A recipe is the list of ingredients consumed when you sell one of a specific product variant. When a customer orders a Medium Matcha Milktea, Amari uses the recipe to deduct 1 medium cup, 15g of matcha powder, 100ml of milk, etc. from your inventory automatically. Set them up once, and your stock numbers stay accurate without manual tracking.
Before you start
- The product (e.g. Matcha Milktea) is created with at least one variant (Regular, Medium, etc.)
- Every ingredient and supply you want to deduct is already added to your branch — see "Adding a new ingredient or supply"
- You know how much of each ingredient goes into one drink (measure once with a cup or scale)
Recipes are per variant, not per product
This is the most important thing to understand. A "Matcha Milktea" product with 4 sizes has 4 separate recipes — one for Regular, one for Medium, one for Large, one for Buy 1 Take 1. Each recipe specifies different ingredient quantities because each size uses different amounts.
This sounds tedious but it's actually faster than the alternative. You can build the Regular recipe first, then copy it to the other sizes and just bump the quantities.
How to create a recipe
Open the product
Go to Store → Products. Find the product you want to add a recipe to. Tap Edit.
Find the variant section
Scroll down to the Variants section. You'll see one card per size. Each card has its name, price, and an Edit Recipe button.
Tap Edit Recipe on the first variant
A modal opens showing the current recipe (empty if this is the first time) plus a search box for picking ingredients.
Search and add ingredients
Type the name of an ingredient in the search box. Tap any result to add it to the recipe with quantity 1 of its base unit. For example, searching "cup" might show:
- Regular Cup 12oz
- Medium Cup 16oz
- Large Cup 22oz
- Hot Cup w/ Lid
Pick the right one for this size. For a Medium Milktea, add Medium Cup 16oz.
Set the quantity for each ingredient
Each ingredient row in the recipe has a quantity field. The unit shown next to it (g, ml, pcs) is the base unit you set when you created the ingredient. Enter the amount used per sale:
- Medium Cup 16oz — 1 pcs
- Matcha Powder — 15 g
- Full Cream Milk 1L — 100 ml
- Fructose 25kg — 20 g
- Ice — 150 g
- Boba Straw (Duo Brew) — 1 pcs
- Sealing Film (Duo Brew) — 1 pcs
How to figure out the right amounts
Make one drink the way you actually serve it, weighing or measuring each ingredient as you go. Write the numbers down. Use those exact amounts in the recipe. Don't eyeball it — even a 5g overestimate per drink adds up to kilos of waste per month.
Save the recipe
Tap Save Recipe. The modal closes and you're back on the product edit page. The variant now shows "X ingredients" underneath its price.
Repeat for other sizes (with copy if useful)
Now do the same for Large, Jumbo, Buy 1 Take 1, etc. Some ingredients scale linearly with size (more milk for a bigger drink), some don't (always 1 cup, always 1 sealing film). You can use the "Copy from variant" option to start with another size's recipe and just adjust the quantities that change.
Save the product
Once all variants have recipes, tap Save at the bottom of the product edit page. Recipes are now active — the next sale will deduct from stock automatically.
What happens when you sell with a recipe
Every time a sale completes, Amari:
- Looks up the recipe for the variant sold
- Deducts each ingredient's quantity from your branch's stock
- Creates a deduction log entry (so you can audit later)
- Updates the "current stock" numbers on the Inventory page
Multiple-quantity sales scale automatically. Selling 3 Medium Milkteas deducts 3 cups, 45g of powder, 300ml of milk, etc.
Common mistakes
- Forgot to add the cup — easy to forget the packaging because it's not part of the "recipe" mentally. But cups are inventory too. Always include them.
- Wrong unit — entering 100 instead of 0.1 for milliliters because you confused liters with milliliters. Double check the unit label next to the field.
- Missing add-ons in the recipe — if a customer adds "extra boba", that's tracked separately as a flavor/add-on with its own recipe. Don't bake it into the base recipe.
- Recipe set on the wrong size — always double-check you're editing the right variant before adding ingredients.
Editing or removing a recipe
Recipes can be edited any time. Open the product → Edit → tap Edit Recipe on the variant → adjust quantities or remove ingredients → Save. Changes apply to all future sales only — historical sales keep the recipe they had at the time.
Related articles
- Adding your first products
- Adding a new ingredient or supply
- Setting up modifiers, flavors, add-ons