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The market, in one honest table
A small food business shopping for labelling software is usually offered three kinds of tool: UK compliance suites that start around £19 a month and climb past £50 for the useful tier, enterprise nutrition platforms priced for hospitals and manufacturers, and order-book apps that don't do UK allergen law at all. ProvenBatch starts at £9 with the complete label engine in every tier — and does several things nobody else advertises at any price.
| Capability | ProvenBatch | FoodCore | CakeBoss | Bakesy | Craftybase |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PPDS / Natasha’s Law labels, allergens emphasised | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Allergen matrix + export | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Recipe costing | ✓ | £55 tier | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Label derived from the actual batch (per-batch supplier selection) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Second-opinion allergen scan + verification & freshness tracking | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Append-only compliance history | ✓ | Audit trail | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Photograph a pack → declaration read for you | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Receipt scanning (photo, PDF, email-in) with price alerts | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Offline capture in the kitchen (installable app) | ✓ | Not advertised | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Orders with prices | ✓ | £55 tier | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cash-basis accounts & monthly P&L | ✓ | Insights only | Partial | ✗ | COGS focus |
| Stock control | Post-launch (Pro) | £55 tier | Partial | Partial | ✓ |
| Food safety / HACCP logs | Post-launch (Pro) | £55 tier | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| UK price under £15/month | ✓ £9 | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Trial | 30 days, no card | 7 days, no card | Trial | Free tier | 14 days |
Competitor pricing and features as published by each vendor, verified July 2026 — check their sites for current detail. US tools price in USD.
Fair's fair
Where we're honestly behind
Stock control and food safety logs are real strengths of the higher-priced tools in the table, and they're on our roadmap for after launch rather than in the product today. If daily HACCP-style logging is the centre of your problem, one of those tiers is the stronger choice right now — and we'd rather tell you that than have you find out after you've moved your data.
What nobody else does at any price: derive the label from the batch that was made — the pack you actually used, not the one the recipe assumes — and check its own allergen detection with an independent second pass. If proving your labels is the centre of your problem, that's us.