We keep verifying each vendor's data, so some cells read "Unconfirmed" or "Not published" until we check them against the vendor's own pages.
"Inventory software" covers four different jobs: counting what's on your shelves, costing your recipes, capturing and paying supplier invoices, and ordering from suppliers. A tool that reads invoices doesn't count your walk-in, and a recipe app doesn't pay your suppliers. The table shows which of the four each tool does, what it costs for one location, which POS systems send it your sales (you need them to compare what you should have used with what you actually used), how long the contract runs and what leaving costs.
The ranking only compares tools that both count inventory and cost recipes. Invoice and accounts payable tools, and supplier ordering apps, are listed with the same template but not scored against them. If a vendor doesn't publish something, you'll see "Not published" or "Quote only", never a zero.
If you don't know where to start, the cost calculator estimates what each tool costs for your restaurant, and the methodology explains how we score them.
