🍽️ Recipes for Ingredient-Based Items

What Recipes are used for?

Recipes are ideal for items like sandwiches, rolls, or any product made up of multiple stocked ingredients.

When a recipe-based item is sold, the system automatically reduces the stock levels of each ingredient based on the quantity used. This keeps your inventory accurate — especially if you're using or planning to use automatic ordering.

Create the item first

Before building a recipe, you’ll need to create the item that will be sold.

Go to Item Maintenance, create the product, and take note of the item number — you’ll need it when setting up the recipe.

Add a recipe to the item

Go to the Items tab and open Recipes.

Click Add, then enter the item number for the product you just created.

Add ingredients to the recipe

In the recipe window, click Add (bottom left).

Enter the item number of each ingredient — or click Find to search for it — and enter the quantity used in the recipe.

• If you enter a decimal (e.g. 0.5), the quantity field will show it as 1, but the system still calculates the correct cost and stock reduction in the background.

• Once you’ve entered all ingredients, click OK.

You can repeat this for as many ingredients as needed.

Optional adjustments

If the recipe cost doesn’t look right, click ReCost all Recipes to update cost calculations.

You can also choose to print the recipe if needed.

Send the recipe to your registers

Once done:

• Send changes to your registers

• Add the recipe item to the appropriate register screen

Need help?

If you are having trouble setting up recipe-based items, please submit a ticket in our support portal.