If you buy the same ingredient from different vendors—or in different sizes—you don’t need separate entries. Merge them into one. reciProfity keeps all the product details, including packaging sizes, linked to a single ingredient. This keeps your data clean and your recipes consistent.