Craftable

What is Craftable?

Craftable is a cloud-based back-office platform created for restaurants, bars, hotels, resorts, casinos, entertainment venues and multi-location hospitality groups. The software brings purchasing, inventory, recipe costing, accounts payable, payments and business intelligence together in one connected environment. By linking operational and financial data, Craftable helps hospitality teams understand what products cost, where inventory is moving, how vendor pricing changes and which variances are putting pressure on margins.

The platform is designed to replace manual spreadsheets, email-based ordering and disconnected invoice workflows with structured processes and real-time information. Purchasing teams can centralize vendor orders, work with order guides and catalogs, monitor pricing and route purchases through approval rules. Inventory teams can perform audits, track stock across departments and locations, record transfers and use mobile barcode scanning to speed up counts and receiving. Recipe costing connects ingredient prices with recipes so operators can see how changing purchase prices affect plate costs and menu profitability.

Highlights and important features

• Inventory and recipe management: Track physical inventory, transfers and usage while connecting live ingredient costs to recipes and menu items.
• Purchasing and vendor management: Centralize orders, vendor catalogs and purchasing workflows while monitoring price changes and contract exceptions.
• Accounts payable automation: Capture invoices from photos, email or files, extract invoice data with AI, match invoices to purchase orders and delivery receipts and route them for approval.
• Financial integration: Map invoice data to general ledger accounts and synchronize approved information with supported accounting and ERP systems.
• Reporting and business intelligence: Combine purchasing, sales, labor and inventory information in dashboards and reports to identify cost drivers, trends and operational variances.
• AI assistance: Use Craftable's AI capabilities to investigate operational data, analyze margins and cost changes, and draft recipes or purchase orders for review.
• Multi-location control: Manage stores, departments, brands and subsidiaries centrally, with consolidated reporting and configurable permissions.
• Mobile access: Work from smartphones and tablets with apps for iOS and Android, including barcode-supported inventory audits.

Benefits for hospitality operators

Craftable gives operations, culinary, purchasing and finance teams a shared data foundation. Instead of waiting until the end of a reporting period to discover food cost problems, users can compare actual and theoretical costs, review vendor price movements, examine inventory variances and monitor profitability as data becomes available. This can help teams react earlier to waste, over-ordering, pricing discrepancies and margin erosion.

For multi-unit organizations, centralized administration helps standardize recipes, vendors, reporting and purchasing controls without removing local visibility. Role-based permissions and approval workflows support accountability, while integrations with POS, supplier, accounting and ERP systems reduce duplicate data entry. Craftable is particularly relevant for hospitality businesses that want to connect day-to-day back-office operations with financial control and make purchasing and cost decisions on a more current data basis.

If your organization wants to improve food and beverage cost visibility, streamline purchasing and invoice processing, or establish more consistent back-office processes across multiple locations, Craftable provides a purpose-built platform that can be evaluated against your existing hospitality technology stack.