Importing recipes you already have
If your recipes already exist somewhere, on your blog, in a Word document, on a printed card, on another website, you do not have to retype them. Recipe Kit has four ways in. This page helps you pick.
Which one do I want?
| You have | Use |
|---|---|
| Recipes already published on your Shopify blog or pages | Import from your store |
| A recipe on a website, in a photo, in a PDF, or as text you can paste | I already have it written |
| Everything in a spreadsheet, or hundreds of recipes | CSV import |
| A large or messy library and no time | Our manual import service |
Import from your store
Tools > Import from your store. Available on every plan, including free.
Scans the blog posts and pages already on your Shopify store, finds the recipe content in them, and turns each one into a real Recipe Kit recipe linked back to its original post.
This is the right starting point for most stores, because it needs nothing from you but a click. Your original posts and pages are left untouched, so nothing can break if you change your mind.
| Plan | Posts you can import |
|---|---|
| Free | 10 total, shared with the AI import below |
| Essentials | 50 total |
| Advanced | 500 total |
| Enterprise | 500 total |
I already have it written
Create Recipe > I already have it written. Available on every plan, including free.
Point it at one recipe and it fills in the fields for you. It takes:
- A URL. Any recipe page on the web
- A photo. A snap of a cookbook page or a handwritten card
- A PDF
- Pasted text. Straight out of a document or an email
Read what comes back before saving. It is generally very good on structure, ingredients and steps, and it will occasionally misread a quantity in a bad photo.
| Plan | Imports |
|---|---|
| Free | 10 total, shared with the store import above |
| Essentials | 5 per month |
| Advanced | Unlimited |
| Enterprise | Unlimited |
CSV import
Tools > CSV import. Paid plans only.
Creates or updates many recipes at once from a spreadsheet. Download the template, fill it in, upload it. It can also create the blog posts as it goes.
This is the one to use for a bulk migration, or for making the same change across a lot of recipes: export, edit the column in a spreadsheet, re-import with Update existing recipes ticked.
Full column reference and formatting rules: Bulk Recipe Import / Export.
Exporting
Tools > CSV export is available on every plan, including free. Your recipes are yours, and you can take them out whenever you like. See Exporting recipes from your store.
After importing
Whichever route you took, a few things are worth doing:
Check a handful. Spot-check the ingredients and times on a few imported recipes rather than all of them. Import errors tend to be systematic, so if three are right the rest usually are.
Add images. Imports bring images across where the source has them. Where they do not, the recipe has no image, and no image means no rich result in Google. See the image size guide.
Link your products. This is the step that turns imported content into revenue. See Linking Products to Recipes.
Check the status. Imported recipes follow your default recipe status. If that is Hidden, they will not show until you publish them.
Generating is not importing
Generate with AI is a different feature. It invents a new recipe from a description, rather than reading one you already have, and it is on Advanced and Enterprise only. See AI-Powered Recipe Generation.
What's next
- Bulk Recipe Import / Export - The CSV format in full
- Manual Recipe Importing Service - When you want us to do it
- Creating Recipes - What to do with a recipe once it is in