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Supplier Price Lists

Upload a supplier price list as a PDF or a photo and Puree reads the lines, matches them to your ingredients and updates your costs.

Upload a supplier’s price list as a PDF or a photo and Puree reads the lines, matches them to your ingredients, and updates the costs — so your food costs stay current without re-typing.

Why Scan Price Lists?

Keeping ingredient costs up to date is the chore everyone avoids — so Puree does the typing for you. Instead of copying numbers off a supplier sheet, you upload the sheet and review the result.

Uploading a List

Go to Logistics → Scan document and upload your supplier’s price list. It can be a PDF or even a photo of a printed sheet. Puree reads each line and extracts the product, pack size and price. Extraction runs in the background; the page updates as it finishes.

The Scan document button at the top right of the Ingredients page

The scan upload page, which accepts a supplier invoice, receipt or price list as a PDF, JPG or PNG

Reviewing Before Anything Changes

Nothing is applied to your library until you say so. Puree shows the extracted lines matched against your existing ingredients. You can:

  • Confirm or change which ingredient each line maps to.
  • Adjust the pack size or unit where the supplier’s format differs from yours.
  • Set the supplier for the whole list so it’s recorded against the ingredients.

When you apply, the matched costs update. Small changes where the unit already matches can apply automatically; anything ambiguous waits for your confirmation. If an extraction doesn’t come out cleanly, you can retry it.

The Payoff

Your ingredient library reflects what you’re actually paying this month — and because recipes derive their food cost from those ingredients, every affected dish re-costs automatically. See the Ingredients Library and Recipes & Food Cost topics for the other half of the picture, or our article Recipes, Ingredients & Food Cost: Know Exactly What Every Dish Costs You for the full overview.