What is a FoodCore bolt-on?

A single feature from the Growth or Core plan added to your current plan for a fixed monthly or annual amount, billed on your existing FoodCore invoice. Prices run from £3 to £12 a month. Essentials and Growth customers can add any feature their plan does not already include.

How do I add a bolt-on?

Open Support in FoodCore, choose the Bolt-on topic and pick the feature. We switch it on and reply in the chat, usually the same day. There is no self-service checkout, deliberately, so we can tell you if a feature needs another one or if your plan already includes it.

What do I pay when a bolt-on is added mid-period?

Only the days left in your current billing period, charged straight away. From your next renewal the full amount is on your normal invoice with your plan. If your plan renews on the 10th and you add a £10 bolt-on on the 1st, you pay £3 that day, then £35 a month instead of £25.

Can I remove a bolt-on?

Yes, ask in Support. It comes off at the end of the period you have already paid for and you keep using it until then. Part-periods are not refunded, so there is no advantage to removing it early.

When is upgrading the plan better than bolting on?

Usually at three bolt-ons. Essentials plus the cost calculator, stock and production comes to £42 a month, while Growth is £40 and includes all three plus orders, wholesale price lists and version history.

Are bolt-ons available on a free trial?

No. A seven-day trial already includes every feature, so there is nothing to add. Bolt-ons are for paid accounts.

Bolt-ons: Add One Feature, Not a Whole Plan

Every few weeks someone tells us they would love one feature from the plan above, and only that one. Moving up a whole plan for it never felt right. So now you can add a single feature to the plan you already have, from £3 a month, on the same invoice.

Most of our customers are on Essentials or Growth, and most of them are happy there. But every few weeks someone tells us the same thing: they would love one feature from the plan above, and only that one. A second login for the person who helps on Saturdays. The food safety checks before an inspection. A cost calculator for pricing the Christmas range. Moving up a whole plan for one feature never felt right, to them or to us.

So you can now add a single feature to the plan you already have. We call them bolt-ons.

How it works

In FoodCore, open Support, choose the Bolt-on topic and pick the feature you want. There is a short pre-written message; add anything you like to it.
We switch it on for you and reply in the chat, usually the same day.
It appears on your normal FoodCore invoice. There is nothing separate to set up or pay.

There is no self-service checkout for this on purpose. A quick conversation means we can tell you if a feature needs another one to be useful, and make sure you are not paying for something your plan already includes.

What you can add

Prices below are the whole price — nothing is added at checkout. Annual is ten months, the same as your plan.

Features from the Growth plan

Bolt-on	What it gives you	Monthly	Annual
Cost calculator	Recipe and batch costing, margins, suggested selling prices	£5	£50
Stock control	Live levels, low-stock alerts, packaging and supplies, photograph a delivery note to book it in	£6	£60
Production runs	Plan bakes on a calendar, packlists, prep sheets	£6	£60
Orders & collections	Customer orders, the collections diary, deposits and receipts recorded by hand	£7	£70
Wholesale price lists	Trade pricing per customer that pre-fills their orders. Needs Orders	£4	£40
Version history	Every change to a recipe or ingredient kept, one-click restore, plus ingredient price history	£3	£30

Features from the Core plan

Bolt-on	What it gives you	Monthly	Annual
Food safety	Daily due diligence checks, HACCP plans, temperature logs, corrective actions and a dated inspection pack	£12	£120
Team logins & multi-site	More users with per-feature permissions, and more than one kitchen	£10	£100
Online shop sync	Shopify and WooCommerce orders arrive by themselves and are marked fulfilled back. Needs Orders	£10	£100
Menus & allergen matrix	Menus with a printable allergen grid, and a prep sheet from any menu	£8	£80
Business Insights	Costs, waste, supplier price movement, profit per recipe	£8	£80
Card payment links	Send a link for a deposit or balance; paid links become receipts. Needs Orders	£6	£60
Staff rota	Weekly shift planning with calendar sync	£6	£60
Meal planning	Calendar planner with nutrition and cost totals	£5	£50

Growth customers can add any Core feature. Essentials customers can add any of them. Features your plan already includes are not offered, so nobody pays twice.

How the money works

When we add a bolt-on part-way through your billing period, you pay only for the days left in it, charged straight away to your usual payment method. From your next renewal the bolt-on joins your plan on the same invoice — one payment, as now.

An example. Your plan renews on the 10th of each month and you ask for Team logins on the 1st. Nine days of the month are left, so you pay £3 on the 1st. On the 10th your invoice is £35 — your £25 plan plus the £10 bolt-on — and it stays £35 a month after that.

Annual customers work the same way against the annual price, prorated for the days left in your year. The full billing terms are in clause 4.10 of our terms of service.

Changing your mind

Tell us in Support and we will remove the bolt-on at the end of the period you have paid for. You keep using it until then. We do not refund part-periods, so there is no advantage to removing it early.

If you later move up to a plan that includes the feature, the bolt-on comes off automatically at the same moment. If you move down a plan, your bolt-ons stay.

When is a plan the better deal?

Two bolt-ons is usually fine. At three, the plan above is often cheaper and gives you everything else in it too.

Your situation	Bolt-on route	Plan route	Better
Essentials + cost calculator	£30/month	Growth £40	Bolt-on
Essentials + cost calculator + stock	£36/month	Growth £40	Bolt-on
Essentials + cost calculator + stock + production	£42/month	Growth £40	Plan — and you also get orders, price lists and version history
Growth + food safety	£52/month	Core £65	Bolt-on
Growth + food safety + team logins + insights	£70/month	Core £65	Plan

We will say so when you ask. We would rather move you to a plan that costs us less to support than take £2 a month more for a worse arrangement.

Not on a trial

Trials already include every feature for seven days, so there is nothing to add. Bolt-ons are for paid accounts. If you are still deciding, start the trial and see the whole product first.

A note on VAT

FoodCore.io Ltd is not registered for VAT, so no VAT is added to any price on this page or anywhere else on the site. The number you see is the number that leaves your account. If you are VAT registered yourself, there is no input VAT on a FoodCore invoice to reclaim — the ordinary position when buying from an unregistered supplier.

Frequently asked questions

Do some bolt-ons need others? Yes. Wholesale price lists, online shop sync and card payment links all work through Orders & collections, so they need it. We will tell you when you ask.

Where do I see my bolt-ons? Settings → Billing, under “Added to your plan”.

Does a bolt-on include AI checks? AI checks stay with your plan — 20, 50 or 100 a month. Top-ups are available if you need more. Stock control’s delivery-note scanning uses your existing allowance.

What if you cannot switch it on? If the feature cannot be enabled after a charge has been taken, the charge is credited back in full, automatically.