Yellow Dog Software

• Single restaurants wanting simple inventory

  A published monthly plan covers one restaurant with a POS integration and invoice scanning.

• Restaurants and bars needing actual versus theoretical food cost

  Recipe management supports cost of goods sold and actual versus theoretical analysis.

• Stadium, arena and venue concessions

  A separate concessions inventory product uses stand sheets and works with many venue POS systems.

• Multi-outlet hospitality groups

  Pricing scales by outlet and item count, and it lists clubs, lodging, hospitals and higher education as core markets.

• Mobile physical inventory

  Counts taken on mobile devices instead of paper and spreadsheets; the vendor says this saves 6 to 10 hours of labour a month.

• Retriever invoice automation

  Invoices arrive by email, upload or phone photo and are turned into inventory invoices, with a stated turnaround of 4 to 6 hours.

• Vendor EDI and purchase orders

  Imports electronic vendor invoices and sends purchase orders in the vendor's format (EDI, CSV and others).

• Vendor order guides

  Vendor price updates flow into inventory and requests can be used for competitive bidding.

• Recipe management

  Recipe costs update with prices, with target cost percentages per recipe.

• Waste tracking

  Records waste as one of the four core inventory workflows.

• Automatic revenue capture from the POS

  Imports sales from the point of sale for usage and cost calculations.

• Reporting

  Over 400 standard reports that can be customised and emailed on a schedule.

• Accounting exports

  Exports invoices, COGS, adjustments and revenue by file, API or built-in export tool, with an account code mapping grid.

• AP automation with Ottimate

  One-click send of invoices to Ottimate for approval routing and bill pay.

• E-commerce integration

  Interfaces to shopping carts that update item descriptions, prices, quantities and pictures.

• API

  Sales sync and generic sync interfaces for building new integrations.

Starting price

From USD 295 per month

Pricing model

Subscription per location

Minimum contract

2 years (single-restaurant plan)

A plan for a single food and beverage restaurant is $295 a month with a two-year contract and no upfront costs; it includes one store, one 1-way POS integration, Retriever unlimited scanned invoices and implementation. Larger businesses are quoted by outlets and items; unlimited users and mobile apps are included. Add-ons include e-commerce and vendor EDI integrations.

Compared with the 19 products in Inventory Management that have a profile on this site. These figures describe the category. They are not a recommendation.

• Names 27 integrations. The median in this category is 15.
• One of 5 products in this category with an iOS app. One of 5 products in this category with an Android app. 19 products in this category state their platforms.
• The category's 10 most-named integration partners are Lightspeed, QuickBooks, Toast, Clover, Square, Oracle Micros, Revel, Aloha, Xero, Sysco. Of these, this product's listing names Lightspeed, Toast, Clover, Square, Revel.

Accounting

Ottimate

Point of sale

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The POS page lists many more names, split into 2-way and 1-way interfaces for restaurants and retail and separate lists for concessions. It notes that the list reflects compatibility at the time of development and should be confirmed with sales. The site also lists vendor, bar scale, BI dashboard, e-commerce, catering, open-to-buy and electronic shelf label integrations without names.

Platforms

Web, iOS, Android

Hardware

Mobile apps run on the operator's own devices (bring your own device) or on handhelds sold through its web store; RFID options exist for retail. A stand-alone mode works without app stores or internet.

The vendor does not list countries. Its office is in Virginia and its phone number is a US number.

Founded

2006

Headquarters

Norfolk, United States

Support

Onboarding by implementation guides, a knowledge base with how-to articles and videos, monthly webinars and a customer support portal.

Built for

Restaurants, Food retail

Focus

Food-specific

Status

Active

Website

yellowdogsoftware.com

• MarketMan

  MarketMan is cloud software for restaurant back-of-house control.

  Starts at USD 249 per month, against USD 295 per month for Yellow Dog Software.

• Supy

  Supy is cloud software for restaurant procurement, inventory and reporting across many branches.

  Starts at USD 250 per month, against USD 295 per month for Yellow Dog Software.

• COGS-Well

  COGS-Well is cloud software for restaurant inventory, recipe and food-cost control.

  Runs on Web, against Web, iOS and Android for Yellow Dog Software.

• Orca Inventory

  Orca Inventory is inventory and ordering software for restaurants, bars and other hospitality businesses.

  Runs on Web, against Web, iOS and Android for Yellow Dog Software.

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

• Yellow Dog Software vs COGS-Well
• Yellow Dog Software vs Growzer
• Yellow Dog Software vs MarketMan
• Yellow Dog Software vs Mathership
• Yellow Dog Software vs Orca Inventory
• Yellow Dog Software vs StoreHouse
• Yellow Dog Software vs COGS-Well vs Orca Inventory
• Yellow Dog Software vs COGS-Well vs Growzer vs StoreHouse

These points were not confirmed when this page was written.

• Pricing for multi-store and concession customers
• Named customers (the vendor's site gives only a count of over 7,500 inventory outlets)
• Countries, languages and security certifications
• Team size and legal entity

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. Home pagehttps://www.yellowdogsoftware.com
2. Plans and priceshttps://www.yellowdogsoftware.com/pricing
3. Restaurant inventory featureshttps://www.yellowdogsoftware.com/fbinventory
4. Restaurantshttps://www.yellowdogsoftware.com/restaurants
5. POS integrationshttps://www.yellowdogsoftware.com/pos
6. Vendor EDIhttps://www.yellowdogsoftware.com/vendors
7. Accounting exports and Ottimatehttps://www.yellowdogsoftware.com/accounting
8. Mobile appshttps://www.yellowdogsoftware.com/mobileinventory
9. Companyhttps://www.yellowdogsoftware.com/aboutyd