MarginEdge

• Independent restaurants and multi-unit groups

  One flat price per location covers invoice processing, bill pay, inventory, recipes and reporting; larger groups get bespoke packages.

• Operators who want to stop keying in invoices

  Invoices sent by photo, email, upload or EDI are captured to line-item level within 24 to 48 hours and sent to accounting.

• Multi-unit and commissary operations

  Compare locations on one screen, manage order guides centrally and treat a commissary kitchen as a vendor.

• Accounting firms serving restaurants

  MarginEdge has a page and special pricing for accountants.

Less suited to: Restaurants outside the U.S. and Canada, and Canadian operators who want bill pay: the pricing page says U.S. restaurants only for now, and the FAQ says bill pay is not offered to Canadian clients.

• Automated invoice processing

  Invoices captured by photo, email, upload or EDI are digitised to line-item level, coded and matched to products within 24 to 48 hours.

• Price tracking and alerts

  Price Movers and alerts flag products whose invoice price moves beyond a threshold you set.

• Daily controllable P&L

  Combines nightly POS sales with invoice data to show cost of goods, labour and other costs against budget.

• Accounting sync

  Purchase and sales data, including daily sales entries in your GL format, is sent to the accounting system.

• Bill pay

  Pays vendor bills from MarginEdge, including by check on your behalf, with scheduling, partial payments and AutoPay; included and unlimited in the U.S.

• Vendor statement reconciliation

  Compares vendor statements with MarginEdge records to catch missed credits and short payments.

• MarginEdge Card

  A card that connects team spending to your books.

• Inventory counts and ordering

  Count sheets stay current with invoice prices and order guides are updated from invoices, with EDI ordering support and central management across locations.

• Theoretical versus actual usage

  Compares products sold with products used to show variance and waste.

• Liquor counts with Freepour

  An optional smart scale for liquor counts, sold as a bundle.

• Recipe costing and menu analysis

  Recipe costs update as invoices are processed, and menu engineering uses ingredient prices and product mix data.

• Digital recipe book

  A recipe viewer with photos and videos of prep techniques, usable on tablets.

• Commissary and internal transfers

  Treats a commissary as an outside vendor and records transfers between locations.

• Multi-location comparison

  Compare performance and budgets across locations on one screen.

• AI copilot and forecasting

  An in-app assistant named Tom, an AI connector for tools such as ChatGPT and Claude, and a custom sales forecast.

• Mobile app for invoice photos

  Take photos of invoices and view daily sales data from your POS.

• Onboarding and training

  Onboarding packages and professional services, including 1:1 software training.

Starting price

From USD 350 per location per month

Pricing model

Subscription per location

Minimum contract

None on monthly billing; 12 months on annual billing

MarginEdge costs $350 per location per month, with unlimited invoices processed and bill pay in the U.S. included. A bundle with the Freepour smart scale is $500 per location per month. Annual billing gives a 10% discount and a 12-month term. Toast users pay a pass-through API fee, and Toast requires a $50 per month Restaurant Management Suite subscription per location. There are no setup fees, but onboarding packages are offered. Large groups get bespoke pricing.

Accounting

Intuit QuickBooksXeroNetSuiteSage IntacctRestaurant365Microsoft Dynamic GPCompeatAccountingEdge

Payments

Comdata

Point of sale

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Scheduling

7shifts

MarginEdge lists many more POS systems than shown here and says it adds new ones often. Only a selection of well-known names from the logo lists is included.

Available in

United States, Canada

Platforms

Web, iOS

Apps

MarginEdge: Photograph invoices and view daily POS sales

Hardware

The optional Freepour smart scale is used for liquor counts; the pricing page notes a $500 fee for scales not returned.

The Our Story page says MarginEdge has clients in the U.S. and Canada; the pricing page says U.S. restaurants only for now.

Company

MarginEdge, Co.

Founded

2015 (per LinkedIn)

Headquarters

Arlington, United States

Other offices

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Founders

Brian Mills, Bo Davis, Roy Phillips

Team size

201 to 500 (per LinkedIn)

Funding

• Series D, $80M, August 2026
• Series B, $18M, September 2021

Customers named by the vendor

Clyde's Restaurant Group, South Block, Smokecraft Modern BBQ, Metropolitan Hospitality Group, Acropolis Greek Taverna, Bottled in Bond

Security and compliance

Hosted on AWS with encrypted communication, bank data encrypted at rest, annual penetration testing (no certification named)

Support

Unlimited email support and 1:1 software training are included in the subscription, and there is a help desk. Onboarding packages are extra.

Built for

Restaurants

Focus

Food-specific

Status

Active

Website

marginedge.com

Also listed in

Inventory ManagementPurchasing & ProcurementRecipe Costing & Menu Engineering

• CooksTime

  CooksTime is US restaurant bookkeeping software that connects to a restaurant's POS, bank and vendors to automate accounts payable, reconciliation and daily reporting.

  Runs on Web, iOS and Android, against Web and iOS for MarginEdge.

• Shoebooks

  Shoebooks is an Australian bookkeeping and payroll service that also sells its own cloud accounting software as a stand-alone product.

  Runs on Web, against Web and iOS for MarginEdge.

• ChefTec

  ChefTec is back-of-house software from Culinary Software Services of Boulder, Colorado, for recipe and menu costing, inventory control, purchasing and ordering, nutritional analysis and production.

  Runs on Web and Windows, against Web and iOS for MarginEdge.

• FoodNotify

  FoodNotify is a cloud platform from Vienna that combines supplier ordering, recipes with allergen and cost data, and inventory in one system with a single item master across sites.

  Runs on Web, against Web and iOS for MarginEdge.

Side-by-side tables built from the same profile data.

• MarginEdge vs CooksTime
• MarginEdge vs Shoebooks
• MarginEdge vs CooksTime vs Shoebooks

These points were not confirmed when this page was written.

• Investors in the Series D and Series B rounds
• Android app availability
• Interface languages
• Formal security certifications (SOC 2, ISO 27001)
• Full list of POS integrations (the vendor shows logos without names)
• Onboarding package prices
• Legal registration details

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.

1. Homepagehttps://www.marginedge.com/
2. Pricing and FAQhttps://www.marginedge.com/pricing/
3. Platform overviewhttps://www.marginedge.com/how-it-works
4. Invoice processinghttps://www.marginedge.com/automated-invoice
5. Bill pay and securityhttps://www.marginedge.com/bill-pay
6. Cost managementhttps://www.marginedge.com/food-cost
7. Inventory and orderinghttps://www.marginedge.com/inventory-management
8. Recipeshttps://www.marginedge.com/menu-analysis
9. Multi-unithttps://www.marginedge.com/for-multi-units
10. Accountantshttps://www.marginedge.com/for-accountants
11. AI featureshttps://www.marginedge.com/ai-for-restaurants
12. Onboardinghttps://www.marginedge.com/onboarding-and-training
13. POS integrationshttps://www.marginedge.com/pos-integration
14. Accounting integrationshttps://www.marginedge.com/accounting-integration
15. Story, client counthttps://www.marginedge.com/our-story/
16. Foundershttps://www.marginedge.com/team
17. Funding coveragehttps://www.marginedge.com/press
18. iOS apphttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/marginedge/id1591999728
19. HQ, founding year, sizehttps://www.linkedin.com/company/marginedge