Available on Personal, Professional and Enterprise plans, and during your trial.
Give each ingredient a price, and Wholesum costs every recipe, every shopping list and every meal plan for you. You enter prices the way you buy things, like "$4.49 for a bunch of 18 bananas". Wholesum does the maths to scale them to any quantity.
Set or change a price
- Go to Ingredients.
- In the Cost column, click Set price for an unpriced ingredient, or click the current price (for example $4.49 / 18 whole).
- Fill in the Cost estimate window:
- Purchase quantity: how much one purchase gets you, for example 18.
- Purchase unit: the unit of that purchase, for example whole.
- Purchase price: what you pay for it, for example $4.49.
- Check the line underneath, for example "Works out at $0.25 per whole".
- Click Save cost.
The Cost estimate window on the Ingredients page
You can also set a price while you're editing a recipe: click the calculator icon in the ingredient's Cost column. A tick means it already has a price. The price is saved on the ingredient, so every recipe and shopping list that uses it is costed from it.
Good to know
- Units convert automatically. If you buy flour by the pound but recipes use cups, enter the pound price. Wholesum converts between units of the same kind (weight to weight, volume to volume).
- If you buy something by weight but recipes measure it by volume, set a Purchase unit conversion under Manage → Ingredient Info.
- Counted items have a fixed unit. Ingredients measured in whole units (each, can(s), package(s)…) are priced per that unit.
- Prices up to $9,999.99. Enter numbers with up to four digits before the decimal point and two after.
- Prices are per location (Enterprise). If you track several kitchen locations, each location can have its own price. Choose the location at the top of the page before editing.
- Currency. Prices show in your account currency. You can change it under Account.
Cost per recipe and per serving
When you edit a saved recipe, the bottom of the ingredient table shows Cost per recipe and Cost per serving. The figures update as you change quantities or servings.
Cost per recipe and cost per serving
If you see "Not all ingredients have assigned costs", some ingredients don't have a price yet, so the totals are lower than the real cost.
Meal plans show a cost for each line of the shopping list and a Total cost, worked out from the same prices.
Finding ingredients without a price
Click missing a price at the top of the Ingredients page to list only the ingredients that still need one.
Let Olive find prices for you
Tick the ingredients you want priced and click Update costs with Olive. Olive looks up current US retail prices and shows its sources. Nothing changes until you approve it. See Updating ingredient prices with Olive.
