CakeCost 4+

Great tool

I wish you could take picture of you recipes to add them. If you could add you base hourly rate, margin and overhead that would be awesome, instead of entering the same thing on each recipe. Being able to add a single ingredient would be stellar.
For something like a frosting it would be nice to have total recipe weight, as it may not exactly have servings like on a cake. Or being able to price it out in a different way than servings such as ounces.

Customer service is very nice and do seem to care, I sincerely appreciate it. This app has definitely been helpful. A few tweaks and upgrades it will be perfect!

Ingredient entry confusion

So, instead of being able to add all my ingredients as I buy them. I have to just put in the recipe first then the cost (within the recipe ) and depending on the recipe wording, some entries are gonna be entered twice or some will not calculate in other recipes because of wording. Example: in my ingredients list there is a prue vanilla entry and a vanilla entry (same product and cost) I added another recipe and it did not generate any cost or vanilla. I wish there was an option to enter your ingredients and total cost before adding my recipe and then the. It’s be calculated based on my measurements.

Developer Response ,

Hi Bella

Thanks for the great feedback.

You are correct, currently the app looks at the name of your ingredient in recipes to determine if they are the same and if the price should be shared.

We are planning to add the ability to add nicknames to ingredients so that slightly different names can be recognised as the same ingredient. For now though you will need to use the same ingredient spelling in different recipes.

As a workaround for wanting to enter all your ingredients first, you can create a "Master recipe" with all your ingredients, then set the price for those. Future recipes will then use the ingredient prices you have already entered for the master recipe.

I hope that helps. Please reach out via our support page in the app if you are having other issues. We'll be happy to help you resolve it.

Adding recipes

This is a very helpful app. But there has to be a better way of adding the recipes into the system especially for bakers who have a thick binder full of creative recipes. Maybe photo adding recipes.

Developer Response ,

Hi Mika. We've made it so that you can copy paste recipes from your library if you have it saved somewhere digital. If you have a physical binder of handwritten recipes and would like to upload those, please get in touch via our support page in the app. We'll be happy to assist you to get those digitised.