Importing recipes with the AI Importer

Where is the AI Importer?

In the side menu, under AI for your business → AI Importer. The screen is called «Bring your data into Miselup» and has two entry points: upload a file or paste text. The AI Importer isn’t just for recipes: it also recognises suppliers (a business card or contact letterhead) and smallwares (lists of utensils and machinery).

What can I upload to the AI Importer?

• Photos of your notebook, a magazine or a cookbook, in JPG, PNG, WebP or HEIC.
• PDFs of a spec sheet, a recipe book or a price list.
• CSV or TXT exported from your spreadsheet.

The maximum size per file is 8 MB. If you’d rather paste the text —a recipe from a blog, one ChatGPT wrote for you, an email from a supplier— use the «Paste your text» block: it takes between 20 and 40,000 characters and it doesn’t matter how messy it is.

How do I import a recipe step by step?

1. Open AI for your business → AI Importer.
2. Drag the file onto the «Choose or drag a file» box, or paste it as text.
3. Press «Analyze with AI» (or «Optimize with AI» if you pasted text).
4. Miselup tells you what it recognised on the «Detected:» line — Recipe, Supplier or Smallwares — and opens the «Review the extracted recipe» screen.
5. Fix whatever needs fixing: Name, Category, Servings and, under «Import as», whether it’s a Final preparation or an Intermediate preparation.
6. Go over the ingredient lines: each one carries its quantity, its unit and its destination (an ingredient you already have, or a new one to be created).
7. Press «Import recipe». When it finishes, the «Open the recipe» button takes you to the sheet, already created with its costing calculated.

What if the recipe has sub-preparations?

When the AI Importer detects components —a sauce, a stock, a base dough— it lets you choose between two modes:

• «With nested intermediates» — each component is created as its own intermediate preparation. This is the recommended mode, because that sauce is then available for your other recipes.
• «Everything in a single recipe» — the components’ ingredients are merged into a single list.

Before importing, Miselup summarises exactly what it’s going to create: one main preparation plus the number of nested intermediates.

What should I check after importing?

1. The prices of the new ingredients. The AI Importer creates the ingredients you didn’t have, but with no purchase price they come in at 0.00 and the dish’s cost ends up lower than it really is.
2. The allergens. When the AI detects allergens it lists them for you and asks you to assign them to the new ingredients from their card.
3. The quantities and units on each line, especially if they came from a handwritten photo.
4. The preparation. If the source didn’t include the steps, you can write them yourself or use «Generate preparation with AI».

Known limits

• Excel and Word can’t be uploaded directly. Export them to CSV or PDF, or take a photo of them; direct support is on the way.
• Standalone ingredient lists can’t be imported yet. If the document is just a list of raw materials, Miselup detects it and tells you. If it really was a recipe, try a photo where the quantities and steps are visible.
• There’s a monthly quota on plans without AI included: 20 AI imports a month, which renew on the 1st. On the plans with AI (Pro and above) the importer has no limit. Check what each plan includes at miselup.pro/en/pricing.
• If the image can’t be read, nothing gets invented. Miselup tells you it couldn’t identify any kitchen data and asks for a sharper image or a closer crop.