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title: Sales Analytics - Link PLU to an ingredient
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# 5.2 Link PLU to an Ingredient

A lot of items being sold in your business will contain only 1 ingredient.

Learn how to connect these items easily to a PLU without having to create a recipe first.

 

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### Link a PLU to an ingredient

It's imperative that you have completed previous courses before you attempt to complete this.

Follow the steps in the video to learn how to link an Apicbase ingredient (/stock item) to a Point of Sales - PLU.

If you need detailed information, you can always check out these articles in our Knowledge Base: 

- [How can I link POS items to Apicbase recipes and ingredients?](https://support.apicbase.com/help/linking-pos-data-to-apicbase-data?hsLang=en)

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