Everything, honestly described

Labels that prove themselves

You never type a label. Every label is built from the recipe and the declarations of the exact packs used: ingredients in descending weight order, the 14 UK allergens in bold capitals, bought compound ingredients declared with their sub-ingredients in brackets, your business name and address. Beyond the legally required emphasis, allergens repeat on their own red call-out line.

• Per-batch supplier selection. At batch time, choose which supplier's pack actually went in; the label rebuilds from that pack's declaration, and you're warned if an alternate's allergens differ from your usual.
• Blocked, never guessed. A batch is stopped if any ingredient the label derives from has no declaration. It would rather stop than print an uncertain label.
• Immutable batch snapshots. Recording a batch stores exactly what was printed, when, and which pack went into every ingredient. Reprint reprints the snapshot, not a regeneration.
• Best before or use by. Set per product, switchable per batch, so perishables carry the right wording.
• Your label stock. Popular templates seeded on signup, custom sizes, start part-way down a used sheet. Text auto-sizes, and if content genuinely won't fit you're told honestly rather than it being silently clipped.
• Your label sheets, already in there. Search the label stock catalogue by size, sheet code or maker; laser and inkjet twins of the same layout are treated as one, so an L7162 and a J8162 print identically.
• Label archive. Full history on every tier, never metered. This is the record you hand an inspector.

Zero-typing setup and capture

The real barrier to any labelling tool is entering seventy declarations before you can print anything. We removed it.

• Photograph a pack. Snap the ingredients panel; the declaration is read and shown beside what's stored; accepting saves it and records the pack check in one action. The photo is kept as evidence. An unreadable panel is refused, not guessed.
• Starting out? Sweep a shelf. Photograph a whole shelf of packs in one go, several at once rather than one at a time, and check the readings afterwards. You don't need the supplier product set up first: each one proposes an ingredient and a supplier product for you to confirm or edit, so a new catalogue fills from what's already on your shelf instead of an evening of typing.
• Snap a receipt, sort it later. One tap, phone away. It's read in the background and waits in a review list; nothing enters your accounts until you confirm it.
• Reading that fills the form. Shop, date and reference recognised; every line matched to items you already buy across ingredients, packaging, equipment and fees. Crop and re-read a bad photo; photograph a long till roll in overlapping pages and it's read as one receipt.
• Email receipts in. Your own private forwarding address; a supplier's PDF invoice is read straight from your inbox. Sender allowlist; replace the address instantly if it ever leaks.
• Price-change alerts. A matched line that differs from your stored pack cost is highlighted; one press and every recipe using that ingredient re-costs itself.
• Recipes from a photo, a PDF or a link. Paste the text, give us the web address, photograph the book page, or pick a photo you already took. A supplier's PDF works the same way. Ingredients are separated from method, fractions and cups converted, sections kept, lines matched for you to check.
• Speak the note instead of typing it. On a corrective action or a late entry, press Speak and say what happened. The words come back as text for you to check and edit before anything is saved. The recording isn't kept. Typing is always there instead.
• Installed and offline. Add it to your home screen; captures queue on the phone with an honest "saved on this phone only" note and sync when signal returns. Nothing is lost to a failed upload.

Your data, treated like it's yours

• Held in the UK. Database, files and accounts live in the UK.
• Completely separate. No other business can see your recipes, suppliers or prices. Your recipes are your intellectual property, and we treat them that way.
• Export everything. Self-serve from Settings, any time: one zip with a CSV per table, or a single spreadsheet. You can leave with your data.
• Never held hostage. When a trial or subscription ends, your account becomes a read-only archive. Everything stays visible and exportable.
• Help built in. The full user guide inside the app, searchable, and available offline.

How the reading works, and what it can't do

• Your photos leave your device to be read. That's how the reading is any good, and we'd rather say it than pretend otherwise. Where it happens, and who does it, is set out in full in our privacy notice.
• Voice recordings are not kept. The words come back as text for you to check; the recording is thrown away.
• Nothing is ever ticked for you. An allergen found in a declaration arrives unverified until you confirm it against the pack in your hand.
• ProvenBot can read your records. He can't change them. There is no button for it and no way round it: he sees exactly what your own sign-in can see, and nothing more.
• Every one of these is optional. Type the note, key in the receipt, write the declaration by hand. Nothing in ProvenBatch needs any of it to work.
• If the reader can't be reached, your device has a slower one, and it tells you plainly that it's slower and less accurate, rather than quietly giving you a worse answer.