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Craftable vs Oracle MICROS Simphony

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Craftable

Restaurants

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

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Oracle MICROS Simphony

Restaurants

Enterprise cloud point of sale for large restaurant, hotel and stadium food service operations

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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.; Oracle MICROS Simphony the software subscription is a minor part of total cost; proprietary workstations, reseller implementation and configuration services usually dominate the first year budget.
  • They diverge on capability: Craftable covers Weight based bottle counting, Oracle MICROS Simphony covers Enterprise menu hierarchy.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Craftable and Oracle MICROS Simphony actually diverge.

Attributes where Craftable and Oracle MICROS Simphony differ
AttributeCraftableOracle MICROS Simphony
PlatformsWeb, iOS, AndroidWeb, iOS, 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 Oracle MICROS Simphony

  • Enterprise menu hierarchy
  • Offline terminal operation
  • Hotel property integration
  • Kitchen display and order routing
  • Inventory and recipe management
  • Reporting and analytics

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

Oracle MICROS Simphony

  • A hotel group that needs restaurant, bar and room service charges posting to the guest folionot Craftable
  • A stadium or arena running dozens of concession stands under one menu and tax structurenot Craftable
  • A casino or resort with many outlets, complex comps and strict audit requirementsnot Craftable
  • A large chain that requires terminals to keep trading and settling cards during a network outagenot 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.

Oracle MICROS Simphony

  • The software subscription is a minor part of total cost; proprietary workstations, reseller implementation and configuration services usually dominate the first year budget.
  • Deployments are project work measured in months with specialist configuration, so a single site opening in six weeks cannot realistically be put on it.
  • Support runs through Oracle service requests or a reseller rather than direct chat, and resolution pace reflects enterprise support processes rather than restaurant urgency.
  • Hardware is proprietary and replacement units are priced at enterprise levels, so a broken terminal is not solved by buying a tablet locally.
  • The interface and administration tools are dense and dated compared with cloud native competitors, which lengthens training for high turnover front of house teams.

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

Oracle MICROS Simphony

On request
  • Simphony$undefined/year
    • Subscription quoted per workstation per month by tier
    • Proprietary MICROS workstation and tablet hardware quoted separately
    • Implementation and configuration delivered by Oracle or a reseller and billed 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.
Craftable review

Choose Oracle MICROS Simphony if

  • You need enterprise menu hierarchy.
  • You work on Web, iOS, Android, Windows.
  • You also want offline terminal operation.
Oracle MICROS Simphony review

Questions people ask

Is Craftable or Oracle MICROS Simphony better?
Neither clearly leads. Craftable starts at On request and Oracle MICROS Simphony at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Craftable or Oracle MICROS Simphony?
Craftable starts at On request and Oracle MICROS Simphony at On request.
Does Craftable or Oracle MICROS Simphony run on more platforms?
Craftable runs on Web, iOS, Android. Oracle MICROS Simphony runs on Web, iOS, 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 Oracle MICROS Simphony is typically brought in for.
What can Craftable do that Oracle MICROS Simphony cannot?
Craftable covers Weight based bottle counting, Invoice digitisation, Recipe and plate costing, Variance reporting. Oracle MICROS Simphony covers Enterprise menu hierarchy, Offline terminal operation, Hotel property integration, Kitchen display and order routing.

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.

Oracle MICROS Simphony: Is Simphony the same thing as MICROS?

Simphony is the cloud generation of the MICROS POS line. Oracle acquired MICROS Systems in 2014 and Simphony is the product it sells now.

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.

Oracle MICROS Simphony: Can it run offline?

Yes. Workstations continue taking and settling orders through a network outage, which is one of the main reasons large venues still choose it.

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.

Oracle MICROS Simphony: Do I buy it directly from Oracle?

Usually through an Oracle hospitality reseller, who also performs the implementation and often provides first line support.

Craftable: Can it handle multiple venues under one group?

Yes, with consolidated reporting across venues, but each venue is priced individually.

Oracle MICROS Simphony: Is it suitable for a single independent restaurant?

Rarely. The implementation cost and administration overhead only make sense at estate scale or where hotel property integration is required.

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