Maya by Inputly vs Vaansa

Maya by Inputly connects restaurant sales, recipes, stock and purchasing to forecast demand and manage inventory and food cost. It tracks ingredient quantities and expiry by perishable lot, flags low stock and recommends reorder points. Recipes link menu items to ingredients; sales forecasts can be translated into ingredient needs, including batch yields and unit conversions. Maya drafts supplier purchase orders using forecast demand, current and in-transit stock, supplier lead times and pack sizes. Forecasts are trained on a restaurant's sales history and, according to Inputly, also consider calendars, holidays, paydays, weather and local events. Proposed actions require approval, with role-based access, audit trails, reversible actions and a kill switch among the listed controls. POS connections include Square, Toast, TouchBistro, Clover, SeroPOS and Lightspeed; a REST API and webhooks are also listed. Native apps are listed for Android, iOS, macOS and Windows, alongside web and API access. Maya is paid, with pricing listed from $249/mo, and has no free plan. Inputly says SOC 2 Type II is in progress.

Vaansa is restaurant software with forecasts for sales, covers or orders, inventory, and staffing. It bases demand estimates on a restaurant’s daily sales history and shows a confidence band; when the history is thin, it presents uncertainty rather than a falsely precise forecast. Forecasted covers connect through recipes and bills of materials to produce ingredient reorder quantities. The venue’s peak-hours profile informs suggested staff counts per shift. Vaansa lists Android, web, and Windows platforms, and supports markets including Nepal, India, the UAE, Bangladesh, the USA, and Mexico. The Starter plan includes POS, KDS, reservations, rooms, and five basic analytics reports for up to five staff accounts. Owner includes unlimited staff, inventory and supplier tools, purchase orders, goods received notes, an accounts payable ledger, menu engineering, demand forecasting, and ten analytics reports with Excel export. The full Owner plan is available for a 14-day trial without a credit card. Group is for operators with three or more outlets or franchise operators; it includes API access and integrations, with custom pricing. Vaansa says core POS operations handle brief connectivity drops, while full offline mode remains on the roadmap.