Add and edit ingredients

Ingredients are everything you buy, store and count. Recipes, orders, counts and waste all use them.

Add an ingredient

  1. Open Ingredients and click Add Ingredient.
  2. Enter the name, then pick a Category and Cost Centre. You can create a new one from the same form.
  3. Pick a Supplier if you have one.
  4. Set the units: Stock unit is how you buy and count it (kg), Recipe unit is how recipes use it (g), and Per stock unit is how many recipe units make one stock unit (1000).
  5. Enter the Unit cost per stock unit, and Par min and Par max.
  6. Enter Current on hand to set its opening stock.
  7. Save.

Edit or delete an ingredient

  1. Click the ingredient to open it.
  2. Click Edit details to change its name, cost centre, category, supplier, cost or par levels, then Save changes.
  3. To remove it, click Delete ingredient while editing.