Inventory & Supplier Management**Purpose**
1.2. Automates availability status for food items, ensuring customers only order in-stock items and streamlining kitchen operations.
1.3. Enables dynamic visibility of dish options across all channels: POS, app, delivery platforms, website, and digital menus.
1.4. Triggers automated supplier reorders when stocks fall below thresholds, supporting uninterrupted dish preparation.
1.5. Supports automating reporting for stock-outs and immediate menu deactivation, reducing manual interventions.
1.6. Provides instant automated allergy/specials alerts reflecting ingredient shortages or new stock arrivals.
**Trigger Conditions**
2.2. New inventory arrival updates logged in inventory system database.
2.3. Item marked as 0 or negative stock after recent sale or spoilage report.
2.4. Manual override by kitchen or manager for emergency menu change, automatedly propagating system-wide.
**Platform Variants**
3.1. **Square POS**
• Feature/Setting: Inventory Webhook API—trigger automating menu changes when item_stock.updated fires.
3.2. **Toast POS**
• Feature/Setting: Real-Time Menu API—automates updateItems endpoint with new item statuses based on current stock.
3.3. **Upserve (Lightspeed Restaurant)**
• Feature/Setting: Inventory Event Notifications—configurable stock alerts automatedly invoke the Menu Sync API for updates.
3.4. **Oracle MICROS**
• Feature/Setting: Stock Event Listener—automates push updates to Menu Board API reflecting dish disable/enable events.
3.5. **Revel Systems**
• Feature/Setting: Inventory Management API—automates onhand_quantity_changed webhook to adjust active menu items.
3.6. **Shopify Restaurant Apps**
• Feature/Setting: Inventory Level API—automator for automatedly updating product status/availability tags.
3.7. **Olo**
• Feature/Setting: Inventory Stock Feed—automation via Items endpoint for dynamic menu sync with third-party delivery channels.
3.8. **Deliverect**
• Feature/Setting: Product Availability API—automates disabling menu items on external portals when out-of-stock events detected.
3.9. **Flipdish**
• Feature/Setting: Real-Time Inventory API—automation by linking menu item visibility rules to inventory webhooks.
3.10. **GloriaFood**
• Feature/Setting: Menu API—automated PATCH requests with sold_out or available status for each item.
3.11. **Xero**
• Feature/Setting: Inventory API—automates adjusting description field in menu sync routines based on stock status.
3.12. **QuickBooks Commerce**
• Feature/Setting: ProductVariant Webhooks—automation for menu database update trigger on inventory change.
3.13. **Monday.com**
• Feature/Setting: Automations Feature—set up status change automation from Stock Boards to push via REST API to menu endpoints.
3.14. **Zapier**
• Feature/Setting: Webhooks Automation—when inventory app signals stock change, trigger automated updates in menu management platform.
3.15. **IFTTT**
• Feature/Setting: Applet connecting inventory system and online menu—triggers automate menu items' in/out-of-stock statuses.
3.16. **Jotform Tables**
• Feature/Setting: Inventory Quantity Tracker—automated conditions to email JSON to menu updater API when row threshold hit.
3.17. **Zoho Inventory**
• Feature/Setting: Workflow Automation—creates rule to automatically trigger menu API based on real-time inventory status.
3.18. **Google Sheets**
• Feature/Setting: Google Apps Script—automates script to POST updates to restaurant menu management endpoint as stock levels change.
3.19. **Microsoft Power Automate**
• Feature/Setting: Scheduled/trigger-based flows—automates menu database update when inventory record changes detected.
3.20. **Slack**
• Feature/Setting: Incoming Webhooks—automated alerts to relevant staff and/or automation apps to sync menu after stock change announced.
**Benefits**
4.2. Automating reduces staff workload by removing need for manual dish edits after every stock receipt.
4.3. Automated triggers allow instant supplier orders, minimizing downtime and maximizing menu uptime.
4.4. Improves data-driven decisions with automated analytics on popular/out-of-stock items.
4.5. Automation enhances customer experience with transparent, live-updating menus and special alerts.