Full feature breakdown

One platform.
Every feature your kitchen needs.

From recipe costing and allergen labels to food safety compliance (DDD, HACCP, corrective actions), stock management, production scheduling, and Business Insights — start with Essentials from £19/month or get everything with Core from £55/month.

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Recipe Management

Your entire recipe library, organised and always accurate.

Build and manage your full recipe library in one place. Every recipe stores ingredients, method, allergens, nutritional data, and HACCP notes — all linked to your ingredient database so updates flow through automatically.

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Centralised recipe library — store unlimited recipes with ingredients, quantities, method, allergen flags, and nutritional values all in one place.
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Ingredient & nutrition view — full macro and micronutrient breakdown per serving, calculated automatically from your ingredient data.
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Allergen tracking — allergens flagged automatically from your ingredient list. Contains / May Contain shown clearly.
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Method & HACCP notes — document preparation steps and critical control points for inspections and staff training.
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Always in sync — update an ingredient and allergen, nutrition, and label data updates across every recipe that uses it.

Recipe management software → What is recipe management? →

yourbusiness.foodcore.io/recipes

FoodCore recipe view showing ingredient list with nutritional breakdown per serving

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Recipe Costing Core

Know exactly what every recipe costs you.

FoodCore calculates batch cost, cost per serving, selling price, and gross margin automatically — so you always know whether a recipe is profitable before you make it.

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Batch cost & cost per serving — calculated live from your ingredient prices as you build or update each recipe.
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Selling price & gross margin — set your target price and see the margin percentage instantly. Numbers update when ingredient costs change.
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Cost vs. revenue tracking — see how each recipe performs across your menu so you can price confidently and cut waste.
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Waste & yield adjustment — factor in prep waste and cooking yield so your costs reflect what you actually use.

How to cost a recipe → Recipe cost calculator →

yourbusiness.foodcore.io/recipes

FoodCore recipe costing showing batch cost, cost per serving, selling price and gross margin

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Food Labels / Natasha's Law

PPDS labels in seconds. Legally correct, every time.

Design your own labels with a built-in drag-and-drop editor. Ingredient lists and allergen data pull straight from your recipe. Fully compliant with Natasha's Law (PPDS) and FIR 2014.

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Drag-and-drop label editor — position blocks for ingredients, allergens, nutrition, logo, and best-before exactly where you want them.
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Natasha's Law / PPDS compliant — full ingredient list with allergens automatically bolded, exactly as required for pre-packed for direct sale food.
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Export to PDF — download a print-ready PDF sized to your label stock. Works with any label printer.
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Always in sync — update a recipe ingredient and the label reflects it immediately.

Food labelling software → Natasha's Law guide →

yourbusiness.foodcore.io/labels

FoodCore label designer showing PPDS compliant label with allergens bolded

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Allergen Matrix

See all 14 allergens across your entire menu at a glance.

Build menus from your recipe library and generate a full allergen matrix automatically. Share it with customers, display it in your venue, or export it for food safety inspections.

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Drag-and-drop menu builder — organise recipes into sections and courses. Reorder with drag and drop.
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Auto-generated allergen matrix — all 14 allergens shown in a grid across every menu item, derived directly from your recipes.
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Shareable & printable — export to PDF or share a link. Always reflects your current recipes.
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No manual entry required — allergen data propagates automatically from your ingredient library.

Allergen matrix software →

yourbusiness.foodcore.io/menus

FoodCore allergen matrix showing all 14 allergens across every menu item in a grid

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Stock Management Core

Never run out of an ingredient mid-production again.

Track ingredient stock levels in real time. Set reorder thresholds and get low-stock alerts before you run out — so you're never caught short mid-production.

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Real-time stock levels — current quantity on hand for every ingredient, updated as production runs complete.
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Low-stock alerts — set a reorder threshold per ingredient. FoodCore flags anything that falls below it.
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Stock deducted on production — when a production run completes, ingredient quantities are deducted automatically.
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Supplier-sorted shopping lists — generate purchase lists grouped by supplier from your planned production.

