Ingredient Price History
Track how your ingredient prices change over time and spot trends before they hurt.
Every time an ingredient price changes in Recipe Cost Calculator — whether from an invoice upload, a manual update, or a supplier switch — it's recorded. You can see the full price history for any ingredient: when it changed, by how much, and from which supplier.
The percentage change view makes it easy to spot which ingredients have moved the most. If your butter is up 20% over six months, that's worth knowing — especially if it's in half your recipes.
Price history is available per ingredient and per supplier, so you can compare how different suppliers' pricing has changed over the same period. This is really helpful during supplier negotiations or when deciding whether to switch suppliers for a particular item.
Why this matters
See the trends, not just the numbers.
Individual price changes are easy to miss. But when you can see the trend over months — this ingredient is steadily climbing, this supplier's prices have been stable — you make better purchasing decisions. It's the kind of visibility that spreadsheets can technically provide but nobody ever has time to build.