The tour · stop 5 of 6 · shelf partners
The empanada lady deserves real numbers.
Local makers on your shelf are the best kind of partnership — until the end of the month, when somebody owes somebody and the answer lives in a spreadsheet nobody trusts. Butter tallies every split from your actual Toast sales and keeps both sides looking at the same page.
Paid right, on time,
with receipts.
Splits from real sales
Each partner's cut is computed from net sales — after discounts, before tax — straight off the register. No end-of-month archaeology, no “I think we sold about forty.”
Payouts with a pulse
Butter knows each partner's schedule and nudges you only when a payout is actually due — “Accruing — next payout Monday” otherwise. Stale payouts and high balances raise their hand before they become awkward.
A portal your makers log into
Owed to you, earned this month, a 30-day chart, monthly statements with CSV download, and a payout log — under their own login, scoped to their items only. Your books stay yours.
They can plan production
Partners see a next-7-days demand outlook for their own items, plus plain-spoken reads: “Tuesdays are your best day — stock up the night before.”
Butter Knife, for insight
Butter's AI spreads a partner's sales data into smooth, actionable takes — refreshed weekly, shared by both sides, and deliberately blind to balances and payouts. Production talk, never money talk.
See what they see
One tap opens a read-only preview of a partner's exact portal view — so you're never guessing what Rosa's looking at when she calls.
Early access · rolling out batch by batch
Keep the makers. Lose the spreadsheet.
Independent cafés first · no contract · just fewer guesses