Cancel your catering software and you lose the recipes.

Not the menu. The recipes, with quantities, and the plate costs built on them. Most exports leave them behind, and once the subscription lapses there is no going back for them.

We wrote down the 11 things to pull out before you give notice, in the order that matters, with the three that catch people out flagged. It works whoever you switch to.

• Recipe ingredient quantities almost never export cleanly
• Plate costs usually leave with the subscription
• Free-text notes hold the knowledge nobody wrote down twice