Same features as the "big" tools. A fraction of the cost.
MarketMan, MarginEdge, and xtraCHEF all charge $240–500/month per location for food cost tracking, supplier POs, and waste logs. Larder gives you the same — plus AI invoice OCR, recipe import, and card-payment tracking — for a small fraction of that.
Pilot program: free for 30 days (no card). Continuing past day 30 requires an annual subscription at a custom rate based on locations + volume — typically a fraction of MarketMan/MarginEdge. Public tiers ship later this year.
Every feature, every plan
No tiers that hide food cost behind a higher plan. No per-seat charges for your team. Everything below comes in the box.
- Unlimited users (no per-seat charges)
- Unlimited items, recipes, and orders
- Multi-location inventory with central-kitchen support
- Mobile-first counts and waste log
- Recipes with live food cost % vs target
- Variance dashboard — theoretical vs actual
- Comps & giveaways tracked separately (recipe-aware)
- Purchase orders with 3-way match + auto-email to suppliers
- Invoice OCR via AI (PDFs and photos)
- Recipe import from Word / PDF / photos / URLs
- Theoretical inventory from sales reports
- Card-payment tracking across every receipt scan
- Sales import — manual, CSV, or POS feed
- Dispatches between locations with atomic inventory updates
- End-of-day + end-of-week guided routines
What the other guys charge
Pricing publicly listed on each vendor's site or quoted by their sales teams. Numbers change; the gap doesn't.
Questions you probably have
We're running the pilot program — free for 30 days, then an annual subscription at a custom rate based on locations + volume. We're still calibrating against real operators before we lock public tiers. The product is the full feature set (invoice scan, mobile counts, recipes, variance, commissary, POS ingest, labor cost, accountant access) at a fraction of what enterprise tools charge. Email us and you'll get a quote in one reply.
Any physical place where food is stored, prepped, or served. A central kitchen counts as one. A satellite location counts as one. A food truck counts as one. A daycare classroom doing its own snack counts as one.
No. Add your whole kitchen, your accountant, your managers — all at the same price.
The 30-day pilot is no-strings — no credit card, no contract, walk away anytime. Continuing past day 30 requires an annual subscription, paid up front (or quarterly for multi-location accounts — ask when you get your quote). We don't do multi-year lock-ins, but month-to-month isn't on offer either — annual gives us the runway to support you properly + keeps the price below the enterprise alternatives.
Invoice + recipe OCR runs per-document (~$0.05 each), billed through Larder on your monthly invoice — no separate provider account needed.
Yes — CSV import is built in for items, recipes, sales, counts, and POs. Most operators migrate in an afternoon. Stuck? We'll help with the conversion.
No. Larder works fully standalone — record sales manually (2-minute end-of-day form) or paste a Z-report CSV. POS integration is on the roadmap; not required.
Yes. Hosted in US and Canada regions with encryption at rest and in transit, daily backups, and 7-day point-in-time restore. You own your data and can export the whole account as CSV at any time.
Edmonton, Alberta. The product was built by an accountant for a real restaurant client, then extended to bakeries, cafés, bars, and daycares as more clients came on.
Ready when you are.
30-day pilot, no card to start. Annual subscription after.