Print allergen labels for an order

Where the allergen info comes from

A label's Contains line is built from the allergens already saved on:

• the product itself (Products → your product → Allergens), and
• any recipes linked to that product (Recipes → your recipe → Allergens).

Bake Boost combines both and removes duplicates, so if a product and its sponge recipe both list Eggs, the label shows Eggs once. The Suitable for line comes from the product/recipe Dietary settings (e.g. Vegan, Halal), and the Storage line from a recipe's Storage information.

1. Open the order

Go to Orders in the sidebar and open the order you want labels for. On the order page, find the Documents panel — next to the Job Sheet button you'll see an Allergen Labels button.

2. Choose a format

Click Allergen Labels and pick how you want to print:

• A4 sticker sheet — lays the labels out as a grid on an A4 page. Print on label paper (Avery-style) or plain paper and cut. Best if you don't have a label printer.
• Thermal label — one small label per page, sized for a thermal label printer.

Either way, Bake Boost generates a PDF and downloads it to your computer. Open it and print as usual.

3. What's on each label

Each product's label includes:

• Your business name (and logo, if you've added one in Settings).
• The product name and the order number + date, so a label is easy to match back to its order.
• Contains: the product's allergens, in red. Or "No declared allergens" if none are set.
• Suitable for: dietary flags (e.g. Vegan), when set.
• Storage: the storage note from the recipe, when set.
• Your cross-contamination statement, when you've set one (see below).

The fourteen allergens

The allergen tick-list on a product, recipe or ingredient covers all fourteen allergens you have to declare by law:

Gluten (wheat, rye, barley, oats) · Crustaceans · Eggs · Fish · Peanuts · Soya · Milk · Tree nuts · Celery · Mustard · Sesame · Sulphites · Lupin · Molluscs

Two of the boxes were also named too narrowly and have been renamed. Wheat is now Gluten, because the box covers rye, barley and oats too; Shellfish is now Crustaceans, with Molluscs split out as its own box. Anything you'd already ticked stays ticked — only the wording changed.

Set your cross-contamination statement

A Contains line only covers what you put in on purpose. If your kitchen handles nuts (or anything else) near the bake, say so.

Go to Settings → Business → Allergen labels and fill in Cross-contamination statement, for example:

Made in a kitchen that also handles nuts

It prints at the foot of every allergen label, including labels for products with no declared allergens. Leave it empty and nothing is printed. Keep it to one short sentence — it has to fit on a sticker.

Good to know

• One label per product line. An order with three different products gives you three labels. The quantity on a line doesn't multiply the labels — one label per product.
• Allergen names are standard; dietary names are yours. Allergens print under their legal names so a customer reads the same word everywhere. Dietary flags still show exactly as you've set them up under Settings → Manage Lists.
• A very crowded label takes more room. A sticker is 33mm tall and that is a hard limit. Six allergens and your statement still fit 24 to a sheet, and so do three allergens plus either a storage note or a dietary flag. Add both to a long allergen list and that label grows, so the sheet holds about 21. Nothing is ever cut off or printed on top of anything else — the label gets taller instead.
• Cancelled or unsaved orders can't print labels — save the order (and keep it active) first.
• Match your label stock. The A4 sheet uses a common sticker layout; if your label paper is a different size you may need to adjust your printer's scaling, or use the thermal option.

Last updated October 9, 2026