Open the spec sheet a pack sells under, fill the gaps that block it, sign it off in one act, print it for the buyer, and renew it when the recipe or the pack's record changes.
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A retail buyer's quality team wants the spec sheet for the tub before they will open the account, and the last one you sent was a Word file somebody retyped from the recipe — with the case weight from before you changed the pack. Bettr writes the sheet instead, out of the recipe and the pack's own product record, so the numbers on it are the numbers in the system. You open it from Recipes, under Product specs. Kitchen+
Each pack the dish sells under gets its own : the same recipe under each, that pack's own facts on top.
Open the recipe and its Product specs
From Recipes, open the recipe and select Product specs from the row of cards under the yield block.
Go to the Products tab
Products lists one panel per pack the recipe sells under. Find the pack you're sending — they're peers, so the one you want is the one the buyer ordered, not the first in the list.
Select Open the spec sheet
Under the pack's facts, the Spec sheet block says where that pack's approval stands — No sheet approved for this pack yet, or who approved it and from which version — and Open the spec sheet writes it out.
Nothing about the sheet is stored. It's written from the recipe version and the product record every time you open it, so a sheet you opened last month and one you open today can differ — and the second one is the true one.
Reading down: the pack's name and item number, the recipe and the version it was written from, and your company. Then, in blocks:
A sheet missing a fact the buyer is owed can be read, but it can't be signed off. Two holes do that, and the sheet names whichever one it has instead of showing an approval button at all.
The first is a composition. When any ingredient the recipe reaches has no ingredient list on its product record, the sheet names those products — Atlantic Salmon Fillets has no ingredient statement on its record.
Open each product it names
From Inventory → Products, open the product and go to the Specifications tab.
Write the composition and save
Fill in the Ingredient list — what that product is made of, the way its own label reads it — and select Save. Editing a product is covered in Edit a product and attach its documents.
Come back to the sheet
Reopen the sheet. The warning is gone, the composition is in the statement in its place by weight, and the approval button is there.
The second hole is storage. A pack nobody has said where to store reads Chicken Teriyaki Bowl has no storage type on its record, and Stored, at the top of Storage and handling, is an em dash. Open that pack from Inventory → Products, tick where it lives on the Allergens & Storage tab, save, and reopen the sheet.
The block is not just the button
Bettr refuses the approval itself, not only the button that asks for it — a sheet with either hole in it can't be signed off by any route. That is deliberate: the statement is what the customer's label is built from, and the storage line is how they are told to keep it, so a gap in either is a gap on the paperwork you signed.
Read the sheet the way the buyer will
Check the statement, the CONTAINS line, the case weights and the shelf life. Everything on the page came from the recipe or the product record, so anything wrong here is wrong there — fix it at the source and reopen.
Select Approve this sheet
One act, by someone whose role can change recipes. The button leaves the page and the footer stamps your name, the day, and the version the sheet was written from.
The approval belongs to that pack, not to the dish: a recipe selling under two packs is two sheets and two signatures.
Print this sheet hands the page to your browser's print dialog, which is where you save it as a PDF. What prints is the sheet alone — no app chrome, no preview bar, no buttons — with each block kept whole across a page break.
Bettr never lets an approved sheet and what feeds it drift apart quietly. Two things put the sheet back in front of you, and both say which one it was:
The warning shows on the sheet and, in the same words, on the Spec sheet block back on the Products tab, so you can see which packs are asking without opening each one. Read the sheet again and select Renew this approval; the footer restamps with today and the version it's now written from.
View-only access
If your role can view recipes but not change them, you can open and print any pack's sheet and read where its approval stands. Approving and renewing need Edit recipes — see the Recipes reference.