User guide
Core features
Planning and making, orders, shopping, recipes, allergens, pricing and reports, once you're past the basics.
- Using the Production planThis article explains what the Production plan shows and how to work through it.
- Using made stockThis article explains how MakrPrep keeps track of things you've made extra of, and how to use them for other orders.
- Splitting a batch into partsThis article helps you split one line on the Production plan into parts, each with its own status, for example when 60 of 100 pies are prepped and 40 are still in the oven.
- Completing and reverting productionThis article explains what happens when you mark something made, and how to undo it.
- Using Recipes to prepThis article helps you work through what you're making, recipe by recipe, with everything scaled to the right amount.
- Component poolingThis article explains how MakrPrep adds up a shared component, like a dough or a filling, across every recipe that uses it.
- Printing the Production planThis article helps you print your Production plan as a prep sheet, or save it as a PDF.
- Managing ordersThis article helps you find, change and keep track of your orders.
- Repeat ordersThis article helps you save orders you make again and again, like a weekly market or a café's standing order.
- Importing from a spreadsheetThis article helps you bring in lots of ingredients, recipes, customers or orders at once instead of typing them in.
- Generating and reading your shopping listThis article helps you see what to buy and record what you bought.
- Exporting and sharing the shopping listThis article helps you print, download or email your shopping list.
- Tracking low-stock ingredientsThis article explains how MakrPrep keeps track of ingredient stock and decides what's running low.
- Building and editing recipesThis article covers everything you can do in the Recipe book.
- Using componentsThis article helps you set up components: sub-recipes like doughs, fillings and sauces that you use in several recipes.
- Understanding allergen labelsThis article explains how MakrPrep works out a recipe's allergens and builds its ingredient statement.
- Understanding pricing tiers and suggested pricesThis article explains how price lists, suggested prices and your actual prices fit together.
- Managing your ingredient catalogueThis article covers the Ingredients page day to day.
- Managing suppliers and customersThis article covers the Suppliers and Customers pages.
- ReportsThis article explains what the Reports page shows and how to use it.