The tour · start to finish
Seven stops, from the forecast
to the neighborhood.
Butter is one login that runs the unglamorous half of a café: the forecasting, the ordering, the paper. Walk it in order, or skip to the part that eats your Sunday night.
Forecasting
Butter forecasts demand, so an empty case at 9 a.m. never reads as “nobody wanted morning buns.” Fourteen days out, and graded against what actually sold every single day.
Ordering
A draft order waiting every order day: converted to cases, priced, and balanced between running out and throwing out, differently for milk than for morning buns.
Invoices
Forward invoices to your café's own inbox, or snap the paper. Butter reads every line, matches it to the order, and flags anything short before you pay for it.
Inventory
Blind counts by location, spoken out loud if you like (“oat milk six, whole milk four”), with live stock and 86's read straight from Toast.
Labor
Demand and crew in the same unit, fifteen minutes at a time. Staffing calls come in shifts someone can actually work, schedule vs actual is checked against the time clock, and every person on payroll gets a page, with named hours and pay for owner and Manager eyes only.
Consignment partners
Consignment splits tallied to the penny, payout reminders, and a real portal your makers can log into.
Community
New rivals ranked by overlap, local business news, and the events that actually move croissants.
And the connective tissue
The dashboard, alerts, roles and integrations.
The morning dashboard
One screen at 5 a.m.: what needs attention today (orders due, invoices to review, payouts owed), sales against a typical Tuesday, yesterday's forecast accuracy, the sky, and who said what about you overnight.
Notifications that respect the apron
Out-of-stocks, invoice mismatches, vendor price increases and payout reminders, sent in-app or by email, push, Slack, or Google Chat, set per person and per type. Money alerts loud, everything else quiet.
Roles that keep the books private
Owners see everything. Managers run the day. Members count stock and check pars, and never see a P&L. One login runs every café you own.
Toast-native, from the first sync
Connect with your café's own Toast credentials, and we walk you through the ask. Four weeks of history backfills on day one, your full history follows, and live webhooks catch sell-outs and refunds as they happen.
Weather, calendars, and the school district
Weather comes from your café's location. Google Calendar and ICS feeds plug in. Butter also finds the local school district's calendar, because early release moves cocoa.
Portals for the people who aren't staff
Vendors and consignment partners get their own secure logins (real-time sales for the maker, order history for the supplier) and never see your numbers.
★ ★ ★
ONE LOGIN · THE WHOLE CAFÉ
| forecasts, 14 days out | ✓ | |
| orders drafted & sent | ✓ | |
| invoices matched | ✓ | |
| counts (spoken aloud) | ✓ | |
| the rush staffed right | ✓ | |
| partners paid right | ✓ | |
| neighborhood watched | ✓ | |
| spreadsheets harmed | 0 |
THANK YOU FOR NOT GUESSING
Invite-only beta · from $49/mo per café when we open
See it run on your own café's sales.
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We write to every café on the list when it's their turn · no card, no contract