Operations & InventoryPurpose
1. Automate the synchronization between inventory stock levels and the digital menu to ensure out-of-stock items are instantly hidden or marked as unavailable, reducing manual errors, enabling automated real-time updates, and enhancing guest satisfaction.
2. Automate alerts or notifications to staff and management when menu items become out-of-stock.
3. Allow seamless integration with POS, inventory, and menu display systems for automated cross-platform data accuracy.
4. Automates compliance with customer expectations for menu accuracy, avoiding guest frustration from unavailable items.
5. Facilitate automated data analytics on frequently out-of-stock items for demand forecasting and automated restocking.
Trigger Conditions
1. Automated detection when item stock falls to zero in inventory software.
2. Automated manual override by kitchen or management, marking items 86’d or unavailable.
3. Scheduled or automated POS synchronization runs.
4. API webhook from ordering platform indicating an out-of-stock event.
5. Receipt of automated inventory threshold alert triggering menu update automations.
Platform Variants
1. Square POS
- Feature/Setting: Inventory Webhooks and Catalog API — automate out-of-stock triggers to the digital menu via custom webhook configuration.
2. Toast POS
- Feature/Setting: Inventory Management API — automate disabling menu items with PATCH /menu_items/{id}.
3. Clover
- Feature/Setting: Inventory API and Order API — automatedly monitor inventory and update menu status programmatically.
4. Shopify POS
- Feature/Setting: Inventory Level API — automate pulling item levels and updating menu visibility through GraphQL mutations.
5. Lightspeed
- Feature/Setting: Inventory Change Webhooks, Product API — automate menu changes via PATCH requests when stock=0.
6. Upserve
- Feature/Setting: Menu Availability Sync API — automated menu status updates when 86’d in POS.
7. Breadcrumb POS
- Feature/Setting: Item Availability API — configure automations to remove unavailable items on digital menus.
8. Revel Systems
- Feature/Setting: Product API — automate PATCH to item status via scheduled automating triggers.
9. TouchBistro
- Feature/Setting: Item Status Push API — automate menu updates with PUSH /inventory.
10. Fresh KDS
- Feature/Setting: Integrations Webhook — automate menu status updates from kitchen display events.
11. Ordermark
- Feature/Setting: Out-of-Stock API — automate removes of items across marketplaces with POST /item-availability.
12. Otter
- Feature/Setting: MenuSync API — automate with stock level webhooks to instantly sync menu status.
13. Chowly
- Feature/Setting: Inventory Sync API — automates menu updates across third-party channels.
14. BentoBox
- Feature/Setting: Digital Menu Management — automate item “Sold Out” toggles via their API.
15. GloriaFood
- Feature/Setting: Item Availability API — automated toggling for unavailable items in online menus.
16. Popmenu
- Feature/Setting: Menu Integration API — automate inventory-based menu updates.
17. SquareSpace Scheduling
- Feature/Setting: API Item Visibility — automate menu page updates when triggered by inventory status.
18. Wix Restaurants
- Feature/Setting: API-driven Menu Control — set up automations for hiding unavailable dishes.
19. OpenTable
- Feature/Setting: API-connected Menus — automate flagging of items unavailable for online ordering.
20. Google My Business
- Feature/Setting: Menu Items API — automatedly adjust visible items based on POS triggers.
Benefits
1. Eliminates manual steps, automating menu accuracy and guest communication.
2. Reduces errors and guest dissatisfaction from ordering out-of-stock items through end-to-end automation.
3. Automates operational efficiency, enabling staff to focus on service.
4. Enables automated multi-channel inventory-menu synchronization for digital, web, and in-venue displays.
5. Streamlines workflow with automator-driven integrations, supporting effective inventory management automations and actionable analytics.