Product
Your back of house, taken care of.
Stock, ordering, drink margins, the schedule and the fridge log for independent coffee, boba and matcha shops. It sits on top of the POS you already have, and it's set up in an afternoon.
Counting stock is free forever. No card, no contract, no new hardware.
Sold so far
382
+21% on this time yesterday
Sales
$1,766
Needs a decision
4 seconds
for a stock count, on any phone
1 afternoon
to set up, with your own items and labels
$0
to count stock, for as long as you want
Stock
A count takes four seconds.
A printed code on every shelf. Whoever is nearest scans it with their own phone and taps one button. No app, no login, no clipboard.
- Tap Full, Half or Empty for the fridge, type a number for what you cost
- Works on any phone, even with bad signal
- Mistakes are struck through, never quietly deleted
- Counting stays free, for as long as you want it
scanned · walk-in, left shelf
Oat milk
Saved in 4 seconds
Running low, so it's on Thursday's order
Ordering
Thursday's order writes itself.
Everything running low lands on one list, grouped by who you buy it from and priced at what you last paid. You check it and send it.
- Grouped by supplier, with their order link or email
- Photograph an invoice and the prices update themselves
- Deliveries go straight onto the shelf count
- Find cheaper or more local suppliers near you
Creamline Dairy
Heart & Graft
Pack & Co.
Menu and margins
Know what every drink earns.
Say once what a drink is made of. Every cup is costed off the last invoice, so when your dairy puts oat up, the margin moves before you notice.
- Cost per drink from real invoices, not guesses
- Price rises flagged with what they cost you a month
- Oat swaps, extra shots and syrups costed too
- See which variations people actually order
Margin
75%
Oat milk up 7% on Tuesday's invoice
Updated on its own. About $38 a month at your volume.
POS
Every sale takes its milk off the shelf.
Connect Square once. From then on, each sale draws down the ingredients behind it within seconds, modifiers included, so stock is current without anyone counting.
- Square connects in two minutes, read-only
- Oat swaps and extra shots take the right thing off the shelf
- Toast and Clover through a sales export in the meantime
- Your POS stays exactly as it is
Paid at the counter, 8:14am
Taken off the shelf, seconds later
The oat swap and the extra shot included. No Sync button.
Where the money went
Find the milk nobody logged.
Cortado knows what your recipes say you used and what your counts say you did. The gap is money walking out of the door, and it tells you where.
- Over-pouring, spills and waste nobody wrote down, in dollars
- Logged waste counted separately, so it isn't blamed on staff
- Only priced where it knows the real price
- The number no POS and no spreadsheet can give you
$212 nobody logged
Mostly the steaming jug filled too full, a hundred times a week.
Team and schedule
Staff for the day you'll actually have.
Cortado reads eight weeks of your own sales and suggests who should be on and when: two for the rush, one for the quiet afternoon, everyone inside the hours they gave you.
- Suggested from your busy hours, not a template
- Labor cost as a share of sales, before you publish
- Respects availability, weekly caps and California's 8-hour day
- Shifts appear on everyone's Google Calendar
Items an hour, from eight Tuesdays
Food safety
The inspector's folder, already done.
Fridge temperatures and opening and closing checks, scanned the same way as stock. A reading out of range can't be saved without saying what was done about it.
- Ninety days of fridge logs on one page
- Opening and closing checklists with who did them
- Every failure has its corrective action attached
- Printable the morning the inspector turns up
What was done about it
Door found ajar. Milk moved to the walk-in, re-checked 25 minutes later at 4.1°C.
Ninety days of this on one page, for the inspector.
Getting started
Running by this afternoon. We'll help if you'd like.
01
Check what you stock
Start from a list of what cafes carry, with units and case sizes filled in, or paste the list you already have.
02
Print the labels
Ordinary paper, ordinary printer. Stick one on each shelf and fridge.
03
Scan one
That's the whole daily routine. Connect Square when you're ready and sales start counting too.
Try it on your own shelves.
Counting is free forever. Everything else is $79 a month per location, with 21 days to try it first and no card to start.