Stock management guide →

yourbusiness.foodcore.io/stock

FoodCore stock management showing ingredient levels with low-stock alerts

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Production Scheduling Core

Plan your kitchen like clockwork.

Schedule production runs against your recipe library. When a run completes, ingredient stock is deducted automatically — keeping your stock levels accurate without any manual entry.

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Scheduled production runs — plan what you're making and when. Assign recipes and batch quantities to each run.
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Automatic stock deduction — mark a run as complete and ingredient quantities are deducted from stock automatically.
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Linked to orders — production runs can be tied to customer orders so fulfilment is tracked end-to-end.
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Production notes & batch records — document batch references and HACCP notes for food safety compliance.

Production scheduling guide →

yourbusiness.foodcore.io/production

FoodCore production scheduling showing scheduled runs with batch quantities

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Meal Planning Core

Plan meals weeks ahead with nutrient and budget tracking.

Calendar-based meal planner with nutrient and budget tracking. Plan meals across days or weeks, assign recipes to each slot, and see nutritional totals and cost per day — ideal for care homes, schools, and catering operations.

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Calendar-based planning — assign recipes to breakfast, lunch, and dinner slots across any date range.
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Nutrient tracking — daily and weekly nutritional totals calculated automatically from your recipe data.
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Budget tracking — cost per meal and per day so you can plan within budget without a spreadsheet.
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Reusable meal plans — save and duplicate plans, useful for rotating weekly menus.

Meal planning for care & catering →

yourbusiness.foodcore.io/meal-planning

FoodCore meal planning module with calendar-based planner and nutrient tracking

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Business Insights Core

Data-driven decisions, without the spreadsheet headache.

Understand what's happening in your kitchen, what it's costing you, and what needs action. Business Insights covers costs, waste, carbon footprint, nutrition, production trends, team activity and a full audit log for compliance.

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Cost analytics — revenue, cost of goods, and margin trends over time. Identify which recipes drive the most profit.
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Waste tracking — log and monitor ingredient waste. Understand where losses are occurring and reduce them.
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Carbon footprint — estimated carbon impact per recipe, useful for sustainability reporting.
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Audit log — full record of changes to recipes, labels, and ingredients — timestamped and user-attributed for food safety compliance.

Analytics guide →

yourbusiness.foodcore.io/analytics

FoodCore analytics dashboard showing cost, waste, carbon and nutrition tabs

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Food Safety Core

Your food hygiene compliance, all in one place.

Built for UK food businesses that need to stay inspection-ready without the paperwork pile. The Food Safety module covers your daily due diligence, HACCP documentation, temperature monitoring, corrective actions and prerequisite programmes — with a one-click PDF export for EHO visits.

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Daily Due Diligence (DDD) — calendar view with colour-coded completion status. Run configurable Opening, Closing and Delivery check sessions with yes/no, temperature and signature fields. Failed check auto-raises a corrective action.
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HACCP plans — digital HACCP documentation with process steps, hazard assessments, critical control points and monitoring records. Structured for UK food safety law.
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Corrective action register — log every breach with product, batch code, action taken, root cause, disposition and resolution status. Open actions surface as alerts on the Business Insights food safety tab.
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Monitoring records & PRPs — log temperature checks, cleaning schedules and prerequisite programmes (pest control, allergen management, supplier approval, staff training) outside daily sessions.
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Export to PDF — generate a dated compliance report of all DDD sessions, monitoring records and corrective actions for any date range. Ready for environmental health inspections.
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Configurable temperature thresholds — set fridge and freezer names, locations, and min/max temps; configure cooking, hot-hold and cooling limits used across all HACCP records.

Daily due diligence guide → HACCP plan guide →

yourbusiness.foodcore.io/food-safety

FoodCore food safety dashboard showing daily due diligence calendar with completion status

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Barcode Ingredient Import

Stop typing out nutrition labels by hand.

Point your phone camera at any product barcode and FoodCore pulls the product name, brand, full nutrition panel, allergen information and composite ingredients automatically. Powered by Open Food Facts — millions of products in the database.

