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How to add outputs

Sell one recipe in several sizes or flavors? Add each one as an output on the recipe, with its size and anything extra it needs. Prophitable works out how many one batch makes and what each one costs.

Updated Oct 29, 20261 min

Add an output

Outputs live on the recipe they're made from, so there's no separate page for them.

  1. Go to Recipes and open a recipe that makes Portions. (A Whole Item recipe is sold as it is, so it has no outputs.)
  2. Under Outputs, click Add Output. It stays greyed out until the recipe itself can be saved, with its name, shelf life and ingredients.
  3. Enter the output's Name, such as Small, Large or Chocolate.
  4. Enter its Size: how much one unit weighs or measures. 9 oz of caramel is 255 g.
  5. Check the Shelf Life. It starts as the recipe's own, and you can change it.
  6. If this size needs more than the recipe itself, turn on Additional Ingredients (a topping, a coating) or Assembly Steps (filling, decorating) and add them.
  7. Click Save.

Each output needs a name, a size and a shelf life before the recipe will save.

What you'll see

Recipe Makes shows how many of this output one batch makes, and the bottom of the output shows its Cost / Unit. The caramel recipe makes 1,893 g a batch at $0.0106 a gram, so the 9 oz output (255 g) makes 7 per batch at $2.70 each.

Closed, each output reads as one line, like 9oz 255 g | 7 per batch | $2.70 each. Click it to open it again.

One size of each?

You don't need outputs. A product can use a Portions recipe straight from the batch, by weight. In the Getting Started guide, skip this step with I make one size of each.