The label proves what went in the batch.
ProvenBatch builds every Natasha's Law label from your real ingredients and the exact supplier's packs you used — costed, recorded, and ready to show an inspector.
Why this exists
One label is all it takes.
Since October 2021, food packed on site before it's ordered must carry a full ingredients list with the 14 regulated allergens emphasised — that's Natasha's Law, and it applies to a market stall exactly as it applies to a supermarket.
Most small food businesses manage this with a spreadsheet, a late night, and hope. The label gets typed by hand, from memory, from the recipe as it was written — not the batch as it was made. Swap to a different brand of chocolate on the day and the label quietly stops being true.
ProvenBatch removes the typing, and with it the gap. Labels are derived, never written by hand — so a label can never disagree with what went in the mix.
How it works
Three steps to a label you can stand behind
1 · Photograph your packs
Snap the ingredients panel and the declaration is read for you — you check it against the pack and confirm. Set up a whole cupboard in an evening; type almost nothing.
2 · Build your recipes
Paste or photograph a recipe and the lines are matched to your ingredients — quantities converted, sections kept. Costing runs live from your real pack prices.
3 · Batch and print
Pick which supplier's pack actually went in today. The label — and its allergens — rebuilds from that pack, prints on your labels, and the batch is recorded forever.
What makes it different
Derived from the batch, not the recipe
Every other tool derives the label from the recipe. ProvenBatch derives it from the batch that was made: at batch time you choose which supplier's pack actually went in, and the label rebuilds from that pack's declaration. If the alternate brand declares different allergens, you're warned before you continue.
Recording a batch stores an immutable snapshot of exactly what was printed and which pack went into every ingredient. That's your audit trail — built as you work, not reconstructed when someone asks.
Butter — Yeo Valley Salted 250g
Flour — Allinson's Plain 1.5kg
Software that checks its own work
Allergens are detected automatically and never trusted: everything arrives unverified until you confirm it against the pack. An independent second-opinion scan re-reads every declaration with a different rule set and flags disagreements. Freshness tracking chases declarations nobody has re-checked.
Every confirmation, verification and change is recorded in an append-only history — who, when, and what the wording said at that moment. Nobody can edit it. Including you. That's the point.
Dark Chocolate Chips
no evidence — MILK is recorded, but nothing in the declaration supports it. Check the pack before removing.
The typing is removed
The hard part of any labelling tool is entering seventy ingredient declarations before you can print anything. ProvenBatch attacks that directly: photograph a pack and the declaration is read for you; photograph a receipt — or forward the PDF from your inbox — and the expense arrives matched and pre-filled, with price rises flagged against your costings.
Works installed on your phone, and offline: snap receipts at the market with no signal and they sync when you're back.
£2.10 → £2.45 per pack —
Butter Unsalted 250g
Press once and every recipe using it re-costs itself.
Who it's for
If you pack food where you sell it, this law is yours
PPDS is critical for many small food businesses — the FSA publishes guidance for bakers, butchers, caterers, farm shops, delis, market stalls and preserve makers alike, all in scope on the same terms.
Home bakers & cake sheds
Photograph packs instead of typing; costing that stops underpricing.
Caterers & meal prep
Plan a production day as a session; print every label set in one go.
Farm shops & food halls
Swap a supplier and the label follows; shopping lists by supplier.
Delis, cafés & sandwich makers
Fast reprints from stored snapshots; uncertain batches blocked.
Butchers
Compound ingredients declared properly; use-by handled per product.
Preserves, chocolate & sauces
Offline capture at the market; per-batch records at stall scale.
Why trust us
Restraint is the feature
Your data is held in the UK
Database, files and accounts live in the UK. Where photos are read by AI, we say so plainly — and it's disclosed in full in our privacy notice.
Never held hostage
Stop paying and your account becomes a read-only archive — everything visible and exportable. We will never lock a food business out of its own allergen records.
No per-label fees. Ever.
Label everything — that's the point. No setup fees, no per-user fees below your tier, cancel monthly.
Pricing
The price is on the page
£9 · £19 · £39 a month. The complete label engine — allergens, second opinion, batch provenance — is in every tier: we will not sell a safer label at a higher price.
Questions
Asked and answered
Does ProvenBatch make my labels legally compliant?
No software can promise that, and you should be wary of any that does. Legal responsibility for a food label always rests with the food business operator — you. What ProvenBatch does is make it much harder to get wrong: labels are derived from your real data, uncertain batches are blocked rather than guessed, and everything is recorded so you can prove what you did.
What happens when my trial or subscription ends?
Your account drops to a read-only archive: everything stays visible and exportable. Printing stops; your allergen history doesn't vanish.
Is there a per-label charge?
No. Label everything — that's the point.
Who are Stella Apps?
The UK company behind ProvenBatch. Your card statement will say PROVENBATCH. More about us.
Print a label you can stand behind
We're inviting a small group of UK food businesses into the paid beta this autumn, ahead of launch in January.