DoliRecette – Recipe Management and Ingredient-Based Stock Tracking for the Food Service Industry

DoliRecette – Complete Recipe and Stock Management for the Food Service Industry

DoliRecette is a professional Dolibarr module that enables restaurants, bars, hotels, and caterers to manage their recipe cards with ingredient breakdowns, track their stock precisely, and optimize their costs.

Why DoliRecette?

Running a food service establishment requires rigorous management of recipes, ingredient costs, and stock. Losses, waste, and lack of visibility into real margins are recurring problems. DoliRecette delivers a complete solution, directly integrated into your Dolibarr ERP.

Key Features

1. Recipe Cards

• Create recipe cards with full ingredient breakdown
• Direct link to Dolibarr products
• Automatic ingredient cost calculation per recipe
• Selling price and margin calculation
• Number of portions per recipe
• Preparation and cooking time
• Duplicable recipe templates
• Public and private notes

2. Ingredient-Level Stock

• Real-time stock overview
• Theoretical stock vs. physical stock
• Automatic discrepancy detection
• Complete stock movement history (audit trail)
• Synchronization with Dolibarr's native Stock module

3. Sub-Units (Opened Bottles, Opened Packages)

• Management of opened/partially used units (open bottles, open packages)
• Tracking of remaining content in each opened unit
• Parent-child hierarchy for units
• Automatic or manual opening with confirmation
• Opening and closing history

4. Achievable Dishes

• Automatic calculation of achievable dish count based on available stock
• Summary view with color-coded indicators (available / limited / out of stock)
• Decision-support tool for daily production planning

5. Manual Production

• Production entry with automatic stock decrement
• Recipe and portion count selection
• Full movement traceability

6. Preparations / Transformations

• Tracking of ingredient transformations (e.g. whole tomatoes → diced tomatoes)
• Automatic yield and loss calculation
• Cost transfer to the transformed product
• Irreversible validation with stock movement creation

7. Inventory

• Creation of inventory sessions
• Theoretical vs. physical stock comparison
• Monetary calculation of discrepancies
• Irreversible validation and closure
• Automatic stock rebalancing

8. Stock Alerts

• Configurable minimum stock alerts per product
• Expiry date alerts (use-by date / DLC)
• Severity levels (warning, critical, danger)
• Internal notifications

9. Reports

• Margin report per dish (cost vs. selling price)
• Loss report (inventory discrepancies)
• Purchase forecasts based on average consumption
• PDF export of reports

10. Dashboard

• Real-time KPIs: recipes, available dishes, alerts, open bottles
• Summary view of dish availability
• Recent activity feed
• Quick access to common actions

11. DoliTable Integration (Optional)

• If the DoliTable module (restaurant POS) is installed, automatic stock decrement on POS orders
• Also works in standalone mode (without DoliTable)

Unit of Measure Management

• Pre-configured units: kg, g, L, cL, mL, unit, piece
• Customizable units with conversion factors
• Full administration from the interface

Security and Permissions

• 18 granular rights per profile (chef, manager, bartender, accountant)
• Access control on every feature
• Audit trail on all stock movements

Multi-Entity Support

• Compatible with Dolibarr multi-company
• Each entity manages its own recipes and stock

Technical Architecture

• Modular service architecture
• 13 dedicated SQL tables
• Automatic schema migration (risk-free updates)
• AJAX handlers for a responsive interface
• Experimental offline mode (Service Worker)
• Dolibarr triggers for automatic integration

Installation:

1. Extract the ZIP file into htdocs/custom/
2. Enable the module under Configuration > Modules
3. Dolibarr's native Stock module must be enabled (required dependency)
4. Configure user permissions according to profiles

Dependencies:

• Dolibarr native Stock module (required)
• DoliTable module (optional – for automatic POS stock decrement)