FoodByUs
FoodByUs is an Australian procurement platform for hospitality venues. Restaurants, cafes, pubs, hotels, caterers and aged-care facilities use it to order from many wholesale suppliers through one credit application, capture supplier invoices with AI, track prices and cost menus. It also runs a manufacturer cashback program and connects to accounting and POS software.
Last reviewed

- Best for
- Restaurants, cafes and pubs in Australia, Multi-venue groups
- Pricing
- From $99 per month, billed monthly (currency not stated)
- Runs on
- Web
Who it is for
Restaurants, cafes and pubs in Australia
One login to order from hundreds of suppliers, with price tracking and invoice capture; customers quoted include Bistro Rex and The Depot Bondi.
Multi-venue groups
The Essential plan and above lets one login order for several venues; the Enterprise plan adds dedicated rollout and custom integrations.
Aged care, caterers and hotels
The site has separate pages for aged care, caterers and hotels and leisure, with an aged-care provider case study.
What it does
Digital ordering
Manage wholesale orders in one place, with a pantry list of frequently ordered products and order notes.
Marketplace
One credit application gives access to hundreds of suppliers across 16+ categories, with prices from 100+ suppliers visible.
Invoice Hub
Suppliers copy a unique Invoice Hub email; AI captures invoice lines and syncs prices for reconciliation and accounting.
Price tracking
Live supplier prices with 12 months of price history and spend reports.
Menu costing
Recipe and ingredient costing with real-time alerts on price increases.
Shop & Save cashbacks
Cashback on products from partner manufacturers ordered through the platform.
User management and notifications
Individual profiles, role-based permissions and control over who receives which notifications.
Accounting export
Pushes invoices to Xero, MYOB or QuickBooks after a one-time setup (Essential plan and above).
Trade financing
Pay supplier invoices with 7 to 14 day terms (30 days on one partner) through partners Shift and Butn.
Payments
Credit card, direct debit and EFT payments to suppliers.
Total spend report
Spend and spend-by-product reports; custom reports and export on Premium.
Pricing
- Starting price
- From $99 per month, billed monthly (currency not stated)
- Pricing model
- Subscription per business
- Free plan
- Yes
- Free trial
- Yes
The pricing page shows a Free plan, Essential at $99 per month billed monthly and Premium at $149 per month billed monthly; the page also shows lower yearly-billing figures ($79 and $119 per month); Enterprise is custom. The page shows only a $ sign and does not name the currency, so it is shown as "$". New sign-ups get 90 days free access to premium features; the vendor's site is Australian.
How it compares
Compared with the 12 products in Supplier Ordering Marketplace that have a profile on this site. These figures describe the category. They are not a recommendation.
- Names 15 integrations. The median in this category is 1.
- Has a free plan. 5 of the 6 products in this category that say whether they have a free plan do.
- Has a free trial. All 3 products in this category that say whether they have a free trial do.
- Lists Web only. Among the 11 products in this category that state their platforms, 3 list an iOS app and 3 list an Android app.
- The category's 10 most-named integration partners are QuickBooks, Xero, Cin7 Core, Cin7 Omni, MYOB, NetSuite, Square, Unleashed, Accredo, Adyen. Of these, this product's listing names QuickBooks, Xero, MYOB, Square.
Works with
- Accounting
- XeroMYOBQuickBooks
- Other
- Tenzo
- Payments
- American ExpressButnNuveiShiftZepto
- Point of sale
- SquareLightspeedH&LOolio SwiftposOrderMateTevalis
Bepoz and Idealpos are shown as coming soon and are not listed. The page names its POS partners as "H L" in text and "H&L" in the image alt.
Where and how it runs
- Available in
- Australia
- Platforms
- Web
The homepage footer lists suppliers in New South Wales and Victoria; the site says it is Australian-born and owned.
The company
- Company
- FBU Holding Co Pty Ltd
- Headquarters
- Australia
- Founders
- Tim Chandler, Ben Lipschitz, Gary Munitz
- Customers named by the vendor
- Red Rock Venues, Bistro Rex, The Depot Bondi, Charlie + Franks, Eating House, mecwacare, Suburban Dining Rooftop, Auvers Cafe
Security and support
- Support
- Support by email, WhatsApp and phone (1300 number); the plans add onboarding and training, and a dedicated account manager on Premium.
Listing details
- Built for
- Restaurants, Wholesale
- Focus
- Food-specific
- Status
- Active
- Website
- foodbyus.com.au
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REKKI
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Compare FoodByUs
Side-by-side tables built from the same profile data.
What we could not confirm
These points were not confirmed when this page was written.
- Contract term
- Founding year, headquarters city, funding and investors (named only as an image)
- Team size
- Security certifications
- Mobile apps (the homepage says run from your phone but names no app)
- Currency of the prices
Sources
Facts on this page come from the pages below, checked on 29 September 2026. Prices and features change, so confirm with the vendor before you buy.
- Homepagehttps://www.foodbyus.com.au/
- Planshttps://www.foodbyus.com.au/pricing/
- Feature listhttps://www.foodbyus.com.au/features/
- Marketplacehttps://www.foodbyus.com.au/wholesale-marketplace/
- Invoice Hubhttps://www.foodbyus.com.au/invoice-hub/
- Trade financinghttps://www.foodbyus.com.au/trade-financing/
- Integrationshttps://www.foodbyus.com.au/integrations/
- Company story and foundershttps://www.foodbyus.com.au/our-story/
- Cashback programhttps://www.foodbyus.com.au/shop-save-cashbacks/