Recipe Kit vs creating recipes manually.
You could build recipe pages by hand in Shopify. But you would spend time on formatting, and you would still have no recipe schema, no print view and no recipe analytics. Recipe Kit handles this for you.
What Recipe Kit does for you
Formatting by hand is slow. Recipe Kit gives you a recipe editor with a field for each part. Drag ingredients and steps into order, and the numbering takes care of itself. Or import a recipe from a link, photo or pasted text. Spend your time on the recipe, not the formatting.
A hand-built page has no recipe schema, so it is not eligible for recipe rich results. Recipe Kit adds Recipe JSON-LD to every recipe automatically. Your recipes become eligible for rich results with images, cook times and ratings once shoppers leave them.
A hand-built page prints with menus, sidebars and broken layouts. Recipe Kit gives every recipe a clean print view in your brand colour, on every plan. Page breaks fall between ingredients and steps, and you do no extra work.
Linking ingredients to products by hand takes custom code or awkward workarounds. On the Growth plan, Recipe Kit links an ingredient to a product and adds an Add to cart button, with no code.
A hand-built page needs its own tracking setup. On paid plans, Recipe Kit shows views, prints, shares and ratings for each recipe. On the Growth plan, it adds add-to-carts and revenue, so you see which recipes lead to sales.
Hand-built recipes vary with whoever makes them. With Recipe Kit, every recipe uses the same design and your brand colour. A consistent recipe library looks more trustworthy.
Building a recipe by hand in Shopify takes more than writing it. You format ingredient lists, number the steps, place the images and check it all on mobile. That formatting work adds up on every recipe.
Across dozens or hundreds of recipes, the time becomes real. Time spent formatting is time not spent on new recipes, products or marketing.
With Recipe Kit, you enter the content and the card handles the structure, schema and print view. You publish more recipes in the same time.
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Recipe schema takes technical knowledge. JSON-LD must follow a set format and include the right properties. Recipe Kit writes it for you from your recipe fields, leaves out blank fields, and shows an SEO score for each recipe that flags anything missing.
A good print view takes CSS work: remove the navigation, adjust the type, and keep the recipe readable on paper. Recipe Kit gives every recipe a print view in your brand colour. You choose what to include, like the photo, notes and nutrition.
Recipe-level tracking takes custom work too. Recipe Kit's analytics start collecting when you install it. Paid plans show views, prints, shares and ratings for each recipe. The Growth plan adds conversion, add-to-carts and revenue.
Think about the time you spend formatting. If each recipe takes 30 minutes and you publish 50 recipes, that is 25 hours of formatting work.
Recipe Kit also adds features that are hard to build by hand. Recipe schema makes your recipes eligible for rich results. On the Growth plan, shoppable ingredients let shoppers buy from the recipe, and revenue attribution shows which recipes lead to sales.
You can start on the Free plan with 5 recipes, or try any paid plan free for 14 days.
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Common questions about switching from manual recipes
Yes. Import a recipe from its page URL, a photo or pasted text, or fill in Recipe Kit's CSV template to bring in many at once. You can also copy content into the editor field by field. If you want our team to do it, the Recipe Import Service costs $110 per 35 recipes.
Yes. Recipe Kit's editor is built for recipes, so you spend your time on content, not formatting. Structured fields, drag-and-drop ordering and recipe import cut the manual work.
Even if you can code, Recipe Kit saves you time on recipe schema, a print view, mobile layout and, on the Growth plan, product links. Let the app handle the technical work while you focus on the recipes.
No. Choose from four designs: Classic, Compact, Card and Card Vertical. Set your brand colour, and add custom CSS if you need more control. Your recipes look like part of your store.
It depends on your recipes and how you work today. Recipe Kit removes the formatting work, and import tools save you retyping recipes you already have. Try it on a few recipes and compare.
Yes. Recipe Kit gives you structured fields for the recipe itself, plus a description and notes for stories, tips and variations. Your blog post around the recipe card stays yours to write.
Recipe Kit works for any number of recipes. The Free plan holds 5, and every paid plan has unlimited recipes. Even a handful of recipes gains recipe schema and a print view.
Ready to stop creating recipes manually?
Start on the Free plan, or try any paid plan free for 14 days.
