Recipe Products
Creating a Recipe Product type in Supply’d lets you accurately track ingredient usage and costs, ensuring precise inventory control and better visibility of margins.
A Recipe Product is a product that is made up of multiple components (ingredients or items) and is designed for situations where selling the finished product should also deduct the required quantities of each component from inventory.
It’s especially useful for foodservice or retail where products are built from ingredients or parts, and you need accurate stock tracking.
Key Features
Defined Components (Ingredients)
A Recipe Product has a list of items (with specific quantities) that make up the final product.
Example: A “Burger” recipe might include a bun, patty, lettuce, onion, tomato and sauce.
Automatic Inventory Deduction
When you sell a Recipe Product, Supply’d automatically deducts the right amounts of each ingredient from stock.
This keeps inventory levels accurate without manual adjustments.
Cost Tracking
The cost of the Recipe Product is calculated from the costs of its components.
This helps with pricing, profit analysis, and cost control.
Flexibility
Recipe Products can be used in sales orders, production runs, or bundled with other items.
Great for cafes or restaurants who need to manage raw materials and finished goods.
For Example:
A burger can be made up of:
1 × 50g Burger Bun
1 × 86g Beef Patty
20g Lettuce
20g Tomato
30ml Burger Sauce
This document takes you through the process of adding a Recipe Product.
Creating a Recipe Product
Before adding a Recipe product, you must first set up the individual components/products that will be included in it.
In our example below, we are creating a Burger that is made up:
1 × Burger Bun
1 × Beef Burger Patty
Cos Lettuce
Tomato
Burger Sauce
So we have set all these up as individual products in Supply’d.
Complete Product Details & Custom Fields
Complete the Product Details and any optional Custom Fields sections, as explained in the Adding & Updating Products document.
Labelling Details
👉 Refer to the Labelling Details document for instructions on how to complete this section.
Recipe Items
This section will only show when Recipe is selected as the Product Type.
To add items to a recipe, click Edit Items.
You will be prompted to save your product before adding/editing any items. Click
.
The Edit Recipe Items form will open.
Click on, or type in, the field that says Type Product Name to display a list of your products and ingredients. For our example of a Classic Beef Burger, we need to add a bun, a burger, lettuce, tomato and burger sauce. In the example below, we are adding the bun.
Select the first item and click 
.
A form will open for you to add the quantity.
Complete the fields as follows:
Quantity
How much of this item is used in this stage.
For example, you use 20g of a 100g lettuce in this stage. The Quantity would be 0.2.
Measurement
How much of this item is used in this stage. For example, you use 20g of lettuce in this stage.
You can enter the amount here and the Quantity will automatically calculate for you.
The top fields display the total size and cost of the recipe. As you add items, these figures update to show the combined size and cost.
Repeat the above steps for all items in the recipe.
Click
to add all the selected items to the recipe.
The items will appear in the Recipe Items section with the amount and cost of each item used and the total Recipe Cost.
Additional Options for Recipe Items
Prior to saving, or when editing the Recipe Items, clicking on the 3 dots in the top right will display a menu.
Save Items
Saves the recipe items. This is an alternative to using the 
button at the bottom of the page.
Copy Items From
The Copy Items From option lets you copy recipe items and their quantities from an existing product into the current recipe product. This is helpful when creating a new recipe that is similar to an existing one.
Instead of manually adding each recipe item, you can select an existing product and automatically duplicate its items. Once copied, you can adjust the quantities or remove items as needed to match the new recipe.
Benefits:
Saves time by copying items and quantities from an existing recipe.
Reduces errors and ensures consistency.
Makes it easy to create similar recipe products quickly.
Example:
You already have a recipe product called “Cheeseburger” that includes:
1 × 50g Burger Bun
1 × 86g Beef Patty
20g Lettuce
20g Tomato
20g Cheese
30g Onion
20ml Burger Sauce
When creating the new recipe product called "Classic Beef Burger", you can use the Copy Items From option to copy all items and quantities from the original recipe. You then simply add or adjust items (for example, remove the cheese and onion, and change the sauce quantity) instead of building the recipe from scratch.
Click on, or type in, the Copy From Product* field to show a list of your products to choose from, eg. Cheeseburger.
Click
to add these items to the current recipe.You will be asked to confirm as this will override any items you may have already entered.
Edit any changes required after the items have been copied.
Import Items
Selecting this opens the Import Production Items form allowing you to upload a list of production items from a CSV file, instead of entering them one by one. This is a quick way to set up or update items in bulk, especially helpful when working with a large number of products.
Click Download the template. The Export Production Items form will open.
Select Sample Data from the Data Source menu and click
to download the template.
Open the template in a spreadsheet application such as Excel or Numbers and complete the fields in the spreadsheet.
You should remove the sample products from the file before importing it into Supply’d to prevent them from being added to your bundle.
Once completed, export or save the file as a CSV (comma-separated values) file.
Return to Supply’d, open the Import Production Items, upload the completed CSV file, click
and follow the on-screen prompts to confirm the import.
After the import completes, review the details to ensure the information has been imported correctly and make any changes required.
👉 The import process is explained in more detail in the Production Items section of the Creating a Production Product document.
Sell Product? & Remaining Sections
👉 Refer to the Adding & Updating Products document for details on how to complete this and all remaining sections.
Editing a Recipe Product
If you would like to edit a product:
Select Products from the main menu.
Click on the product you want to edit.
Click on the 3 dots in the top right and select Edit Product.
The Edit Product form will open.
Change any details as required following the guidelines above for Creating a Recipe Product.
Click 
to apply the changes.
Removing a Recipe Product
If you would like to remove a product:
Select Products from the main menu.
Click on the product you want to remove.
Click on the 3 dots in the top right and select Remove Product.
You will be asked to confirm. Click 
.
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