One costing engine under every operational decision
Margin is not a set of tools that happen to share a login. Counts, purchases, invoices, recipes and sales all write into one ledger, and every report is traceable to the transaction that created it.
- Multi-location by default — locations, roles and permissions
- Mobile-first where staff work, deep where analysts work
- Traceable: every number opens to its underlying records
Airport food cost is 3.2 points above group. Beef usage explains most of the gap.
Six operating areas, one accountable record
Inventory, purchasing, kitchen, finance, planning and reporting share the same source records, so each decision can be traced back to what happened.
Inventory
Item master, units of measure, storage areas, locations, vendors and GL mapping — validated by data-health checks.
Purchasing
Counts, receipts, transfers, production, waste and sales. Every movement is signed, timestamped and attributable.
Kitchen
Prep runs, recipes, yields, checklists and labels connect kitchen work to finished inventory and batch cost.
Finance
AP, pay runs, cash planning, GL, reconciliation and period close connect operating detail to the books.
Planning
Budgets and rolling forecasts put location targets beside current actuals and emerging variance.
Reporting
Daily briefs, data-health alerts, scheduled reports and Copilot focus each role on the next action.
What's included, and what's optional
Inventory & counts
Item master, counts, pars, ledger, transfers and waste.
ExplorePurchasing & vendors
Catalogs, order guides, POs, price alerts and comparison.
ExploreInvoices & AP
Capture, three-way match, approvals, aging and GL export.
ExploreFinance & AP
Pay runs, cash planning, journals, bank reconciliation and close.
ExploreBudgets & forecasting
Location plans, rolling forecasts and plan-versus-actual follow-up.
ExploreRecipes & menu
Plate cost, yields, sub-recipes, menu engineering, pricing.
ExploreKitchen production
Prep runs, kiosk, checklists, labels and offline operation.
ExploreCost & variance
COGS, actual vs theoretical, labor, expenses, budgets, prime cost.
ExploreInsights & AI Copilot
Dashboards, report builder, scheduled exports, ask-anything.
ExploreCommissary (module)
Central production, published catalog, costed batches, transfers.
ExploreLogistics (module)
Routed runs, driver app, proof of delivery, vehicle history.
ExploreStandard reports for the period, a builder for everything else
A catalog of operator-grade reports covers close. When leadership asks a question the catalog doesn't answer, build it once and schedule it.
- Period COGS, AvT variance, menu engineering, vendor spend
- Custom report builder with saved views and scheduling
- Exports to CSV and accounting-ready formats
- Role-scoped: managers see their location, leadership sees the group
Numbers people can defend
Counts get reviewed before posting. Invoices get approved before they hit the GL. Everything is versioned and logged, so a disputed number ends in a record, not an argument.
- Review and approval steps on counts and invoices
- Full audit log of who changed what and when
- Data-health and UOM checks that surface bad inputs early
- Import monitoring and exception handling for configured data feeds
Built for groups, not single units
Grouped by brand, region or entity
Role and location scoped, per screen
Walk-ins and basements included
Immutable history for disputes
See your true food cost in a 30-minute walkthrough
We'll use your locations, your vendors and your menu — not a canned demo dataset.
Tailored to your group's structure
Configured with you, not handed over
SmartOPS Margin is part of the SmartOPS OS suite.