Recipe Cost Calculator

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Overview

About Recipe Cost Calculator

Recipe Cost Calculator was designed for food business owner and operators who want software that is both powerful and also easy to use. We've worked hard to create an extremely intuitive interface to help you manage your ingredients, suppliers, recipes, nutrition data (add-on), inventory (add-on) and more. With Recipe Cost Calculator, you only need to pay for the features that offer the most value to your business. The primary types of businesses that can benefit from Recipe Cost Calculator are: Restaurants Small and medium food manufacturers / producers Catering companies Bakeries Retail shops (cafe, coffee, etc.) We have powerful tools to help you manage all aspects of your costing, including tools to help you set margins, sell prices, easily update costs, print instructions, generate shopping lists and more. Try Recipe Cost Calculator for free and upgrade to a paid plan only when you need to based on your usage. Our support is legendary and we have a wide variety of online help content in both text and video form. Let us help you succeed in running your food business.

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Recipe Cost Calculator Features

Features of Recipe Cost Calculator
Barcoding/RFID
Billing & Invoicing
Cost Tracking
Inventory Management
Multi-Location
Order Management
Purchase Order Management
Reorder Management
Reporting/Analytics
SKU/UPC Codes

Customer Reviews

See why people love Recipe Cost Calculator

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4 Star
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Kishoree B.

Kishoree B.

Verified User

Food Production · 2-10 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years
Dec 22, 2025

A Necessary Tool for Any Small Business Owner!

I can't say enough good things about it. I upgraded almost instantly and never looked back. I have advised many people in my industry to use it and those who have signed up have all agreed that it was a smart move for any small business.

What they liked
  • Add the ingredient once and just type a few letters into a recipe and predictive text does the rest
  • Ability to update and track increasing costs over time, keeping track of vendors (this was a huge help when it came time for my staff to reorder and I was out of town), customer support is EXCELLENT
  • I recommend this software to anyone who expresses a need for a method to track costs and inventory
Room for improvement
  • For my purposes, it was sometimes tough to figure out how to input the correct data to get the correct per unit pricing (I work with chocolate molds or varying yields)
  • This made things a bit complicated at first, but is most likely an issue singular to my industry

Collins T.

Verified User

Marketing and Advertising · 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years
Dec 22, 2025

Recipe Cost Calculator for Helpful Services

Recipe Cost Calculator has maximum assistance in managing costs.

What they liked
  • Recipe Cost Calculator ensure all costs are handled swiftly
Room for improvement
  • Recipe Cost Calculator makes every process attainable
Switched From

The inclusion of inventory management is well presented in the app.

Laura C.

Verified User

Food Production · 2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months
Dec 22, 2025

Great product

Great customer service, great tool to use and organizing our recipes and getting pricing dialed.

What they liked
  • Compared to other websites, I found this one easy to navigate
Room for improvement
  • I just needed something that had a little more functionality to it

Peter H.

Verified User

Food Production · 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years
Dec 22, 2025

Outstanding value in recipe management software

Very happy for the price. Highly recommend.

What they liked

- Simple ingredient and recipe building - Fast and easy shopping list and production plan creation - Ability to create USDA nutrition fact panels - Outstanding customer service

Room for improvement
  • - Displaying large number of ingredients or recipes slows down interface
Why they chose it

"USDA ingredient linkage and fact panel generation"

Amber K.

Verified User

Food Production · Self-Employed

Used daily for less than 2 years
Dec 22, 2025

Recipe Cost Calculator Review

Recipe Cost Calculator is the perfect tool for anyone in the hospitality industry. It is a superior piece of software that does its job above and beyond.

What they liked
  • Recipe Cost Calculator helped me get organised and feel more confident and professional during the stressful time of opening a cafe
  • It is very easy to use and troubleshoot
  • [sensitive content hidden] is always evolving and improving the functionality plus he is personally there to help out if you need it
  • I highly recommend this calculator, it is a very valuable business tool
Room for improvement
  • I did not have any negative experience using Recipe Cost Calculator
  • Typing in all your ingredients individually takes time but that is to be expected because the details are so thorough and once it’s done it is set up for good
  • Changing from there is easy and having all the detailed info about each ingredient saves you time down the track when menu planning

Christina R.

