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MarginEdge Product Details

MarginEdge is a restaurant management software that uses the power of both POS and invoice data to show you your food and labor costs in real-time - enabling you to make impactful decisions in the moment. MarginEdge radically streamlines key activities like invoice entry and approval, inventory, ordering, recipe costing and bill payment, while providing powerful tools to run your BOH like live budget and cost-tracking, recipe analysis and sales reporting. Made for both the operator and their bookkeeper, MarginEdge currently integrates with 50+ POS systems and 15 accounting systems. As a team built by former (and current!) restaurant operators, part of our mission is to bring operators the same energy, attention to detail, and passion that they bring to their guests. Our culture is deeply rooted in service, partially because that’s where so many of our team came from, but also because we believe it is just the right way to run a business. We design our software with profound empathy for the complexity of running a restaurant, and the goal of making the magic just a little easier for operators by taking the complex (read: very annoying) back office tasks off their plate, while empowering them with real-time data. We are die-hard restaurant fans, and do whatever we can to lend a helping hand whenever it’s needed. Our solutions were built for the purpose of making operators’ lives easier, so as we grow, we will continue on that path bringing data and best practices to our clients and industry at large.

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Product Description

MarginEdge offers the first restaurant solution to combine paperless invoice processing with POS and accounting integrations - giving you a real-time understanding of food and recipe costs, actual vs. theoretical analysis, and a daily controllable P&L. Take pictures of your invoices and we code 100% of the information into your chart of accounts, including hand written adjustments. Manage food costs, inventory, recipes and all aspects of your AP with unlimited bill pay - all for one flat monthly fee.

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Everything included for one flat price

Starting at $300.00

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MarginEdge Demo - Automated invoice processing

You send us your invoices, and we process them in 24-48 hours. No more spreadsheets. No more stacks of paper. No more manual entry! Save countless hours on admin work, so you can focus more time on the profit centers of your business.

MarginEdge Demo - Better inventory management tools

Better inventories = better control over food costs. MarginEdge makes taking inventory easier, faster, and more informative, so you can maximize your time and profitability. We process invoices in 24-48 hours, so product prices are automatically updated and new products are already on inventory c...

MarginEdge Demo - Powerful financial reporting

MarginEdge uses POS and invoice data to generate powerful reports. Get a daily controllable P&L, track food and labor costs in real time, see actuals vs. theoreticals, track budgets, and more all from one central location.

MarginEdge Demo - Centralized recipe management

Recipes impact everything from profitability to staff training. MarginEdge’s recipe management is a centralized solution that calculates plate costs, automatically updates ingredient prices for you, and provides a single, shared playbook for your entire team, even if you have multiple locations.

MarginEdge Demo - Unlimited bill payments

Whether it's Gordon Food Service or a liquor distributor, MarginEdge lets you easily manage and pay all your bills from one central location in just a few clicks, saving you time and money.

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Brian M.

Owner / Operator

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/1/2025

"Easy to use Get the information you need when you need it"

5/5

What do you like best about MarginEdge?

The most helpful for me is pricing information and food cost. Taking in inventory is a breeze so easy to go back in correct and find the problems. It attracts the usage of each item in the menu costing cards.

Handling of the invoices super easy it’s pretty seamless from receiving it all the way to being paid through my accountant. I can go back and find invoices with so much ease.

It doesn’t matter what system you’re on whether you’re on the 13 period or a monthly basis you can pretty much pull up whatever kind of report you want to see as far as product sales

I’ve tried some of the other software‘s nothing compares to MarginEdge . I am a customer for life. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MarginEdge?

the difficult part for me was learning the terminology that they use and how they break Products down for costing cards Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MarginEdge solving and how is that benefiting you?

With all the different products and food items that come in the back door, it tracks the price of each one of them and gives me the effect that items price has on my food cost

I’m able to separate and run reports for all the different categories on my PL food cost and non alcoholic beverages, janitorial supplies, paper product, it does it all for me with easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Ryan H.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/13/2023

"Provides a lot of functionality, helps determine costs and items that are missing"

4.5/5

What do you like best about MarginEdge?

Having the invoices being ingested then being able to do inventory, receipes and other functions with the items that are available. There is a lot of very nice features but they take time to setup and understand. Looking forward to future updates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MarginEdge?

The mobile application lacks a lot so it requires you to log into the web site for most of the functionality. A few of the features are complex and take a little time to get used to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Tracy Scott of MarginEdge

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Hi Ryan, thank you so much for taking the time to leave us some awesome feedback. We are thrilled to hear you are finding many benefits from MarginEdge. That is our goal! We hear you on the mobile app and want to assure you that we’re continuously working towards parity with our desktop functions (so hopefully that won’t be a dislike for long!). Thanks again.

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Katie A.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/15/2023

"Super easy to use!"

5/5

What do you like best about MarginEdge?

I love that I can contact someone directly and MarginEdge is always very efficient to respond and help me out. All the help articles are detailed but still digestible and easy to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MarginEdge?

I wish there were more features available in the mobile app. Specifically in editing invoices that are Pending approval. It can be a pain to have to locate a computer just to make those quick changes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Tracy Scott of MarginEdge

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Hi Katie, thanks so much for your review, we are always thrilled to get feedback, especially feedback like this! We understand how important it is to have people to connect with at all times and really value our support team and help site resources. Thanks again for your continued support.

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Heather M.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/12/2023

"All in one invoice and inventory manager"

4.5/5

What do you like best about MarginEdge?

