Restaurants · head to head
Craftable vs PAR Brink POS
Craftable
Restaurants
Back of house inventory, invoice processing and costing built first for beverage led venues
- From
- On request
- Rated
- -
PAR Brink POS
Restaurants
Cloud point of sale for enterprise quick service chains and their franchisees
- From
- On request
- Rated
- -
The short version
- Each has a real cost: Craftable beverage and food are separately licensed modules, so a venue with a full bar and a full kitchen is quoted twice for the same address and the effective per venue cost is roughly double the headline.; PAR Brink POS the suite was assembled by acquisition, so loyalty, ordering, back office and POS still carry separate data models and administration consoles rather than one unified system.
- They diverge on capability: Craftable covers Weight based bottle counting, PAR Brink POS covers Enterprise menu and price control.
- Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which Craftable and PAR Brink POS actually diverge.
| Attribute | Craftable | PAR Brink POS |
|---|---|---|
| Platforms | Web, iOS, Android | Web, Android, Windows |
Identical on both: starting price (On request), pricing model (quote), free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Restaurants).
What each one covers
Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.
Only in Craftable
- Weight based bottle counting
- Invoice digitisation
- Recipe and plate costing
- Variance reporting
- Purchasing and ordering
- Accounts payable export
Only in PAR Brink POS
- Enterprise menu and price control
- Drive through and speed of service
- Open integration interfaces
- Loyalty through Punchh
- Back office through Data Central
- Hardware range
What people use each for
The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.
Craftable
- A cocktail bar where liquor shrinkage is material and eyeballed bottle counts are not accurate enoughnot PAR Brink POS
- A hotel food and beverage department running several outlets and one central storenot PAR Brink POS
- A restaurant group that needs supplier invoices coded and exported to Sage Intacct without manual entrynot PAR Brink POS
- An operator who wants pour cost variance reported by bartender rather than only by venuenot PAR Brink POS
PAR Brink POS
- A franchisor standardising the point of sale across hundreds of franchised locationsnot Craftable
- A quick service brand where drive through timing and speed of service reporting drive operationsnot Craftable
- A chain that wants POS, loyalty and back office contracted through a single vendornot Craftable
- A brand needing documented interfaces so its own developers can build ordering and delivery integrationsnot Craftable
Where each one falls short
Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.
Craftable
- Beverage and food are separately licensed modules, so a venue with a full bar and a full kitchen is quoted twice for the same address and the effective per venue cost is roughly double the headline.
- Invoice digitisation only helps if your suppliers are covered and their documents are legible; a venue buying from small local producers with handwritten dockets will still key those in by hand.
- Accurate variance depends on counting on a fixed cadence, and venues that slip from weekly to monthly counts get numbers too stale to act on, which is the most common reason implementations quietly fail.
- Weight based counting needs connected scales at each venue, an unbudgeted hardware cost that grows with the number of bars in the building.
- Implementation requires mapping every item to supplier catalogue codes and building recipes before the first useful report, typically several weeks of a manager time that nobody has allocated.
PAR Brink POS
- The suite was assembled by acquisition, so loyalty, ordering, back office and POS still carry separate data models and administration consoles rather than one unified system.
- Pricing and contracting assume estate scale, which leaves an individual franchisee paying enterprise rates without enterprise negotiating leverage.
- Hardware and implementation are separate line items that typically exceed the first year of software subscription at a new site.
- Roll outs are project managed over months, so a brand needing a system live at a site opening in a few weeks will struggle.
- PAR is a listed company under margin pressure and has raised prices as it consolidates its acquisitions, which makes renewal costs harder to forecast across a long franchise agreement.
Pricing, plan by plan
Craftable
On request- Beverage module$undefined/year
- Bar inventory, pour costing and variance by product
- Priced per venue
- Scale hardware quoted separately
- Food module$undefined/year
- Kitchen inventory, plate costing and purchasing
- Priced per venue and quoted in addition to the beverage module
- Invoice and accounts payable$undefined/year
- Invoice digitisation with line item detail
- Ledger coding and export to the accounting system
- Volume of invoices affects the quote
PAR Brink POS
On request- Brink POS$undefined/year
- Priced per site per month under a franchisor or corporate agreement
- Terminals, kitchen displays and drive through hardware quoted separately
- Implementation and roll out delivered as a project
Which should you pick?
Choose Craftable if
- You need weight based bottle counting.
- You work on Web, iOS, Android.
- You also want invoice digitisation.
Choose PAR Brink POS if
- You need enterprise menu and price control.
- You work on Web, Android, Windows.
- You also want drive through and speed of service.
Questions people ask
- Is Craftable or PAR Brink POS better?
- Neither clearly leads. Craftable starts at On request and PAR Brink POS at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, Craftable or PAR Brink POS?
- Craftable starts at On request and PAR Brink POS at On request.
- Does Craftable or PAR Brink POS run on more platforms?
- Craftable runs on Web, iOS, Android. PAR Brink POS runs on Web, Android, Windows.
- What is Craftable best used for?
- Craftable is most often used for a cocktail bar where liquor shrinkage is material and eyeballed bottle counts are not accurate enough, a hotel food and beverage department running several outlets and one central store, a restaurant group that needs supplier invoices coded and exported to sage intacct without manual entry, an operator who wants pour cost variance reported by bartender rather than only by venue. Of those, a cocktail bar where liquor shrinkage is material and eyeballed bottle counts are not accurate enough and a hotel food and beverage department running several outlets and one central store are not what PAR Brink POS is typically brought in for.
- What can Craftable do that PAR Brink POS cannot?
- Craftable covers Weight based bottle counting, Invoice digitisation, Recipe and plate costing, Variance reporting. PAR Brink POS covers Enterprise menu and price control, Drive through and speed of service, Open integration interfaces, Loyalty through Punchh.
Answered from the vendors’ own pages
Craftable: Is Craftable the same product as Bevager and Foodager?
Yes. Those were the beverage and food product names before the platform was consolidated under the Craftable brand; they are now modules rather than separate products.
PAR Brink POS: Who chooses Brink, the franchisor or the franchisee?
Almost always the franchisor, as an estate standard. The franchisee implements and pays for it.
Craftable: Does it replace my accounting system?
No. It codes and exports invoices into an existing ledger such as QuickBooks or Sage Intacct rather than becoming the ledger.
PAR Brink POS: Does PAR supply loyalty as well as POS?
Yes, through Punchh, which PAR acquired. It is licensed separately from the POS.
Craftable: Do I need the scale hardware?
Only for beverage. Weighing partial bottles is what makes liquor variance reliable; without it you are back to tenth of a bottle estimates.
PAR Brink POS: Is it suitable for an independent restaurant?
Not really. The value is in central control across many sites, which an independent does not need and still pays for.
Craftable: Can it handle multiple venues under one group?
Yes, with consolidated reporting across venues, but each venue is priced individually.
PAR Brink POS: Does it work offline?
Terminals continue to operate through network interruptions, which matters in drive through environments where a stall is measured in seconds.
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