Ingredient Portal: the manufacturers’ catalogue
All plans
Search products published by manufacturers and distributors and import them into your catalogue with their allergens, nutrition and technical sheet, without typing.
What it is for
The Ingredient Portal is a catalogue of products published on Recipok by the manufacturers themselves. Each product comes with its allergens, its nutrition information and, often, its technical sheet. Instead of typing all of that, you import it with one click into your ingredient list.
It is useful when you are getting started and have lots of ingredients to add, and every time you buy a new product from a manufacturer that publishes on Recipok. The data comes from whoever makes the product, not from an estimate.
Before you start
- The portal is available on all plans, under Ingredients › Ingredients Portal.
- Have your purchase price to hand: the one the manufacturer shows, if any, may not be yours.
Search the catalogue
At the top you have the search box and the filters: Filter by company (the manufacturer), Filter by family and Exclude the following allergens, to see only products without, for example, nuts. Clear filters shows everything again. As you scroll down, more products load.
Each card shows the photo, name, description, allergens (and traces), the manufacturer and its town and, if the manufacturer allows it, the price.
Cacao Sur · Seville
Soy Milk (traces)
Cacao Sur · Seville
No allergens
Cacao Sur · Seville
Soy Milk
- 1Exclude allergens: hides the products that contain the allergens you choose.
- 2Import creates the ingredient in your list with all its data. The card changes to “Imported”.
Import a product
Click “Import”
Recipok creates the ingredient in My ingredients with the manufacturer’s data: allergens, nutrition, format, codes, photo and technical sheet.
Add the manufacturer as a supplier
If the manufacturer is not yet one of your suppliers, Recipok asks “Do you want to add … as a supplier?”. Click Confirm and it is added to your suppliers, linked to the ingredient.
Check it and set your price
Hover over the card and click Edit: the ingredient sheet opens. Check the purchase price, the supplier and the allergens, and save.
Without opening the portal: matches when you create an ingredient
You don’t need to go to the portal every time. When you create an ingredient in My ingredients and type its name, Recipok shows the Matches from the ingredient Portal. If you pick one, the sheet is filled in with its data (“Data filled in from the portal ingredient. Review and save.”).
If you are a manufacturer: publish your products
Manufacturer accounts have the Information and advertising tab on the ingredient sheet. Tick Public product so it appears on the portal, add a Product description, an External link, Keywords and the Family, and decide whether you want to Show price (the recommended retail price or the wholesale price). In the same place you see the Views and Clicks each product gets.
Tips
Even though the data comes from the manufacturer, check the allergens against the sheet that comes with your order. If the manufacturer changes the recipe, your ingredient is not updated automatically.
For raw materials whose manufacturer is not on the portal, use the template import and then read their technical sheets.