Craftable vs MarketMan

Craftable is a hospitality back-office platform for restaurants, hotels, bars, resorts, and food-and-entertainment businesses. It brings purchasing, inventory, accounts payable, and financial reporting into one system. Ordering supports multi-vendor carts, purchase orders, EDI, Punchout, and enhanced catalogs. AP Automation captures invoices, uses AI to extract line items, performs three-way matching, and suggests GL codes. Inventory tools track stock, barcode scans, and transfers among departments and locations. Recipe costing uses live vendor prices to calculate plate costs and compare theoretical with actual COGS. Dashboards combine food cost, labor, and purchasing data to show trends and variances. Craftable lists 60+ POS integrations, 1,000+ vendor connections, and 35+ ERP and accounting integrations, including QuickBooks, Toast, Square, and Acumatica. Full and inventory apps are available for iOS and Android. Its Crafti assistant can examine operational data and draft recipes or purchase orders for approval. Pricing is available on request.

MarketMan is a cloud-based restaurant management platform for inventory control, purchasing, expense tracking and recipe costing. It manages inventory and purchase orders, supports mobile ordering and suggests order quantities. Recipe costing breaks ingredient costs down by menu item in real time. Smart Ordering uses predictive analytics to forecast demand. Starter includes 50 AI-powered invoice scans per month, while Growth includes unlimited invoice scanning. Listed integrations include Toast, Square, Lightspeed, QuickBooks, Xero, Sysco and Performance Foodservice. The platform is available through a browser and iOS and Android apps. It serves quick-service and full-service restaurants, cafes, bars, ghost kitchens, and single-location operators and multi-unit chains. Multi-unit tools include centralized reporting, inter-location inventory transfers, commissary kitchen management, standardized recipe libraries and comparative dashboards. Starter costs $249 a month, Growth costs $299 a month and Enterprise costs $449 a month. Enterprise includes read-only API access limited to 5,000 calls per month. Vendor EDI integrations are listed for the US, Canada and UK, with plan limits of one for Starter, two for Growth and unlimited for Enterprise.