ReciPal 2025 Year in Review
A Year of Momentum, Innovation, and Growth
2025 was a big year for ReciPal!
From major product upgrades to brand-new offerings and educational resources, this year was all about making nutrition labeling and inventory management faster, easier, and more flexible for the businesses that rely on us every day.
Here’s a look back at what we built, shipped, and shared — all driven by conversations with our customers.
🚀 Product Highlights
Faster Recipe Setup & Smarter Workflows
We focused heavily on reducing setup time and improving efficiency at scale:
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Jump Start Intelligent Ingredient Search
Copy and paste a complete ingredient list and automatically search and populate all ingredients at once. Recipe setup now takes just seconds. -
Bulk Actions
Tag recipes, download reports, or archive items in bulk. Designed for teams managing large recipe libraries. -
Template Ingredient Uploads
Add multiple custom ingredients at once using a simple spreadsheet template.
Better Label Creation & Customization
We made nutrition labels easier to preview, customize, and integrate into your packaging workflow:
- Label Preview – Instantly see exactly how your label will export without downloading it.
- Logos – Upload your company logo and include it directly in your label design.
- Barcodes – Generate barcodes within ReciPal and customize them for your label.
- Transparent Label Backgrounds – Seamlessly integrate labels into packaging designs and reduce design iteration time.
- Label Sizing Simplicity – View and adjust label dimensions before exporting.
Inventory, Reporting, and History Improvements
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Inventory Management Redesign
A fully revamped, mobile-friendly interface designed to work beautifully on any screen — plus updated tutorial videos. -
Automated Spec Sheets
Download a clean, one-page report with unrounded nutrition data per serving and per 100g. -
Recipe History Comments
Add context to recipe and pricing history changes by leaving comments explaining why updates were made.
✨ Little Wins That Add Up
Not every improvement gets a big announcement, but these smaller upgrades made everyday work smoother:
- Condensed View – Reduce white space and fit more information on screen.
- Set MSRP Directly in Costing – Enter your target price and let ReciPal calculate margins.
- Auto-Tagging – Automatically tag blank recipes and identify sub-recipes at a glance.
- Enhanced Search Display – See brand and calorie information when searching for ingredients.
🧩 New Offerings
AI Chat Support
We continue to prioritize human-led support, but during off hours we added best-in-class AI chat to quickly surface answers from our knowledge base.
Personal Nutrition Plans
We introduced an affordable plan designed for individuals using ReciPal to manage their own personal nutrition — all the essentials, without the complexity of a business workflow.
Connect With an Expert
Some customers wanted hands-on help in real time. This new 1:1 video conferencing option allows users to work side by side with a ReciPal expert to overcome obstacles and get answers fast.
📚 Education & Content
Use-Case Deep Dives
We published detailed guides based on real customer workflows across industries, including:
These resources distill best practices learned from working with thousands of food businesses.
Nutrition Labeling Course
We launched a free, structured nutrition labeling course with bite-sized lessons. Over 400 people completed the course in 2025 — and counting.
🧰 Free Tools for the Food Community
We built free, easy-to-use tools that address the most common questions we get asked and provide dynamic results.
- Label Templates – Enter your values and download labels.
- Canadian Front-of-Package Symbols – Widget for easily downloading required symbols.
- Net Quantity Statement Generator – Enter your product weight and instantly create FDA-compliant statements.
- Interactive Labeling Requirements Checklist – Answer a few questions about your business and find out exactly what applies to your product.
- Menu Maker – Turn label data into restaurant-ready menu nutrition reports.
- Supplement Facts Template – A simple way to generate complaint supplement facts (with big updates coming soon).
Looking Ahead to 2026
We’re incredibly proud of how ReciPal grew in 2025 — and even more excited about what’s ahead.
As always, our roadmap is shaped by conversations with our customers. Our mission remains the same: build reliable, easy-to-use software that reduces headaches and lets you focus on growing your business.
Have ideas, feature requests, or obstacles you’d like help overcoming? We’d love to hear from you.
Here’s to an even bigger 2026 📈
