Procurement · Intelligent Ordering

Every vendor order in one place.

Most groups order across email chains, phone calls, and vendor portals — so price discrepancies get paid and rogue spend adds up. Craftable puts every order on one platform, catches off-contract pricing automatically, and ties every line back to your cost data.

30% improvement on rogue spend across Craftable customers
10,000+ operators purchasing through Craftable
1 catalog and audit trail across every location
🔒app.craftable.com/ordering/purchase-order
Craftable purchase order flagging a line item that exceeds agreed vendor pricing — Romaine Hearts invoiced at $32.40 against an $18.00 agreed price, a $14.40 discrepancy caught before approval
0bartaco locations across 14 states
0PopStroke locations across 7 states
0 hrssaved annually — The Adelphi Hotel
3-wayPO · receipt · invoice auto-match
The cost of fragmented ordering

Three places margin quietly leaks out.

The operational mess is obvious. The financial cost is harder to see — until you follow where it goes.

No single record of what was ordered.

Email
“Send the usual produce order.”
No quantities
Phone
Called Baldor 7:02a — “six cases, maybe eight?”
Nothing logged
Vendor portal
Baldor portal — pricing lives behind a separate login
Siloed per vendor
TodayNo audit trail from PO to payment
With CraftableOne platform, every order tracked

The overcharge slips through and gets paid.

Spring Mix — agreed$28.50
Invoiced$34.10
Overpaid, unnoticed+$5.60
TodayOff-contract pricing gets paid
With CraftableAuto-flagged before approval

You find it on the variance report.

on-contract
Wk 1
Wk 2
Wk 3
rogue spendMonth-end
TodayFound after the money's gone
With CraftableFlagged in real time — 30% improvement
How it works

From order guide to P&L — without the manual steps.

Your team orders. Craftable handles the vendor communication, the matching, and the data flow.

Step 1

Order from one catalog

Build POs from one catalog of approved vendors, products, and agreed prices — the same at every location.

Step 2

Craftable sends the PO

Orders route to the right vendor automatically — tracked, timestamped, and tied to your cost data.

Step 3

Receive & auto-match

Three-way matching across PO, receiving, and invoice — no reconciling documents by hand.

Step 4

Discrepancies flagged

Off-contract pricing and rogue spend get caught before approval — not at month-end.

Step 5

Data flows downstream

Purchases feed inventory, food cost, and AP automatically — one clean loop to your P&L.

In the product

Every pending order, right on the home screen.

Operators open Craftable to what needs attention — orders to approve, invoices due, counts to run. Approve a vendor order in a click, and the numbers move straight into food cost and your P&L.

Craftable operator home screen showing four vendor orders awaiting approval alongside net sales, food cost, and labor metrics
Audit trail

A complete record, every location, any device.

Every count, price, and approval is logged and exportable — from the back office or the floor. Managers close out on their phone; finance sees the same numbers in real time.

Craftable audit for a location showing items, bins, counts, and unit costs with running totals and an export action
The same Craftable audit on mobile, showing item counts by bin and a Close audit button
What Intelligent Ordering does

One place to order, control, and connect every purchase.

Automatic price-discrepancy detection

Every invoiced line is checked against agreed pricing. When a vendor charges more, Craftable flags it before it's paid.

Order guides & par-based ordering

Standardized order guides make reordering fast and consistent — so teams order the right products at the right pars.

Rogue spend controls

Orders placed outside approved vendors or prices get flagged before they happen — not after the statement lands.

Purchase-order to P&L

Purchase data flows into inventory, food cost, and your accounting system automatically — no reconciling systems by hand.

Full audit trail, every location

Who approved it, what price was agreed, whether it was received — every transaction has a complete record, order to payment.

Integrations

Connects to the systems you already run.

POS, vendors, and accounting — ordering data flows both ways, so no one re-keys a thing.

Logos of systems Craftable connects with, including NCR Aloha, Toast, Square, US Foods, Sysco, QuickBooks, Sage, M3, and Shopify
The comparison

Intelligent Ordering vs. how you're doing it now

 Email / Phone / SpreadsheetsCraftable
Order managementMultiple channels, no central recordOne platform, full audit trail
Price discrepancy detectionCaught manually (or not at all)Auto-flagged against agreed pricing
PO-to-invoice matchingSpreadsheet reconciliationThree-way auto-match
Rogue spend visibilityDiscovered at month-endFlagged in real time
Vendor catalog & pricingScattered per locationOne approved catalog across locations
Flow to inventory & P&LManual export / re-entryAutomatic, end-to-end
Proof

Operators run tighter procurement on Craftable.

Craftable is a hub for everything and provides transparency and clarity for our operators.
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Sam Mendal
Director of Purchasing, bartaco · 32 locations across 14 states
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locations across 7 states
Popstroke manages procurement and operations as it scales — maintaining financial control across new locations without adding back-office headcount.
Trusted by operators like
Woods Coffee Houston TX Hot Chicken bartaco Tao Group Hospitality PopStroke
Questions

What operators ask about ordering

Does Craftable handle multi-vendor purchasing?

Yes. Craftable supports purchasing from multiple vendors through a single platform. You maintain one centralized vendor catalog with agreed pricing and order guides, and your team places all orders through Craftable regardless of which vendor they're ordering from.

What is rogue spend, and how does Craftable control it?

Rogue spend is purchasing that happens outside contracted vendor agreements — ordering from non-preferred vendors, paying prices that weren't negotiated, or bypassing approval. Craftable controls it by managing all purchasing through one approved vendor catalog and flagging any order or invoice that deviates from agreed terms.

Can Craftable replace our current purchasing system?

Craftable replaces most point purchasing systems, as well as the spreadsheet-and-email workflows many operators use. It integrates with existing POS, accounting, and ERP systems, so you don't have to replace your entire tech stack — just the pieces that aren't working.

How does ordering connect to inventory and food cost?

Purchase data flows into inventory, inventory flows into food cost calculations, and AP data flows into your accounting system — automatically. Your finance team gets accurate, timely data without reconciling systems by hand.

See what ordering looks like when it runs through one platform.

In 30 minutes, we'll show you where your current process is creating cost — and what it looks like when purchasing, receiving, and AP connect.

★★★★★  "78 hours saved annually. Every invoice complete, accurate, and automatically coded." — The Adelphi Hotel