Top Free Restaurant Inventory Management Software - Page 2

Cucinovo

Cucinovo gives restaurant teams a structured way to document recipes, calculate portion costs, and plan kitchen purchasing. It brings ingredient prices, recipe quantities, sub-recipes, and cost per portion into one workspace. Teams can plan portions, review menu food costs, and organize shopping lists and supplier purchase orders. Role-based access supports collaboration across the kitchen. Restaurant plans include unlimited team members and start at EUR 29 per month. A 14-day Pro trial is available without a credit card. Features vary by plan. Pro includes one location, with up to five additional locations available as paid add-ons. Enterprise arrangements are available for groups. Separate household plans are also available.

DineLabs

DineLabs is back-office software for restaurants and restaurant groups. It reads vendor invoices, suggests orders with AI sized to the next delivery, runs counts on a phone by storage area, and keeps recipe and food cost current all month. It works beside the systems a restaurant already runs. Sales and labor come in from the POS (Toast, Square, Clover). Approved bills and daily sales go to QuickBooks Online or Xero, and groups on Restaurant365 keep R365 as their ledger while DineLabs runs ordering and counts. DineLabs does not take payments, pay vendors, run payroll or replace the accounting system. Pricing is $379 a location a month with every module and every user included, no implementation fee, on a one-year term billed monthly after a 30-day trial that starts after the demo. Made by Dine Labs, Inc. in Pasadena, California, founded in 2025.

ERPAG

ERPAG is an ERP cloud service solution designed to assist small and mid-sized companies in managing their business processes efficiently. This comprehensive platform integrates various functions such as sales, purchasing, manufacturing, advanced inventory management, and order fulfillment, all in real-time. By providing a centralized system, ERPAG enables businesses to streamline operations, enhance productivity, and improve decision-making. Targeted primarily at small to mid-sized enterprises, ERPAG caters to businesses seeking to optimize their workflows without the complexity often associated with larger ERP systems. The platform is particularly beneficial for companies that require robust inventory management, multi-level bill of materials (BOM) management, and effective order tracking. With its user-friendly interface and cloud-based architecture, ERPAG allows businesses to access critical information from anywhere, facilitating remote work and collaboration. Key features of ERPAG include multi-level BOM management, which allows users to create complex product structures easily. The shop floor management tool helps oversee production processes, ensuring that operations run smoothly. Inventory tracking capabilities, including barcode, serial, and lot tracking, provide businesses with the tools needed to maintain accurate stock levels and reduce discrepancies. Additionally, the platform supports multiple units of measure, currencies, and languages, making it suitable for businesses operating in diverse markets. ERPAG also offers integrated invoicing and purchasing modules that simplify financial transactions and enhance accuracy. The platform's user-level management ensures that access to sensitive information is controlled, promoting security and compliance. Furthermore, the low-code scripting feature allows users to customize tables and fields according to their specific needs, while the smart API designer facilitates integration with other software applications. These capabilities empower businesses to tailor the ERP system to their unique requirements, enhancing overall functionality and user experience. Overall, ERPAG stands out in the ERP category by providing a comprehensive, flexible, and user-friendly solution that addresses the specific needs of small and mid-sized companies. By combining essential business processes into a single platform, ERPAG not only simplifies management but also supports growth and scalability, making it a valuable asset for organizations looking to improve their operational efficiency.

Average Rating: 4.8/5.0

Total Reviews: 11

FoodTechGuru

FoodTechGuru is an AI-driven food cost calculator and menu engineering tool that transforms unstructured recipe data into professional cost cards. Users can input recipes via text, photos, or audio, and the software leverages a global ingredient database with real market prices and nutritional data for precise cost analysis. It calculates food costs, contribution margins, and dish performance metrics, while recipe scaling adjusts ingredient quantities for various serving sizes. Batch processing handles multiple recipes at once, and Google Sheets integration enables collaborative editing and sharing. The app supports vendor price list uploads for supplier cost comparisons, customizable ingredient lists, and precise calculations accounting for losses and price variations. Offline functionality ensures access without internet, and the app is now available on iOS and Android is coming soon.

Freecost

Freecost is free recipe-costing and food-cost software built by a working chef. Cost every recipe and menu item against live ingredient prices — with real yield math, so the broccoli you trim is costed at what it actually costs per usable pound. When prices change, every affected dish re-costs itself automatically. Snap a photo of any invoice with the Android app and Freecost reads the lines, matches them to your ingredients, and updates your prices overnight. Walk your shelves with your phone for inventory counts in the units you actually buy. Log waste in seconds and see what it's really costing you. Recipes print as clean kitchen cards. Menu items roll up sub-recipes. Allergen tracking is built in. Everything works on web and Android with the same account, and the mobile app works offline. Freecost is genuinely free — no trial clock, no credit card.

Genius Food Purchasing

Genius Food Purchasing is restaurant procurement software that stops operators from overpaying on every invoice. It compares real-time prices across Sysco, US Foods, PFG, Gordon Food Service, and 60+ regional distributors, tracks inventory automatically, and costs every recipe as prices change, no new vendors or workflows required. Most operators save 10%+ on food spend. Try it free for 60 days and see the savings for yourself.

