Welcome to Iraca
Iraca is inventory management built for food businesses. It tracks your stock, turns recipes into finished products, keeps orders moving from sale to shipment, and generates the compliant labels your customers see on the shelf — all from one place instead of a patchwork of spreadsheets.
This guide walks through the core app — the parts every Iraca workspace has, regardless of plan. Add-ons (like Accounting, HACCP, or FDA Acidified Foods Compliance) and the Iraca Marketplace are documented separately.
The core ideas
A handful of concepts show up across almost every part of the app:
- Products are what you sell — finished goods, with a SKU, a price, and stock you track by warehouse.
- Supplies are what you buy to make products — raw ingredients and packaging, tracked separately from your sellable catalog. See Managing Your Supplies Catalog.
- Recipes connect the two: a recipe lists which supplies (and quantities) go into a batch of a product. Running a recipe through production deducts supply stock and adds finished product stock automatically.
- Warehouses are physical (or virtual) locations that hold stock. Every product's stock is tracked per warehouse, not just as one company-wide number.
- Orders record a sale, whether you typed it in by hand or it arrived from a connected sales channel.
- Lots give you traceability — a lot number ties a batch of finished product back to the specific production run (and the supplies) that made it, so you can trace and, if needed, recall precisely.
Finding your way around
The main navigation on the left groups the app by these concepts: Inventory (products, warehouses, stock), Production (recipes, production runs, lot tracking), Orders (sales orders, contacts, fulfillment), Purchasing (supplies, purchase orders, receiving), Shipping (carriers, labels, packing slips), Labels (nutrition facts, barcodes, the label builder), and Reports.
Settings, in the top-right menu, is where you manage your organization profile, team, and account-level configuration — see Organization Profile and Team Management.
A first-week checklist
If you just finished the setup wizard, here's a reasonable order to fill things in:
- Add a warehouse (or confirm the default one Iraca created for you) — see Warehouses, Stock & Adjustments.
- Add your supplies — the raw materials and packaging you buy. You can add them one at a time or import a CSV.
- Create your products — see Creating a Product.
- Build a recipe for any product you manufacture — see Creating a Recipe.
- Invite your team — see Team Management.
- Connect a sales channel or start creating orders by hand — see Creating and Managing Orders.
You don't have to do all of this before you start using Iraca day to day — most businesses fill in supplies and recipes gradually as they onboard each product.