Restaurants · head to head
Craftable vs Toast POS
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.; Toast POS free tier limited to one or two terminals
- They diverge on capability: Craftable covers Weight based bottle counting, Toast POS covers Cloud POS.
- Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which Craftable and Toast POS 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 Toast POS
- Cloud POS
- Menu management
- Real-time reporting
- Inventory tracking
- Employee management
- Online ordering
- DoorDash
- Grubhub
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 Toast POS
- A hotel food and beverage department running several outlets and one central storenot Toast POS
- A restaurant group that needs supplier invoices coded and exported to Sage Intacct without manual entrynot Toast POS
- An operator who wants pour cost variance reported by bartender rather than only by venuenot Toast POS
Toast POS
- 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.
Toast POS
- Free tier limited to one or two terminals
- Setup fees and hardware requirements for paid plans
- Mobile ordering requires additional configuration
- Reporting and analytics features limited on entry-level plans
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
Toast POS
On request- Starter KitFree
- Cloud-based POS
- Order management
- Reporting
- Point of Sale$69/month
- Menu management
- Reporting & analytics
- 24/7 support
- Build Your Own$165/month
- Online ordering
- Delivery
- Marketing
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 Toast POS if
- You need cloud pos.
- You work on Web, Ios, Android.
- You also want menu management.
Questions people ask
- Is Craftable or Toast POS better?
- Neither clearly leads. Craftable starts at On request and Toast POS at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, Craftable or Toast POS?
- Craftable starts at On request and Toast POS at On request.
- Does Craftable or Toast POS run on more platforms?
- Craftable runs on Web, iOS, Android. Toast POS 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 Toast POS is typically brought in for.
- What can Craftable do that Toast POS cannot?
- Craftable covers Weight based bottle counting, Invoice digitisation, Recipe and plate costing, Variance reporting. Toast POS covers Cloud POS, Menu management, Real-time reporting, Inventory tracking.
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.
Toast POS: Does Toast POS have a free tier?
Yes. Toast's Starter Kit is free and designed for small restaurants with one or two terminals. It includes cloud-based POS, payment processing, order and table management, real-time reporting, and 24/7 customer support.
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.
Toast POS: What integrations does Toast POS support?
Toast integrates with payment processors, online ordering platforms, delivery services, accounting software, and customer data platforms for comprehensive restaurant operations management.
SourceCraftable: 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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