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Instant barcode scanning via phone camera — no app download required. Works in any mobile browser on iPhone or Android.
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Auto-fills name, brand, nutrition, allergens & ingredients — full nutrition per 100g, all 14 allergens detected, and composite ingredients list — all from a single scan.
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Review queue before it goes live — scanned products land in a review queue. Verify the data, add your supplier and price, then confirm into your library.
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Powered by Open Food Facts — millions of food products in the database. Products not found can be entered manually.

Learn more about barcode import →

yourbusiness.foodcore.io/ingredients/scan

Scan a barcode

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Point camera at barcode

Matched product

Found

Odlums Plain Flour

Per 100g: 357kcal · 10.2g protein · 73.4g carbs · 1.4g fat

Contains Gluten

Hosting model

Your data. Your instance. Not shared with anyone.

Most SaaS tools put all their customers in one shared database. Your data sits alongside tens of thousands of others, and if something goes wrong, it affects everyone.

FoodCore works differently. Every customer gets their own isolated instance — a separate application running on its own subdomain. Your recipes, labels, orders, and customer data are yours, isolated, and not shared with anyone.

Your FoodCore address

yourbusiness.foodcore.io

Want your own domain? If you'd prefer app.yourbusiness.co.uk, that's available as an add-on.

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Private subdomain

yourbusiness.foodcore.io is yours and only yours. SSL certificate included, automatically renewed.

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Isolated data

Your data is not in a shared database. It can't be accidentally exposed to another customer.

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Set up in 24 hours

We provision your instance and send you a link. No technical setup required on your end.

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Custom domain add-on

Use your own domain (app.yourbusiness.co.uk) for a polished, professional presence.

Simple pricing

Compare plans

Both plans include a 7-day free trial. No credit card required.

Feature	ESSENTIALS £19 /month	CORE £55 /month
Unlimited recipes & ingredients	✓	✓
Recipe costing (cost per portion)	✓	✓
Natasha's Law PPDS labels	✓	✓
Allergen matrix (all 14 allergens)	✓	✓
Barcode ingredient import	✓	✓
Supplier-sorted shopping lists	✓	✓
Team members	1 member	Unlimited
Sites	1 site	Multi-site
Stock management & low-stock alerts	—	✓
Production scheduling	—	✓
Order management	—	✓
Business Insights & analytics	—	✓
Meal planning	—	✓
Role-based team management	—	✓
Daily due diligence checks (DDD)	—	✓
HACCP plans & monitoring records	—	✓
Corrective action register	—	✓
Food safety PDF export (EHO-ready)	—	✓
Priority support	—	✓
	Start free trial	Start free trial

Common questions

Got questions?

Anything else? Email info@foodcore.io

Is FoodCore actually Natasha's Law compliant?

Yes. FoodCore generates PPDS (pre-packed for direct sale) labels with a full ingredient list, allergens bolded in the ingredient list exactly as required by Natasha's Law. The allergen data is derived directly from your recipe ingredients — there's no separate allergen form to fill in. You remain responsible for the accuracy of your ingredient data.

Where is my data stored and who can see it?

Your instance runs on a server in the UK (DigitalOcean, London region). Your data is in an isolated container — it's not in a shared database and is not accessible to other FoodCore customers. We can access your instance for support purposes, but we don't sell or share your data with third parties.

What happens if I cancel?

Cancel any time — there's no minimum contract period on the monthly plan. Before your instance is shut down, we'll give you a full data export so you keep your recipes, labels, and order history.

Can I migrate from my current system?

If you're working from spreadsheets, we can help import your recipe and ingredient data during setup. Send us your spreadsheet and we'll sort it. We also support migration from tools like Kafoodle — export from your current tool and import directly, recipes and allergens come across automatically.

Do I need any technical knowledge to use it?

No. You get a link to your FoodCore instance and a login. It runs in any browser — no app to install, no updates to manage. We handle all the technical side.

Is there a free trial?

Yes — 7 days free, no credit card required. Sign up and your instance is ready within 24 hours. If you'd prefer a guided demo first, just email us.

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Essentials from £19/month. Core from £55/month. 7-day free trial, no card required. Your own private instance, up and running within 24 hours.

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One platform.Every feature your kitchen needs.