# Contributing to BF

### **Contributing Brands and Ingredients** <a href="#contributing0" id="contributing0"></a>

**First off, thank you for your interest in contributing to our catalog.**

Brands are subject to approval and will not show up on the site without being approved first.\
Approval or renaming will happen within 2 business days but normally withing minutes.\
Please use the common brand business name when contributing.\
Do not use profane words or others which violate our [terms of service](https://www.brewersfriend.com/terms).

You can contribute to this list from your [inventory](https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/myinventory) or [shopping list](https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/myshopping).

In order to use user contributed ingredients you need to enable this in [general settings](https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/profile/general_settings).