Verified User

Medical Devices · 11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years
May 28, 2026

Determined Inventory Managing Program

Verified reviewer

What they liked

The software has all the measures that foster costing, and ensure there is defined order management

Room for improvement
  • The attributes of this program are flawless and useful

Richard K.

Verified User

Consumer Goods · 2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years
May 28, 2026

Great Product

Any time that we had any issue with the program, we were able to receive immediate help and solutions to the problems. I sold the business and one of the biggest selling points for the buyer was that I was able to provide allergens and nutritional data for all of my recipes.

What they liked
  • We found Recipe Cost Calculator extremely easy to set up and use
  • The ability to scale recipes based on different factors (the yield that we wanted to obtain most frequently, and sometimes having to scale based on ingredients that we were able to actually use
  • ) quickly and easily was a life saver
Room for improvement

There were a few ingredients that we used in our recipes that were not "findable" in the nutrition database - this did slow us down somewhat but not to any great extent

Sarah C.

Verified User

Food & Beverages · 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years
May 28, 2026

Recipe Cost Calculator 5 stars

This is a very valuable tool for me to manage my food cost. We are one year into owning our business and I think there is quite a bit more that I can do with this app that I have not explored yet. I look forward to using the other tools to see how they can be helpful as well. Most of all, I have had fantastic customer service from this company. They are kind, available and very helpful!

What they liked
  • Recipe Cost Calculator is a great tool for my small business
  • It took us a little bit of time to figure out how to use the software but once we got used to it we fell in love
  • I really like that when you update any pricing for an ingredient it automatically updates all of your recipes using that ingredient
  • I also like that you can view your recipe in multiple ways
  • The pie chart of ingredient usage is a great visual to associate with what the costing looks like per recipe
  • You can also add ingredients as you are building a recipe with out leaving that page, huge time saver
Room for improvement
  • Sometimes the conversions are tricky to incorporate
  • Some are an easy calculation and others you have to enter in a way that the software likes and remember how it is in when creating new recipes
  • For instance, eggs are in by weight not an each
  • So you have to multiply the weight to get the correct amount of eggs per recipe
  • The ingredient doesn't say that how it is entered so you have to remember or check
Why they chose it

"We were recommend RCC by another business owner."

Rina D.

Verified User

Food & Beverages · Self-Employed

Used weekly for more than 2 years
May 28, 2026

Have seen all the changes

Nothing but fabulous!

What they liked
  • I have been using this software for a few years and have seen all the growth and changes it has gone through
  • It has been amazing
  • I asked for a particular feature and the owner has emailed me back to address my thoughts and ideas (I don't know any other company that has that type of customer support)
  • The features just keep on growing
Room for improvement

It does have alot of functions that I do not use any longer since it has grown so much, but I continue to use it because it is so comprehensive and easy to use compared to any other program similar to this

Switched From

Nothing had all the features I was looking for, they were all very clunky to use and never easy.

Jana R.

Verified User

Hospitality · 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years
May 28, 2026

Success After Years of Searching!

All the information in one place! Having a representative right here in Canada and in my own Province! I now have easy access to all my ingredients and when an invoice comes in, I can easily add a new ingredient or update pricing if needed. My recipes are up-to-date; clean, costed, and with added graphs for clearer understanding, including the ever helpful profit margins from maker to distributer.

What they liked
  • It has taken me years of searching to find a costing program that I could feel comfortable using, being straightforward enough for my skill level
  • I am a Pastry Chef first, not a computer person
  • And, while I was inputting information or setting up recipes it was very helpful to be able to ask for help in real time
  • They continue to work hard to see that this software encapsulates all aspects of hospitality
Room for improvement
  • As I became more comfortable with the software, I felt free to make suggestions, for eg
  • having a way to do inventory
  • So even though I did not come across anything to dislike, I could see that my suggestions were always heard

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