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reciProfity uses two terms, Ingredients and Products. What do they mean and how are they different?
Why it's important
- Ingredients are a generic item like applesauce.
- Products are the specific ingredients you purchase from one vendor.
- Products contain pack size, which in turn help to price your ingredients.
When you purchase an ingredient we create that ingredient with it's product. The product has pack size and cost information.
What if I purchase the same item from multiple vendors?
For example if you purchase applesauce you may receive one applesauce product from one vendor and another, very similar applesauce product from another vendor.
How to do it
When you first upload order guides reciProfity creates one product for each ingredient.
If you’d like to keep both products together so you can compare prices you’ll make them both part of one ingredient.
reciProfity can merge like products into one ingredient
Learn how to use the merge function
Here is an example of what an ingredient would look like after merging:
The item name is Applesauce, Fancy
Below that are 2 products, Product #1 is from Sysco and Product #2 is from Ben E. Keith. Both are fancy applesauce.
Since they are packed differently we show you the price difference.
