Cooking the Books is your ultimate cloud-based solution for inventory management, invoicing, recipe creation, and rostering. It's designed with chefs in mind, offering a suite of tools to streamline kitchen operations and boost efficiency.

What Does it Do?

🌿 Ordering and Receiving Food: Simplify purchasing with digital invoicing and easy payment options. Schedule orders, bulk send with our Whiteboard feature, and save time with Predictive Ordering.

📦 Inventory Management: Keep track of your inventory effortlessly. Know what's in stock, what's ordered, and get accurate valuations – all at your fingertips.

🍽️ Food and Recipe Planning: Plan your menu like a pro. Our builder helps track measurements, costs, and nutritional info for each dish, ensuring consistency and savings.

💼 Restaurant Management: From food trucks to big restaurants, Cooking the Books platform fits all. Manage your operations with ease, anytime, anywhere.

🔥 Smart Decision-making Tools: Make savvy choices with menu engineering, live costed recipes, and real-time reporting.

💰 Money-saving Features: Digital ordering, inventory control, and complete stocktaking – all designed to save you money.

🙌 Comprehensive Recipe Cards: Keep your recipes consistent and accessible. Scale them up or down as needed and share them with your team effortlessly.

⏰ Real-time Data and Reporting: Access your data securely and remotely. Customize user access and process invoices with ease.

🍌 Extras: Enjoy our free Food and Recipe Costing Templates to crunch numbers and optimize your kitchen costs.

How Does it work with Impos

The process with Impos begins with the system generating a CSV file from a SQL script, set by default to a 24-hour period but adjustable as needed. This CSV file is then deposited into a local folder on the server, a configuration that can be customized to suit specific preferences.

Cooking the Books (CTB) retrieves this CSV file, where it undergoes analysis of product names and timestamps. This information is utilized to map sales by time, facilitating the management of CTB's inventory system. Once the initial setup for transferring the CSV file from Impos to CTB is completed, the integration operates on a daily basis without further intervention. Additionally, CTB utilizes POS location data to support the management of multiple stock locations and venues.

System Requirements

The partner solutions, including Impos, have certain system requirements to run smoothly. Specifically, they require version 4.26 and Windows 7 operating system. These specifications ensure compatibility and optimal performance of the software. It's important to meet these requirements to ensure that the software functions as intended and to avoid any technical issues or compatibility issues.

Engagement Process

Impos will offer core BETA customers free access to CTB, Other customers who would like a food costing and recipe solution should email Kiri Paterson on kiri@cookingthebooks.com.au and cc Alex.o@Impos.com.au.

We will attempt to offer a free period of usage for CTB every time a new client signs on with Impos, TBC

ACM is responsible for the upgrade, CPM will be responsible for the follow-up

 

 
Contacts Partner Regarding Impos Integration:

1. Partner sends email with customer details: Customer name, contact name, contact number, and email address.
2. CPM contacts ACM and relevant salesperson to coordinate integration.
3. ACM contacts the customer.
4. ACM arranges upgrade path with customer and tech.
5. Tech performs upgrade.
6. Tech tests upgrade.
7. Customer is contacted by CPM after one month to review system performance.

FAQs

What happens if the internet drops out during a CSV upload?

If the internet connectivity dropped before the csv file could begin uploading, the web service would continue to keep trying until a connection can be established, once re-established the upload will commence as per normal, and the file moved automatically into the processed folder when done.

 The only potential issue that may arise here would be if the connection dropped during the actual upload, the process is a very quick one so chances of this happening are rare, there are log files that sit within the CTBPOSIntegrator folder that track all activity for each day so this would be our first point of call to investigate. Just to re-iterate the actual upload does occur very quickly when the service is finally ready to suck through the data so chances of a drop during this are unlikely (it’s not something we typically encounter).

Some sales are not appearing in my CSV export: The Cooking the books exporter will only export items that have been paid for, so those that are unpaid will not appear in Cooking the Books.