# How to add your ingredients

Add each ingredient once, with who you buy it from, how much is in one package and what you pay for it. Prophitable works out its cost per gram, and every recipe that uses it is costed from that.

Source: https://www.prophitable.io/help/cost/ingredients (updated 2026-10-29)

## Add an ingredient

1. Go to **Ingredients** and click **Add Ingredient**.
2. Under **General Information**, enter the **Name** and the **Shelf Life**. UPC, Brand and Description are optional.
3. Under **Package Size**, enter the **Net Quantity Per Unit**, which is how much one package holds. Copy it from the label: a 1,362 g bag of almond flour holds 1,362 g.
   - If your recipes measure it in cups or tablespoons, add an **Ingredient Density** so those convert to grams.
   - If you count it instead of weighing it (eggs, lemons), choose **pc** and enter the **Weight Per Piece**.

   ![The Package Size card for almond flour: 1,362 g per unit](https://www.prophitable.io/_astro/ingredients-package-size.CQxXBcBt.png)

4. Under **Purchasing**, choose the **Supplier** (not in the list yet? click **Add Supplier**), then enter what you pay:
   - **Unit**: the price of one package, the smallest one you'd open during production.
   - **Case**: if you buy it by the case, the case price and the **Units per Case**.

   If you buy it both ways, fill in both. Prophitable uses whichever costs less per gram.

   ![The Purchasing card: Costco Wholesale, $11.79 a bag, which works out to $0.0087 a gram](https://www.prophitable.io/_astro/ingredients-purchasing.DeVk_9um.png)

5. Click **Save**.

Save won't go through until the ingredient has a name, a supplier, a shelf life, a net quantity and a price, because its cost is worked out from them.

## What you'll see

The ingredient's cost per gram is on the Ingredients list, in the **Cost / Gram** column. The almond flour above costs $11.79 for 1,362 g, so it shows **$0.0087**. Any recipe that uses 100 g of it carries $0.87 of almond flour.

When the price changes, edit it and save. Prophitable lists the recipes and products that use the ingredient, and **Update All** re-costs them.

> [!TIP]
> When almond flour goes up, change its price once. Every recipe and product that uses it shows the new cost and profit, so there's no spreadsheet to re-price line by line.

## Stock is optional for now

You don't need to enter what's on your shelf to get costs. When a purchase order arrives, receiving it adds the stock for you. To count what you have today, open the ingredient, go to **Stock** and click **Add Stock**.

## Have a lot of ingredients?

Click **Import** on the Ingredients page and upload the spreadsheet you already keep. You'll see what it read and can fix anything before it's saved.