For independent cafés on Toast · invite-only beta
Everything
runs smoother
with Butter.
Your Toast register has been keeping notes for years. Every sale, every sell-out, every slow Monday is in there. Butter reads all of it, writes up the order, checks the delivery when it comes in, and tells you what's off and what to do about it. Nothing to type in. You go back to the bar.
Invite-only while we're in beta · from $49/mo per café when we open · we write when it's your turn
your register already holds years of your salesevery number in the app comes from your own registerevery suggestion shows its workcounts, orders, invoices, labor & consignment in one login
The whole idea
It starts with what
you already have.
Butter reads the sales Toast already has.
Every sale you've rung through Toast is still there, years of it, and it already says what sells, when, and how the week goes. Plug Toast in once and Butter starts reading. There's no spreadsheet to keep up.
The paperwork is done before you open.
The order is drafted in your vendor's own cases and prices, the delivery is checked line by line, and yesterday's forecast is graded. What you read is a line like “morning buns short by 5, flagged before you pay.”
More of the money stays in the till.
Fewer pastries end up in the bin and fewer short deliveries get paid in full. Sunday nights stop being about the calculator, and you get the time back for the bar and the regulars.
How it starts
Two things to set up,
then you approve the orders.
Plug in Toast.
One connection, no spreadsheets. You bring your café's own Toast credentials, and we walk you through the ask. Every sale you've ever rung flows in, and Butter starts learning your rhythm: what sells, when, and how the week 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 keeps each vendor's schedule, pack sizes, item codes and prices straight.
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.
Every morning, Butter grades yesterday's forecast.
day of weekholidays & school calendarsevents, measuredsell-outs
When you 86 the morning buns at 9 a.m., Butter reads it from your live Toast stock and doesn't mistake an empty case for low demand. Most spreadsheets get that wrong forever.
Then it shows its work. Every past day gets scored green, amber, or rose against what actually sold, and the bias is spelled out in plain English. When weather moves a number, the forecast says so on the day.
The tour · seven stops
Butter runs the back of house,
and watches the neighborhood too.
Every stop is its own page. Walk the whole thing, or skip to the part that eats your Sunday night.
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 flags anything that's short, with the exact lines and numbers you need to claim the credit.
Received · Mon 6:12 AM · Bakery Co.
| butter croissant | 48 / 48 | ✓ | |
| almond croissant | 22 / 22 | ✓ | |
| morning bun | 31 / 26 | −5 | |
| ham & gruyère | 18 / 18 | ✓ | |
| canelé | 12 / 12 | ✓ |
1 line short → flagged before payment ✓
The door
Invite-only, for now.
We're opening Butter a few cafés at a time, to owners who'll tell us what's wrong with it. When it opens to everyone it'll be $49 a month per café, or $99 for Butter Plus, which adds Reports, Consignment and Social, with the first 30 days free and no card. Until then, the list is how you get in. We write to every café on it when its turn comes.
Questions
The short answers.
- What is Butter?
- Butter runs the back of house for independent cafés, using the sales your Toast register already records. It learns how your café actually sells, drafts your vendor orders, checks your deliveries, and tells you what's off and what to do about it. You order about the right amount and get back to the counter.
- How does Butter forecast demand?
- Butter reads your Toast sales history alongside day of week, holidays, school calendars, and local events, and each event carries an uplift measured from your own sales. Because it reads your live Toast stock, it knows when you 86'd an item and doesn't mistake an empty case for low demand, which most spreadsheets get wrong forever. It also grades itself: every past day is scored against what Butter predicted, with the bias read out in plain English.
- Which point-of-sale system does Butter work with?
- Butter connects to Toast. You link it once with your café's own Toast credentials (Toast issues those, and we walk you through the request), and Butter pulls in every past sale.
- What do I have to set up?
- Two things. Connect Toast, and tell Butter how you order: which vendors, which days, and what comes in cases of what. Everything else it reads from your own sales. There's no product list to type in and no spreadsheet to keep up.
- What does Butter do besides ordering?
- Butter checks delivery invoices line by line (forward them to your café's Butter inbox or snap a photo) and flags every short before it's paid. It tracks stock and pars, draws the week's staffing call from the same demand curve that writes the order, runs consignment with a secure partner portal, lets managers handle counts under roles that keep your financials private, and watches your neighborhood for new cafés and local business news. It all runs 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. Butter handles the forecasting, ordering, invoices, labor and consignment behind the counter, so everything runs smoother.
- How do I get in?
- Butter is invite-only while it's in beta. Put your email and your café's name on the list and we'll write when your turn comes. We open a few cafés at a time so we can actually listen to each one. If you know an owner who's already on Butter, ask them to mention you.
- How much does Butter cost?
- Two plans. Butter is $49 a month per café and runs the day to day: inventory counting, sales history, demand forecasting and the prep sheet, vendor ordering, invoice checking, staffing and schedule-vs-actual, events, alerts and assistant access over MCP. Butter Plus is $99 and adds Reports, Consignment and Social. Consignment (with a partner portal) is also a $29 add-on to Butter. Nothing is metered, so vendors, invoices and the people you invite are never counted. When it opens, new cafés get 30 days free with all of Butter Plus on and no card, and cafés in the beta pay nothing while it lasts. Each café is its own subscription. Full details at getbutter.app/pricing.
Invite-only beta · from $49/mo per café when we open
Get your Sunday nights back.
Get on the list
We write to every café on the list when it's their turn · no card, no contract