Forecasting, ordering & the whole back of house — for independent cafés
Order exactly enough.
Butter plugs into your Toast POS and learns how your cafe actually sells — rainy Tuesdays, farmers-market Sundays, the 8:15 croissant rush. Then Butter writes next week's vendor order for you. You look it over and hit send.
One login · the whole back of house · independent cafés first
20–30% less wasteToast connected in an afternoonforecasts 14 days outorders, invoices, consignment & socials — one login
Calmer mornings,
in three steps.
Plug in Toast.
Two minutes, no spreadsheets. Every sale you've ever rung flows in, and Butter starts learning your rhythm — what sells, when, and how the weather bends it.
Teach Butter your vendors.
“We order Thursdays for Monday through Sunday.” “Deliveries come Mon, Wed, Fri.” “It's cases of 12, and they call our croissant BTRCR-12.” Butter speaks fluent supplier — schedules, pack sizes, SKUs, prices.
Approve and send.
Every order day, a draft is waiting: each item, each delivery day, already converted to cases and priced. Nudge a number if you like, hit send. Done before the first espresso's pulled.
Butter checks the
delivery, too.
Forward the invoice to your café's own Butter inbox — or snap a photo when the van pulls away. Butter reads every line, matches it against what you ordered — even when “Butter Croissant 12ct” shows up as “BTRCR-12” — and drafts the credit email for anything that's short. The math argues with the vendor so you don't have to.
Butter watches the weather, so you don't have to.
day of weekweatherholidayslocal eventssell-outs
That last one matters: when you 86 the morning buns at 9 a.m., Butter knows you sold out — and doesn't mistake an empty case for low demand. Most spreadsheets get that wrong forever.
One login · the whole café
Butter runs the back of house.
And helps fill the front.
Forecasting and ordering are just the start. Butter also closes out deliveries, counts your stock, runs your consignment partners, keeps an eye on the neighborhood, and writes your week of socials — while your team and vendors get their own roles and portals, across every café you run.
Behind the counter
- Forecast demand
- Fourteen days out — with day-of-week, weather, holidays, local events and sell-outs baked in.
- Order & receive
- Vendor-fluent drafts: order schedules, cut-offs, delivery days, pack sizes, SKUs and prices.
- Reconcile invoices
- Forwarded to your café's inbox or snapped, AI-read and matched line-by-line, with credit emails drafted for shorts.
- Stock & counts
- Pars, on-hand and what to reorder — resale items pulled live from your POS.
- Consignment
- Track shelf partners, tally exactly what you owe, and give each a portal to watch their own real-time sales.
Out in the neighborhood
- Events & promotions
- Butter learns what actually moves your sales, and finds local happenings and national days worth riding.
- Neighborhood radar
- New cafés nearby, your latest reviews, and local business news — at a glance.
- Social briefs
- A weekly, on-brand content plan in your voice — with Instagram performance and trends to jump on.
Run the team
- Roles & permissions
- Managers submit counts and pars under roles that keep your financials private.
- More than one café
- Run every café from a single login — your people and vendors can span them.
- Vendor & partner portals
- Invite vendors and consignment partners to their own secure, real-time view.
Questions
The short answers.
- What is Butter?
- Butter is a demand-forecasting and purchasing tool for independent cafés. It connects to your Toast POS, learns how you actually sell, and drafts your vendor orders so you order exactly enough — cutting waste without running out.
- How does Butter forecast demand?
- Butter analyzes your Toast sales history alongside day of week, weather, holidays, local events, and sell-outs. Because it knows when you 86'd an item, it doesn't mistake an empty case for low demand — a mistake most spreadsheets make forever.
- Which point-of-sale system does Butter work with?
- Butter connects to Toast. You link it once, in about two minutes, and every past sale flows in automatically.
- What does Butter do besides ordering?
- Butter reconciles delivery invoices line-by-line — forward them to your café's Butter inbox or snap a photo — and drafts credit emails for shorts. It tracks stock and pars, runs consignment with a secure partner portal, lets managers handle counts under roles that keep your financials private, monitors your neighborhood (new cafés, reviews, and local business news), and writes a weekly on-brand social plan — all from one login, across every café you run.
- Can my team and my vendors use Butter too?
- Yes. Invite managers with roles that keep sensitive financials private — they can submit weekly counts and calculate pars — and run more than one café from a single login. You can also invite consignment partners to a secure portal where they watch their own real-time sales across the cafés they stock.
- Who is Butter for?
- Independent cafés and coffee shops that want to cut waste and stop guessing their orders. It's built for the 5 a.m. bake, not the 10 a.m. meeting.
- How much does Butter cost?
- Butter replaces a stack of separate tools — forecasting, purchasing, invoice reconciliation, consignment, and social planning — with a single login built for an independent café. We're onboarding cafés batch by batch right now; join the waitlist and we'll walk through a plan that fits your shop.
Early access · rolling out batch by batch
Your next order could write itself.
Independent cafés first · no contract · just fewer guesses