Guardian Restaurant

Guardian is the restaurant operations and financial control platform engineered specifically for independent restaurants, dark kitchens, and fast-paced QSR operations. While traditional POS systems tell you what you sold, none of them prove what walked out the back door. Guardian protects the back of house—where profits quietly bleed through ingredient shrinkage, unrecorded waste, inaccurate recipe costing, and unmonitored shift handoffs. Key Capabilities: 1. Precision Absorption Recipe Costing Real dynamic margin calculations that absorb fixed overhead, kitchen loss factors, and third-party delivery commissions (UberEats, DoorDash, Rappi). Know your exact food cost percentage and recommended pricing on every dish. 2. 3-Minute Blind Inventory Counts (Anti-Theft) Staff counts physical stock of high-value audited ingredients without seeing theoretical system numbers. This eliminates pencil-whipping, concealment, and employee bias at shift close. 3. Certified Shift Custody & Digital Seals Tamper-resistant closing records with cryptographic verification and QR codes. Guardian seals every shift with the proprietary Honesty Index (0-100%), generating verifiable accountability across double shifts and management handoffs. 4. Zero-Friction Operational Tracking Log daily volume sales and operational waste in two taps. Real-time ingredient depletion keeps inventory accurate without complicated ERP workflows. 5. Zero Hardware Investment Built mobile-first to run seamlessly on any smartphone, tablet, or browser. No expensive proprietary terminals or vendor lock-in. Start your 14-day free trial with full feature access at www.guardian.restaurant. No credit card required.

HOSTELELLA

HOSTELELLA is an AI-assisted operations platform for restaurants, bars, cafes and hotels. It brings together supplier orders, purchases, invoices and delivery notes, inventory counts, staff scheduling, clock-in, team chat, sales and expenses. Ella helps extract data from documents, prepare rotas and answer business questions using information permitted by each user's role. The app works on the web, iPhone and Android, and supports multiple venues. Its three monthly plans share the same core features, with different AI usage limits. Prices start at EUR 9.99 + VAT per venue per month, with a first 7-day Ella Pro trial without a card. HOSTELELLA is not a hotel PMS or a replacement for a restaurant POS.

In Plus One

In Plus One is an AI-powered restaurant inventory and food cost management platform designed to help restaurants gain full control over their kitchen operations. It enables restaurant owners and kitchen managers to track inventory in real time, monitor food costs, and identify waste before it impacts profitability. With intelligent insights and automated tracking, InPlusOne helps businesses reduce food waste, optimize purchasing decisions, and improve overall profit margins. Built specifically for restaurants, cloud kitchens, and food businesses, In Plus One simplifies complex inventory processes into a clear, data-driven system that supports better decision-making.

KitchenIQ

KitchenIQ provides AI-powered invoice scanning, supplier price tracking, food cost calculation, and menu margin analysis for independent restaurants. We help restaurant owners automatically track price changes across every supplier and know their real food cost on every dish.

Average Rating: 5.0/5.0

Total Reviews: 1

KoreLab

KoreLab is cloud software for small and medium food producers and artisan workshops (bakeries, pastry shops, pasta makers, dairies, food brands) and for the consultants who follow them. Production and costs: recipes and bills of materials with semi-finished products, the real cost of every recipe (CPF), weight loss and yield, price lists, technical sheets, allergens and nutrition values under EU Reg. 1169/2011, and labels with barcodes. Warehouse and traceability: goods receipt with supplier batches, FEFO stock, batch tracing and mock recall, multi-warehouse (Business plan). Quality: HACCP self-control, voluntary standards (IFS, BRCGS, ISO 22000, FSSC 22000), digital append-only records, operators who sign with a PIN, and consultant delegation. Sales and administration (Business plan): sales CRM with pipeline and opportunities, customer and supplier orders, production planning from orders, delivery notes, e-invoices sent to the Italian SdI through a technical intermediary, supplier invoices, collections and due dates, and agent commissions. KoreLab prepares the documents; tax responsibility stays with the business owner and their accountant. KoreLab does not certify and is not an accredited body. A Free plan (5 products, no card) is available. Prices are VAT excluded. Available in Italian and English.

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Marji

Marji is restaurant food cost software by BlazeApps for independent restaurants, cafes and bakeries. Supplier invoice scanning connects ingredient price changes to reviewed recipe costs. Operators check ingredient matches, quantities, units, yields and actual costs before relying on dish margins. Menu photos supply names and selling prices; AI recipe drafts remain estimates until reviewed. Owners decide whether to change a menu price and update their register themselves. The hosted QR menu stays free. Ongoing invoice scanning and costing require trial or paid access. Single costs USD59 per location per month with a 14-day trial and no card required. No POS connection or sales ingestion is promised.

mise

mise is smart inventory: scan the barcode or snap a photo and the product comes up complete — name, brand, photo, category, size and price. It's the only inventory app that fills everything in by itself. If a product is new to us, the mise AI finds it and classifies it for you. No typing. Know where your money is: compare counts, uncover losses and see what's running short. Add purchases and sales to get the real cost of goods sold (COGS) of your business. Take everything to your system: export counts to Excel, PDF or straight into your management or POS system. Built for any business that keeps stock: bars, restaurants, cafés, bakeries, supermarkets, convenience stores, pharmacies, pet shops, cosmetics stores, liquor stores, hotels and distributors. Key features: - Barcode and photo inventory counts on iPhone, Android and the web - Products filled in automatically: name, brand, photo, category, size and price - Count comparison to spot losses, waste, overstock and missing stock - Minimum stock levels and a ready-made shopping list for what's running low - Purchases and sales entries, period comparisons and real cost of goods sold - Team counts by store and location, with each person's access set by you - Bluetooth scale support for products sold by weight - Export to Excel, PDF or your management/POS system Works worldwide: just download the app, scan a barcode or take a photo, and the AI finds and classifies the product. Available in English, Spanish and Portuguese. www.mise.ws