In addition to our nutrition label maker, many of you use ReciPal for managing and storing your recipes. And as a result, some of you have asked about getting the recipes you add to ReciPal in a format you can easily use and share offline as well as being able to share with your read-only account members. You've always been able to export the information for a recipe to a spreadsheet, but now you can also view and print a formatted version right from your dashboard.

Navigating to the Recipe Card

We've added a new page that we call a "Recipe Card". You can access this page from the pages menu for each recipe on the Recipe Dashboard and also from the "More" tab of the navigation header for each recipe (it's just called "card").

The Recipe Card Itself

Just click on that, and you'll see a page with all the pertinent information for that recipe, including:

• Ingredients
• Amounts
• Prep instructions
• Servings
• Ingredient statement
• Allergens
• Photo/Image (especially useful for plating/packaging instructions)

These elements can be re-arranged in any order you want them to appear by clicking on the up and down arrows to move their positions. If you don't want to include one of these elements just click the "hide" checkbox. And we give the option to increase or decrease the display size to make sure that everything prints neatly and fits your team's needs.

The ingredients will be in the order you entered them on the Edit page, but you can drag and drop them into any order on the Edit page, and that will be reflected on the recipe card as well.

We have a scaling feature inside the recipe card that is perfect for production teams. In the serving section you can choose to scale the recipe by a factor (i.e., 10x) or by a specific number of packages you want to produce. Once you apply the scaling the ingredient amounts and the recipe yield will automatically be adjusted. This feature allows teams to see exactly what they need for different sized productions without needing to change the core recipe or make a copy.

You can add preparation instructions from the Advanced section of the Edit page of the recipe, allergens can be adjusted from the Allergen page, and you can set the Ingredient Statement on the ingredient statement page as always.

To print, just hit CTRL+P or CMD+P like you'd print anything else on your computer. Alternatively, we have the option to export the recipe card as PDF file.

Use Cases

This feature is a great addition for production team members who need view-only access to recipes (and don't have access to the Edit page), for kitchen staff and team members who need printed recipe information, and for anyone who needs a hard-copy compilation of their recipes.

We think this is a good default list of information, but if you really need to customize a format you can always download the recipe information to a spreadsheet and work off that.

Let us know if you have other ideas to enhance the recipe card feature!