Updating ingredient prices with Olive

Keeping prices current is tedious. Olive can look up today's US retail price for up to 50 ingredients at a time, and shows you where it found each one. Nothing changes until you approve it.

Look up prices

1. Go to Ingredients.
2. Tick the ingredients you want priced. Tip: click missing a price first to list the ones that need it most.
3. Click Update costs with Olive in the bar at the bottom.

Selecting ingredients for Olive to price

Olive searches for each ingredient ("Olive is looking up prices… N of M"):

Olive looking up prices

Review and apply

When Olive has finished, What Olive found lists, for each ingredient:

• the current price, if any
• the price Olive suggests, with the pack size it found
• the source: a link to the store page, and the date it was found

Olive's price suggestions with sources

1. Check each suggestion. Click a source to see the product page.
2. Untick anything you don't want to change. Prices that look unusual compared with your current price aren't ticked for you, and are marked "Check before applying".
3. Click Apply selected prices.

You'll see "Applied N price(s)". To go back, click Undo these changes. Undo restores ingredients that already had a price before.

Good to know

• Prices are looked up for the location you're viewing, if you have several.
• If Olive can't find a price it can link to, or can't convert the store's pack size to your unit, that row explains why and can't be applied.
• One run uses one Olive request, however many ingredients you select (up to 50).
• Olive looks up ordinary US retail prices. If you buy wholesale or have contract pricing, enter your own prices instead. See Setting ingredient prices.