Fourth Purchase-to-Pay and Inventory alternatives

Pros

• Published plans: Starter at $249 a month already includes inventory counts, transfers, recipe costing, actual vs. theoretical reporting and purchase orders.
• Connects with Toast, Square, Clover, Shift4 POS, Lightspeed and TouchBistro, among others, with no MarketMan fee to integrate.
• Phone support seven days a week, plus chat, email and WhatsApp, and onboarding included in every plan.

Cons

• The subscription agreement sets a 12-month commitment even on monthly billing, renews for the same term and needs 60 days' notice to stop the renewal.
• If you leave early, the rest of the 12 months is still due.
• Starter caps invoice scanning at 50 a month; unlimited scanning starts on the higher Growth plan.

Pros

• One published price, $350 a month per location, with inventory, recipe costing, theoretical usage reports, unlimited invoice processing and bill pay in the same plan.
• Month to month on monthly billing, with no cancellation fee, and 12 months of access to your account after you cancel.
• Connects with a long list of POS systems, including Toast, Square, Clover, Shift4 POS, Lightspeed and SpotOn, with no MarginEdge fee to connect them.

Cons

• With Toast you also pay Toast $50 a month per location for its Restaurant Management Suite, plus a Toast API fee whose amount is not published.
• Onboarding packages are sold separately and their price is not published.
• Support is by email or ticket on weekdays, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Eastern; there is no phone line you can call.

Pros

• Built around bars: bottle weights for partial counts and recipe costing for drinks and dishes.
• Unlimited users on every published tier.
• Free POS connection with Lightspeed, Square, Toast and Upserve, and a file upload for any other POS.

Cons

• Annual term that renews automatically unless you cancel at least 60 days ahead, by booking a call; fees are not refunded.
• Variance against POS sales and AI invoice processing are on the Pro tier, which is quoted.
• The pricing page shows only annual prices, food and beverage are priced separately, and the length of the free trial is not published.

Pros

• Published per-location prices for one to ten outlets, including the one-time setup fee.
• Partial bottles are weighed with a supported Bluetooth scale in the mobile app.
• Lists more than 50 POS integrations, including Toast, Square, Clover, Shift4 POS and Lightspeed, with no extra charge to connect.

Cons

• No month-to-month option: the shortest term is a quarter, and fees already billed are not refunded.
• A one-time $750 setup fee for one venue, and the single-venue plan caps AI invoice scanning at 75 a month.
• Food and beverage are separate products; tracking both means the bundle, which costs more than either one.

Pros

• Published prices for every tier, billed monthly or yearly, with a 30-day free trial.
• Operations includes inventory counts, variance against ideal usage, purchase orders emailed to suppliers and menu engineering.
• Imports sales from any POS that exports a sales mix file, with a list that includes Toast, Square and Shift4 POS (as Harbor Touch).

Cons

• No published terms of service: term, renewal and the cost of leaving early are not published.
• One user included; each extra user is $10 a month, and integrations such as the accounting export are $10 a month each.
• No invoice scanning of its own and no direct POS connection for restaurants: invoices and sales come in by hand or by file.

Pros

• Published price for one restaurant: $295 a month with implementation, one POS connector and unlimited scanned invoices included.
• Inventory counts, recipe costing and actual vs. theoretical food cost, with purchase orders, transfers and commissary tools.
• Long list of POS connectors, including Toast, Square, Clover, Shift4 POS, Lightspeed and PAR Brink.

Cons

• The single-restaurant plan carries a two-year contract, and the software agreement (renewal, notice and early exit) is not public.
• Restaurant POS connectors are 1-way, and only one is included in the published plan.
• Live help desk is weekdays only, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Eastern; nights and weekends are emergency support.

Pros

• Accounting, AP automation, inventory, recipe costing and scheduling in one system, with actual vs. theoretical food cost reports.
• The Operations page publishes a per-location price for the Professional plan ($489 a month billed annually).
• Integrates with a long list of POS systems, including Toast, Square, Clover, Shift4 POS, Lightspeed and SpotOn.

Cons

• The pricing page only offers a custom quote, so the published $489 may not be what you are quoted; billing is annual or quarterly, not monthly.
• You cannot cancel or downgrade during the term: the whole subscription term is owed, and it renews automatically unless you email notice 60 days before the end.
• A paid implementation and a one-time POS setup fee per location are required, with no published amounts.

Pros

• Ordering, inventory counts, recipe costing, AP automation and supplier payments in one platform.
• Integrates with many POS systems, including Toast, Square, Clover, Lightspeed, SpotOn and TouchBistro, and with QuickBooks, Sage Intacct, NetSuite and R365.
• Published per-payment fees for paying suppliers: $0.49 by ACH, $0.99 by eCheck and $1.49 by paper check.

Cons

• No published price: you only get one through a demo and a quote.
• One-year term that renews each year; if you leave early, all fees become due at once.
• Electronic invoice reading and the POS integration depend on add-ons or higher accounts.

Pros

• Recipes, inventory, purchasing and actual vs. theoretical food cost in one platform, with transfers and central kitchen tools for groups.
• Connects to Toast, Square, Clover and Lightspeed, among more than 40 POS and online ordering systems.
• You can download your data during a grace period after you cancel, and Apicbase keeps it for 60 days.

Cons

• Every plan is by quote, and the Growth plan says it starts from 5 outlets.
• Contracts renew automatically, you must give 90 days' notice to stop the renewal, and fees can't be cancelled before the term ends.
• Monthly billing costs 15% more, fees are payable in euros and prices can rise every year with a Belgian wage index.

Pros

• Inventory counts, recipe management, suggested ordering and actual vs. theoretical food cost built for multi-unit chains, with above-store reports.
• Its agreement is public: one-year renewals, 30 days' notice and renewal increases capped at CPI-U plus 1%.
• You can export your data within 60 days after the agreement ends.

Cons

• No published price, and the initial term is set in each order.
• Few of the common POS systems are listed: Toast, Square (through APIs) and PAR, but not Clover, Shift4 POS, Lightspeed or SpotOn.
• Implementation is sold separately, and only up to 5 authorized contacts can open support cases.