The tour · stop 4 of 7 · inventory
Count it like you say it.
A stock count should be a walk, not a data-entry shift. Butter lays out each location the way you actually move through the building — and if your hands are full, tap the mic and just say what you see.
The count is the input.
The order is the output.
Counts aren't bookkeeping — they're what the fill-to-par order suggestions eat. A ten-minute walk on Tuesday is why Thursday's draft order is right.
Voice that never invents an item
Speak a burst — “two percent four, oat six” — and Butter matches every phrase against your real item list, fuzzily but honestly. Anything it can't place is handed back as “couldn't match — enter by hand,” with your exact words quoted. No phantom items, ever.
Blind by design
Count sheets start blank. Whoever's counting sees shelves, not last week's answer — which is the difference between a count and a copy.
A walk, not a spreadsheet
Items grouped by location in walking order, filtered by cadence — the weekly walk stays short, the monthly deep count stays monthly — with a sticky “14 of 22 counted” bar keeping score.
Toast stock, read live
POS-stocked items fold into the walk with their live Toast count shown alongside a blank entry — you count the shelf first, then see instantly if the register disagrees. Blind stays blind, even for the items Toast tracks.
86's feed the forecast
The moment Toast marks an item out of stock, Butter logs it — that's how the forecast knows an empty case from a slow day, and the out-of-stock page knows what needs rescuing.
History from day one
Bring past counts in through the backfill importer and the averages start warm. The importer link retires itself once Butter has banked enough of your own walks.
Invite-only beta · $99/mo per café when we open
Ten minutes with a mic beats an hour with a clipboard.
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We write to every café on the list when it's their turn · no card, no contract