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It is not essential to input ingredient information, however, if you do, you will be able to keep track of your ingredient stock as their attributed items are used. You will only input ingredient information if you wish to manage ingredient stock.

For example, if you want to record how many eggs you use, you will need to input eggs as a product, and then assign it to the items where it is used (eg. eggs benedict, omelette).

If you also want to use the Preparation List function (Stock Management App) to forecast how much ingredient stock you need in the future, you should also consider creating Working Items.

You will first need to add the ingredients as products to the products list.

1. Navigate to Products > Add Product.

2. Fill in the product name, product code, and Save. (This will make more fields appear.) Then, select the Ingredient type.

Scroll down and input the price and cost.

3. Click Save.

4. Navigate to the Stock Management tab within the Product Details.

5. Link the ingredient to its associated Supplier and Location, then scroll down to Stock Quantity.

6. Fill in the safety stock, ordering quantity, stock factor, unit, and tick Stock Item.

7. Click Save.

Eg. the item to which we wish to assign the egg ingredient is the egg sandwich, so we will access the product details of the egg sandwich.

2. Navigate to the Stock Management tab within the Product Details.

Scroll down to Ingredients.

3. Click Add Ingredient, and under Name, enter the ingredient product. Only products which have been set as the ingredient type will appear as options in this field. Set the Quantity to however many units of the product will be used in producing the item.

Eg. 1 egg will be used in producing an egg sandwich, so the quantity is 1. Even though the ingredient product is a dozen eggs, the system will know that we are referring to the usage of one egg alone (rather than the usage of one dozen eggs) because in the carton egg product details, we set the Stock Factor as 12, which set the product unit as 1 egg.

Creating the ingredient:

Product Item ÷ Stock Factor = Product Unit

i.e. 12 eggs ÷ 12 = 1 egg

Assigning the ingredient:

Product Unit × Quantity = Amount of Ingredient Used When Producing Item

i.e. Egg sandwich: 1 egg × 1 = 1

If a different item, such as crêpe, requires 2 eggs to produce, set the stock management ingredient quantity as 2 in the crêpe product details.

4. Click Save.

Repeat these steps for any other products that use the same ingredient(s).

Now that you have created the ingredients and assigned them to their products, you can manage the stock!