Know What Every Dish Costs — Built Into Your POS

Most café POS stop at sales. Shopways turns your supplier invoices and recipes into a live food-cost picture — scan an invoice, see each dish's margin, and catch price rises before they eat your profit. Built into the iPad POS, free in every plan.

Included in every plan • iPad POS for Singapore cafés & restaurants
Shopways Costings — per-dish food cost and margin for a café menu, worst margins first

How Food-Cost Tracking Works

Three steps, no spreadsheet — the AI removes the typing, you keep the judgement.

1. Scan a supplier invoice

Photograph the delivery order or upload a PDF. The AI reads every line and updates your ingredient prices automatically.

2. Draft a recipe

Tap a dish and the AI scaffolds its recipe from your own ingredients. Confirm the portions — nothing is saved until you do.

3. See your margin

Get the plate cost, food-cost % and profit for every dish — worst margins first — so you know what to reprice or push.

Protect Your Margin, Not Just Take Orders

Catch price rises early

When a supplier nudges a price up, see exactly which dishes it hits and by how much — and whether another supplier is cheaper.

Plate vs actual

Compare what your recipes say your food cost should be against what you actually spent — the real waste check.

Quick estimates

Get an instant AI estimate of every dish's margin from its name and price — before you've entered a single recipe.

Preps & yields

Cost a sauce or dough once and reuse it across dishes, and account for trim and waste so the numbers are real.

Costings Included — No Extra Subscription

Food-cost tracking is part of every Shopways plan — one flat S$88/month, alongside the iPad POS, live order board and loyalty. No add-on, no per-feature upsell.

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Food-Cost Tracking — FAQ

No — that's the point. The AI reads your supplier invoices and drafts each dish's recipe from your ingredients. You just confirm the portions.

Yes — photograph the delivery order or upload a PDF (multi-page works too), and it extracts every line.

No. Food-cost tracking is included in the flat S$88/month plan, with everything else.

It's built for Singapore cafés and small restaurants — anywhere ingredient cost decides your margin. See our restaurant POS guide.