It's a strong tool to help us with our restaurant business. We can go to marginedge for pricing out menu items as well as for price alerts, menu analysis, inventory, bill pay and inventory among other things! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MarginEdge?

There are a few bugs in the system particularly with their recipe builder. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Tracy Scott of MarginEdge

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Hi Heather, thank you for taking the time to leave us a review! We are stoked that you are finding great use in MarginEdge, from pricing to ordering. It is super awesome to hear you are getting a well-rounded experience. Thanks again!

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Jessica E.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/6/2023

"Needs further development"

1.5/5

What do you like best about MarginEdge?

I like that you can centralize all concepts within one platform. You can order directly from the site if the purveyor you use will accept those orders via email. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MarginEdge?

Mapping. If you ring a sales item and you have the recipe in the system it should automatically map it. I also dislike there are so many issues with invoice transcriptions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MarginEdge solving and how is that benefiting you?

I'm not aware that they are currently working on anything but integration. I wish they would focus on making the whole process more streamlined. Also that they would have a program that piggy backs to keep their staff from spelling items wrong or abbreviating them in a way that makes looking for products impossible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Tracy Scott of MarginEdge

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A very sincere thank you for taking the time to send the review. It certainly sounds like we're missing the mark for you and your team in a few spots - which we take seriously.

Our Director of Product, Nick is going to shoot you an email to set up some time to chat (if you're open to it). We'd love to hear more about these pain points and how we can make this right moving forward.

Stay tuned, and thanks again!

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Verified User in Restaurants

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/12/2023

"Good but need some development"

4/5

What do you like best about MarginEdge?

1. the Best thing about ME is the quality of the bills with Lineitem they process

2. Export Funcitility

3. Easy Integration with Accounting Software

4. Bills pay, Recipe, and Inventory management are add-on things

5. Purchase History report and Budget Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MarginEdge?

1. They took 48 hours and sometimes more than that to process a bill. this needs improvement. when bills do not have lien items they should be processed earlier. right now we are not able to set up Vendor.

2. More elaborative details of the export error or issue

3. in QBO, if the classes are set up. there should be an option to process bills in class or update/change the class.

4. Labot module is missing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Jennifer Burdick of MarginEdge

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Thank you so much for taking the time to send your thoughts! This super detailed view of your experience is invaluable to us - especially as we work to double down on our finance product features. While we’re thrilled to hear we’re checking some of the boxes for you and your team, it sounds like we’re missing the mark on others. We’re eager to hear more and even help work through some hiccups together.

If you’re up for it, we’d love to connect you with Christian, our Controller in Residence to chat through your feedback and explore next steps to meet your needs. Given the anonymity of your review, could you shoot us a note back at hello@marginedge.com and we’ll send along the Calendly link to schedule the conversation? Thanks again, you’re appreciated!

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Verified User in Restaurants

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/25/2023

"MarginEdge"

4/5

What do you like best about MarginEdge?

It helps track all of our sales and invoices. It provides a mean of organization while also having other features that may benefit us from a business and utilization aspec. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MarginEdge?

The app can be buggy at times. As we continue to add MarginEdge into our everyday use, there's times where I personally see things like invoices not always going through or the app glitching out on me and preventing me from using certain uses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Tracy Scott of MarginEdge

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Hello and thank you so much for taking the time to review MarginEdge, we really appreciate it. Every time we see the review notification come to our inbox, we do a virtual high-five. Happy to see you are incorporating MarginEdge into your restaurant on a daily basis, really exciting! We have sent your feedback to the product team as they are constantly working on improving your experience for a bug-free app, sometimes those little buggers do pop up. If you ever want to connect with any additional details to improve your experience please email me directly tscott@marginedge.com.

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Izadora R.

Kitchen Manager

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/16/2023

"Great inventory manager"

4.5/5

What do you like best about MarginEdge?

User friendly system. Great to manage inventory, specially with more than one store and transferring products from one another. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MarginEdge?

Transfer reports could print comments section as well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Tracy Scott of MarginEdge

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Hi Izadora! Thanks so much for the review! It means a lot that you took the time to share your feedback with us, as it's the only way we continuously improve. We're thrilled to hear how smooth inventory management has been, and noted on transfer reports - I've shared this with our product team to explore further (which they’re actively doing so now). In the meantime, we’ll reach out to set up some time to chat through your other pieces of feedback. Thanks again!

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Rebecca B.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/24/2023

"Works nicely for inventory purposes"

4/5

What do you like best about MarginEdge?

Inventory ease of use. And figuring out cost of menu items is simplified. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MarginEdge?

A lot of mistakes on order input. I.e., 2 different orders of the same vinegar get labelled two different names. And quite a few misspellings from the folks typing in inputs. Would prefer to be able to edit the recipe cards to my liking, and I wish that I could print a "tuesday order guide." Could be that I'm used to creating my own programs and that your product is just fine for what it is. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Tracy Scott of MarginEdge

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We aim to make inventory easier so we are really happy to hear your feedback, Rebecca. We're a bit disheartened to see you are having a lot of errors on order input, as our goal is to make things easier, not harder. Please feel free to email me directly at tscott@marginedge.com if you would like to share details of your experience or address the specific errors you have mentioned.

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Johnathon P.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/24/2023

"Excellent product with rough customer service"

3.5/5

What do you like best about MarginEdge?

The automatic upload of invoices is a great time saver. If you have enough time to upload all your recipes the variance tracking is great. You should bring on consultants you can refer to help upload recipes for clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MarginEdge?

Customer service team is not great. Condisending and lack humility. Also the product upload can be wrong fairly often. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.