Track every cost, scan every invoice, and know exactly what you're spending — without spreadsheets or guesswork.
Built for restaurants, ghost kitchens, caterers, and bakeries of all sizes.
Ingredients
We spent years watching restaurant owners lose money because ingredient prices changed and nobody updated the recipes. ChefMargin fixes every step of that problem — from tracking ingredients to approving supplier price changes before they hit your numbers.
Simple to set up. Simple to use. No accountant required.
If you're still updating ingredient costs manually, you're losing time and money. ChefMargin does it from a receipt photo.
Sign up freeIngredient tracking
(Or not, it's up to you.)
Add every ingredient your kitchen uses — set the purchase price, quantity, unit, and preferred supplier. ChefMargin automatically calculates the cost per gram, per millilitre, or per each — and keeps that cost flowing into every recipe it appears in.
Track and order your ingredients in your storage areas to make them easier to count.
Ingredients
Receipt scanning
(Or not, it's up to you.)
Upload a supplier invoice photo — ChefMargin reads every line item, matches it to your ingredient list, and flags any price changes for review. No manual data entry. No missed price increases.
Receive raw material invoices directly to your suppliers in a way that makes total sense for your business.
Upload Supplier Receipt
Drop invoice image here
JPG, PNG, or WEBP · Max 20MB
Sysco Invoice — May 28.jpg
ScannedRecent Receipts
GFS Invoice — Jun 01
8 items
Local Bakery — May 30
3 items
Price review
(Or not, it's up to you.)
Every price change detected from a receipt sits in a review queue. You see the old price, the new price, and how many recipes are affected. Approve the ones that are correct, reject the ones that aren't, or correct the number before approving.
Select a formula 'Child' to Automatically Populate Ingredient Receiving.
Pending Price Updates
Review before applying to recipes
Chicken Breast
Sysco · 6 recipes affected
Mayonnaise
Sysco · 3 recipes affected
Heavy Cream
GFS · 4 recipes affected
Supplier price history
(Or not, it's up to you.)
ChefMargin keeps a full price history for every ingredient, for every supplier, forever. See when prices went up, compare across multiple suppliers, and switch preferred suppliers without losing your history.
Ingredient Price History
Jan price
$4.10/kg
Current price
$4.98/kg ↑ 21.5%
Compare Suppliers
Shopping lists
(Or not, it's up to you.)
Add recipes to a shopping list, set batch multipliers, and ChefMargin calculates exactly what you need to buy — by ingredient, by supplier, by quantity. Scale up for a large event or scale down for a quiet week.
Get exactly what raw materials you need based on your forecast or production plan.
Weekend Prep List
4 recipes · ×2 batch multiplier
ChefMargin already covers ingredient costs and supplier price tracking. True inventory — par levels, stock counts, and purchase orders — is coming next.
Set minimum stock levels for ingredients and get notified when you're running low.
Perform stock counts by category or storage area and reconcile against purchase orders.
Create purchase orders and send them directly to your suppliers by email or PDF.
Plan your purchasing needs based on recipe production plans and historical usage.
ChefMargin is one of the most practical, focused tools for tracking ingredient costs, recipe margins, and supplier prices in the food industry.
If you find a simpler tool that covers ingredients, recipes, receipt scanning, supplier price history, and pending price review — please let us know. We don't think it exists.