Restaurants · head to head
Craftable vs Plate IQ
Craftable
Restaurants
Back of house inventory, invoice processing and costing built first for beverage led venues
- From
- On request
- Rated
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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.; Plate IQ plate IQ has been rebranded to Ottimate, per the vendor: "Plate IQ, now Ottimate, began the journey to becoming the best AP automation AI"
- They diverge on capability: Craftable covers Weight based bottle counting, Plate IQ covers Invoice capture.
- Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which Craftable and Plate IQ actually diverge.
Identical on both: starting price (On request), free tier (No), platforms (Web, iOS, Android), 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 Plate IQ
- Invoice capture
- AP automation
- Price tracking
- Spend analytics
- Vendor management
- GL coding
- QuickBooks
- Xero
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 Plate IQ
- A hotel food and beverage department running several outlets and one central storenot Plate IQ
- A restaurant group that needs supplier invoices coded and exported to Sage Intacct without manual entrynot Plate IQ
- An operator who wants pour cost variance reported by bartender rather than only by venuenot Plate IQ
Plate IQ
- Automating invoice processing and accounts payable for restaurantsnot 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.
Plate IQ
- Plate IQ has been rebranded to Ottimate, per the vendor: "Plate IQ, now Ottimate, began the journey to becoming the best AP automation AI"
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
Plate IQ
On request- Pay per invoiceFree
- Invoice processing
- $0.99 per invoice
- Unlimited$399/month
- Unlimited invoices
- Full features
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 Plate IQ if
- You need invoice capture.
- You work on Web, Ios, Android.
- You also want ap automation.
Questions people ask
- Is Craftable or Plate IQ better?
- Neither clearly leads. Craftable starts at On request and Plate IQ at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, Craftable or Plate IQ?
- Craftable starts at On request and Plate IQ at On request.
- Does Craftable or Plate IQ run on more platforms?
- Craftable runs on Web, iOS, Android. Plate IQ runs on Web, Ios, Android.
- 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 Plate IQ is typically brought in for.
- What can Craftable do that Plate IQ cannot?
- Craftable covers Weight based bottle counting, Invoice digitisation, Recipe and plate costing, Variance reporting. Plate IQ covers Invoice capture, AP automation, Price tracking, Spend analytics.
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.
Plate IQ: Is pricing published for Ottimate?
No. Ottimate uses a sales-led model and directs visitors to 'Book a Demo' to discuss pricing based on customer needs.
SourceCraftable: 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.
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.
Craftable: Can it handle multiple venues under one group?
Yes, with consolidated reporting across venues, but each venue is priced individually.
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