The Tools page

Tools in the Recipe Kit navigation holds the jobs that work across your whole recipe library at once: getting recipes in, getting them out, checking keywords, and editing ingredients and product links on every recipe.

Most tools work on every plan. CSV import needs a paid plan, and QR codes and Email signups need the Growth plan. Each tool below says which plans include it.

Open a tool

1. Open Recipe Kit and go to Tools.
2. Pick a tool from the list on the left. The tools are in two groups, Import & export and Recipe tools.

Import & export

Import from your store

Scans the blog posts and pages already on your Shopify store for recipes and turns them into linked Recipe Kit recipes. Your original posts stay untouched. Available on every plan, with a limit per plan. See Importing recipes you already have.

CSV import

Creates or updates many recipes at once from a spreadsheet, and can create the linked blog posts as it goes. Needs a paid plan, and development stores can use it too. See Bulk recipe import and export.

CSV export

Downloads your recipes as a spreadsheet, filtered by status if you want. The export re-imports, so it's useful for bulk edits and backups as well as for moving your recipes. Free on every plan. See Exporting recipes from your store.

Email signups

Shows how many readers signed up through the email capture gate on each recipe, and exports them as a CSV with each subscriber's email and current marketing status from Shopify. Export one recipe's signups or all of them. Part of the Growth plan. See Email capture gate.

Recipe tools

QR codes

Makes a QR code that opens your recipe blog, to print on packaging, shelf cards or anything else physical. For a code that opens one recipe, use the QR code button at the top of that recipe's page.

A QR code on packaging, such as the back of a jar, brings someone who bought your product in a shop to your website.

QR codes are part of the Growth plan. Codes you've already printed keep working on any plan. See QR codes for your recipes.

Keywords

Lists every keyword used across your recipes, with the number of recipes each one appears on. Sort by Most used or A-Z, type in Filter keywords to find one, and select a keyword to see which recipes use it.

Two things this is good for:

• Finding near-duplicates. gluten-free on eight recipes and Gluten Free on three means your blog filter only finds eight of them. Keywords become blog post tags, and Shopify treats those as different tags.
• Seeing gaps. A keyword on only one recipe is usually a typo or a gap worth filling.

Free on every plan.

Ingredients & products

Rename an ingredient or change its product link in every recipe at once. It's built for the day you stop selling something: rename "John's Red Wine" to "any red wine" in every recipe and remove the link in one step, instead of opening each recipe.

The tool has two tabs, Ingredients and Linked products.

Rename or relink an ingredient in every recipe

The Ingredients tab lists every ingredient name across your recipes, how many recipes use it, and the product it links to. Two lines only count as the same ingredient when the words match. The amount at the start is ignored, so "2 cups red wine" and "1 cup red wine" both show up as red wine, while dry red wine and red wine vinegar get rows of their own. Prep notes are part of the name, so "butter, melted" is separate from "butter".

1. Open Recipe Kit and go to Tools, then Ingredients & products.
2. Search for the ingredient and tick it. Tick several to give them all the same name.
3. Click Edit selected.

4. Type the new name under Ingredient name, or leave it to keep the name. Amounts like "2 cups" stay exactly as you wrote them.
5. Under Product link, choose Keep current product links, Link a product or Remove product links, then click Preview changes.

6. Check the preview. It lists every recipe with each line before and after. Untick any recipe you want to leave as it is, then click Apply.

Once it's applied, an Undo button appears above the list. It puts the recipes back the way they were, except any you've edited since. It's only there until you leave the page or make another change, so check the result straight away.

The preview marks a few kinds of line that are left alone, so edit those in the recipe instead:

• Lines where only part of the name is bold, italic or otherwise formatted.
• Lines where the name is a link to another page, since the link would keep pointing to the old one.
• Lines in a few very old recipes, saved in an older format. Open and save the recipe once, then try again.

Check your linked products

The Linked products tab lists every Shopify product linked to an ingredient or a piece of equipment in your recipes, with a badge for its status:

• Available means shoppers can buy it.
• Hidden means it's archived, a draft, or not published to your Online Store, so shoppers can't add it to their cart.
• Missing means it no longer exists in Shopify.

Set the filter to Issues only to see just the hidden and missing products. Select a product to see which recipes use it, then click Replace product in all recipes or Remove link from all recipes. These change the link and leave the ingredient's wording as it is. To reword the line as well, use the Ingredients tab.

Free on every plan.

What's next

• Importing recipes you already have covers choosing an import route.
• QR codes for your recipes covers blog and recipe QR codes in full.
• Email capture gate covers collecting reader emails on your recipes.
• Linking products to recipes covers making ingredients shoppable.