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Craftable vs SevenRooms

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Craftable

Restaurants

Back of house inventory, invoice processing and costing built first for beverage led venues

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On request
Rated
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Full reviewWebsite
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SevenRooms

Restaurants

Guest experience and retention platform

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On request
Rated
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Full reviewWebsite

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.; SevenRooms higher price point at $499/month compared to OpenTable Basic at $149/month
  • They diverge on capability: Craftable covers Weight based bottle counting, SevenRooms covers Reservations.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Craftable and SevenRooms actually diverge.

Attributes where Craftable and SevenRooms differ
AttributeCraftableSevenRooms
Pricing modelquotesubscription
PlatformsWeb, iOS, AndroidWeb
FoundedUnknown2011

Identical on both: starting price (On request), 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 SevenRooms

  • Reservations
  • Table management
  • CRM
  • Marketing automation
  • Direct ordering
  • Guest data
  • Toast
  • Oracle

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 SevenRooms
  • A hotel food and beverage department running several outlets and one central storenot SevenRooms
  • A restaurant group that needs supplier invoices coded and exported to Sage Intacct without manual entrynot SevenRooms
  • An operator who wants pour cost variance reported by bartender rather than only by venuenot SevenRooms

SevenRooms

  • Point of Salenot Craftable
  • Order Managementnot Craftable
  • Inventory Controlnot Craftable
  • Staff Schedulingnot 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.

SevenRooms

  • Higher price point at $499/month compared to OpenTable Basic at $149/month

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

SevenRooms

On request
  • EssentialFree
    • Custom pricing
    • Reservations
    • CRM
  • ProfessionalFree
    • Custom pricing
    • Marketing
    • Analytics
  • EnterpriseFree
    • Custom pricing
    • Full platform

Which should you pick?

Choose Craftable if

  • You need weight based bottle counting.
  • You work on Web, iOS, Android.
  • You also want invoice digitisation.
Craftable review

Choose SevenRooms if

  • You need reservations.
  • You also want table management.
SevenRooms review

Questions people ask

Is Craftable or SevenRooms better?
Neither clearly leads. Craftable starts at On request and SevenRooms at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Craftable or SevenRooms?
Craftable starts at On request and SevenRooms at On request.
Does Craftable or SevenRooms run on more platforms?
Craftable runs on Web, iOS, Android. SevenRooms runs on Web.
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 SevenRooms is typically brought in for.
What can Craftable do that SevenRooms cannot?
Craftable covers Weight based bottle counting, Invoice digitisation, Recipe and plate costing, Variance reporting. SevenRooms covers Reservations, Table management, CRM, Marketing automation.

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.

SevenRooms: What does SevenRooms cost?

SevenRooms starts at $499/month. SevenRooms is differentiated from OpenTable and Resy by offering the deepest CRM capabilities for guest intelligence and loyalty programs.

Source
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.

SevenRooms: How does SevenRooms compare to OpenTable?

OpenTable has basic tiers starting at $149/month, but cover fees apply on network bookings and your brand takes a back seat in guest communications. SevenRooms at $499/month offers more control and deeper CRM functionality.

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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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