New: Sync Foodsteps With Your Recipe or Menu Management System
Foodsteps now integrates with your recipe or menu management system, allowing you to instantly calculate the environmental impact of your meals—without manually transferring data between platforms or leaving your current platform.
Foodsteps now integrates with your recipe or menu management system, allowing you to instantly calculate the environmental impact of your meals—without manually transferring data between platforms or leaving your current platform.
We offer two types of integration, both enabled by our open API:
- One-way integration – Recipe or menu data flows automatically from your existing system to Foodsteps.
- Two-way integration – Environmental impact data also flows back to your menu or recipe management tool.
Read on to learn more about these options and the benefits of integrating with Foodsteps.
Why Connect Your Recipe or Menu Management System with Foodsteps?
Connecting your software allows your chefs and menu planners to understand the environmental impact of the meals they’re creating in real-time. For your business, that means:
- Time and cost savings - Through increased team efficiency and reduced manual work.
- Faster, more informed decision-making: Improve the effectiveness of sustainable food operations at the site or venue level.
- Reduced risk of errors - Automatic data transfer ensures your impact calculations are based on the most accurate and up-to-date recipe or menu data.
How Each Integration Works and Its Benefits
➡️ One-way integration
How it works
Recipe data flows automatically from your recipe/menu management tool to Foodsteps. Impact data is calculated in Foodsteps, and users can instantly see the environmental impact of their meals without manually exporting or importing data.
Benefits
- Save time: No need for manual data exports or imports—everything flows automatically between platforms.
- Maintain consistency: Data about departments, sites, and menus is transferred as it is in your existing software, ensuring alignment across platforms.
- Act faster: Impact data updates in real time as you adjust recipes or menus, helping you finalise them faster.
🔄 Two-way integration
How it works
Recipe data flows from your recipe/menu management tool to Foodsteps, and impact data flows back into your system, giving you access to environmental data directly within your platform.
Benefits
All the benefits of one-way, plus:
- Streamline workflows: View environmental impact data directly within your recipe or menu management tool, without switching platforms.
- Increase adoption: With everything in one system, teams can more easily act on their sustainability targets during recipe/menu development.
- Act faster: Instant updates to impact data in your existing system allows teams to make quicker decisions and adjustments, all in one place.
Connecting with Foodsteps’ sustainability data
Foodsteps combines an industry-leading database, GHG Protocol-aligned methodologies, and strategic partnerships to provide food businesses with the most accurate and comprehensive environmental data available.
With an integration in place, your business gains instant access to granular, location-specific impact data—covering nearly every country in the world.
- 45,000+ location-specific emissions factors
- 4,300+ unique ingredients
- 147 countries covered
Talk to a Foodsteps expert about integrating today
If you’re looking to connect your recipe management system to Foodsteps—or want to learn more about the Foodsteps API—our team is here to help. Speak to an expert today.
