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Size Suggestions on Receipts

Supermarket receipts are handy for the odd top-up buy, but they rarely print a pack size. A Sainsbury's or Tesco receipt might list "JS NUTS" or "HEINZ KETCHUP" with a price and nothing else - no weight, no volume. Without a size, Brikly cannot work out a cost per kilo or litre, so it cannot cost your recipes accurately.

Rather than guess, Brikly searches online for the sizes that product is likely to come in and offers them to you as suggestions. You pick the one you actually bought, and nothing is applied until you do.

Human-first, AI-enhanced

Brikly suggests. You decide. A machine guess never quietly becomes a cost in your recipes - a real size only lands on the line when you choose it or confirm it.

How suggestions appear​

When Brikly finds one or more likely sizes for a receipt line, it shows them on the line item under the heading Possible sizes found online, with one chip per size - for example [200g] [300g].

While you have suggestions to choose from and haven't picked one yet:

  • The Size per Item tile shows Needs size instead of a number.
  • No price-per-kg (or price-per-litre) is shown, because Brikly cannot work one out without a size.
  • Match and Create wait, with the hint Choose a size first. This keeps an unconfirmed guess from flowing through to your ingredient costs.

You have three ways to resolve a line:

  • Pick a chip - tap the size you bought. Brikly applies it, the price-per-kg appears, and Match and Create unlock.
  • Enter size… - type the real size yourself. This is often the right move, because the true size may not be among the suggested ones.
  • None of these - clears the suggestions. The line falls back to the normal missing-size flow, where you can fill the size in as usual.
Type the real size when it isn't listed

The suggestions are Brikly's best online matches, not a complete list. If you bought a 550g bag of peanuts and only 200g and 300g are suggested, use Enter size… and type 550g. Your figure is trusted over any suggestion, and it helps everyone (see below).

Verified sizes, shared across operators​

When you pick a suggestion or type a size yourself, that size becomes a verified size for that product from that supermarket. From then on, future invoices for the same product - yours or any other Brikly operator's, from the same supermarket - can fill that size in automatically instead of asking again.

Verified sizes are shown as their own chips, labelled used before, so you can tell at a glance which sizes are backed by a real operator rather than an online guess. Because a size you typed by hand (like that 550g bag) may never appear in an online search, it shows up here as a pickable chip too.

This is how the system gets quicker and more accurate the more it is used. Your recipes, costs, and business data are never visible to other operators - all they ever see is the pack sizes themselves.

The price check​

Here is the catch with supermarket receipts: one receipt name can cover many sizes. "HEINZ KETCHUP" is a small bottle at one price and a large bottle at another, sitting side by side on the shelf. Filling in the wrong one gives you a plausible-looking but badly wrong cost per kilo.

So before Brikly fills a verified size in for you, it runs a price check. It compares the price you paid against the prices it has seen when that size was verified before. A size only fills in automatically when the price is consistent with it.

If the price does not line up with any size verified before, Brikly does not guess. It shows the suggestions and says:

This price doesn't match sizes verified before - pick one to apply

and asks you to choose, exactly as it does for a brand-new product.

Loyalty discounts don't confuse the check

On supermarket receipts, Nectar or Clubcard savings usually appear as separate lines, with the product's full price still shown on its own line. Brikly uses that full item-line price for the check, so a loyalty discount won't throw the size off.

Knowing when a value was auto-filled​

Whenever a size has been filled in for you - from your own invoice history, from a size another operator verified, or from an online search - the Size per Item tile carries a small marker showing where the value came from. It stays there until you act on it.

  • Confirm the value to lock it in. The marker on the tile clears.
  • Edit it if it's wrong, and enter the correct size. Your figure becomes the verified size going forward.

The marker is there so an automatically filled size never quietly passes for one you checked yourself. A quick glance tells you what still deserves a second look before you match the line and let the cost flow into your recipes.