Products are your purveyor items and power the ability to place orders and cost out recipes on opsi. Products can be manually added to catalogs, added in bulk via CSV imports, or ingested via invoice processing solutions like Ottimate (formerly Plate IQ). Once products are added into your account, they can be associated to categories, product guides, and ingredients.

Ingredients can be true costed on opsi by mapping an ingredient to a product, thereby pulling the pricing and unit information. Multiple products can be mapped to one ingredient, however a single product can only be mapped to a single ingredient. For example, you order lettuce from two different purveyors, which is two different products, but those two products will be mapped to your one "Lettuce" ingredient that's used within recipes.

Each product can contain the following details:

SKU

Unique product ID

Name

The name of the product

Category

The category the product is associated to (ex. Dairy)

Product Guide

Any product guides that product is associated to

Ingredient

The ingredient the product is associated to

Price

Current price of the product

Packaging Unit

Ex. case

Inner Pack Qty

Ex. 12

Inner Pack Unit

Ex. bottles

Unit Qty

Ex. 16

Unit of Measurement

Ex. fl oz

Set "Inner Packaging" measurements as equal

By turning on this option, the Inner Pack Qty / Inner Pack Unit will be treated as equivalent to the Unit Qty / Unit of Measurement. This is particularly useful for products like produce. For instance:

Without the option:

Inner Pack Qty / Inner Pack Unit: 10 heads

Unit Qty / UoM: 1 lb (each)

This implies each head weighs 1 lb.

With the option enabled:

Inner Pack Qty / Unit: 10 heads

Unit Qty / UoM: 1 lb (in total)

Here, 10 heads together are considered to weigh 1 lb.

Activating this feature changes the interpretation of the measurements from per-item to per-pack basis.

Read next: Adding purveyors