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Craftable
Back of house inventory, invoice processing and costing built first for beverage led venues
As of 31 August 2026, Craftable's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. A restaurant back office platform that began as a bar inventory tool and still counts beverage better than food. Softwr lists it under Restaurants. Craftable is available on Web, iOS, Android.
Overview
What Craftable does
Craftable, previously sold under the Bevager and Foodager names, handles inventory counting, supplier invoice capture, purchasing, recipe and plate costing and accounts payable export for restaurants, bars and hotel food and beverage departments. Counts are taken on a mobile device, invoices are digitised to line item level, and costed recipes are kept current as supplier prices move. The distinguishing capability is depth on beverage. Bottles are counted by weight on a connected scale rather than estimated by eye, pours are costed to the fraction of an ounce, and variance is reported against POS depletion by product and by bartender. That matters commercially because liquor is the highest margin and highest shrinkage category in most venues, and a one point improvement in pour cost is usually worth more than the entire subscription. Food costing is present and competent but it is not the reason anyone chooses this product. Buyers are cocktail bars, hotel food and beverage teams, and restaurant groups where the bar carries the margin. The trade off is the module structure and the setup effort. A venue that wants both beverage and food control pays for both modules, and the first count plus item mapping against supplier catalogues is a project measured in weeks, not an afternoon.
What people use it 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
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Where it falls short
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- 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.
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What people choose instead of Craftable
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- CraftablevsRestaurant365
Restaurant365: If you want inventory and the accounting ledger itself in one system instead of exporting to an outside ledger
- CraftablevsxtraCHEF
xtraCHEF: If you already run Toast and want invoice capture and food costing inside that ecosystem
Pricing
What Craftable costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Beverage module
On request
- Bar inventory, pour costing and variance by product
- Priced per venue
- Scale hardware quoted separately
Food module
On request
- Kitchen inventory, plate costing and purchasing
- Priced per venue and quoted in addition to the beverage module
Invoice and accounts payable
On request
- Invoice digitisation with line item detail
- Ledger coding and export to the accounting system
- Volume of invoices affects the quote
Capabilities
Features
Weight based bottle counting
Partial bottles weighed on a connected scale instead of estimated visually
Invoice digitisation
Supplier invoices captured to line item level and price changes flagged
Recipe and plate costing
Live cost per drink and per dish as supplier prices change
Variance reporting
Theoretical usage from POS sales compared against counted stock
Purchasing and ordering
Orders raised against par levels and sent to suppliers from the platform
Accounts payable export
Coded invoices pushed to the accounting ledger for payment
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Questions people ask
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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.
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.
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.
Can it handle multiple venues under one group?
Yes, with consolidated reporting across venues, but each venue is priced individually.
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