What 86’d can take over, and what stays where it is.
Organized by restaurant job. Each claim maps to a feature status we publish (Live, Beta or Planned). Vendor pricing is listed with a link to its source and the date we checked.
Pricing and features may change. Confirm current details with each provider. Last verified 2026-10-04.
86’d pricing
| 86’d plan | Published price | Billing basis | Highlights |
|---|---|---|---|
| Essential | $79 | Per location, per month. Annual billing: $790/yr. | Today, Manager Log & Shift Handoff · Tasks, opening/closing checklists · Maintenance, guest issues & incidents · BEO / large-party management |
| Operations Pro | $199 | Per location, per month. Annual billing: $1,990/yr. | Everything in Essential · Tip pools, tip-outs & employee statements · Inventory with barcode scanning · AI invoice capture (you review every line) |
| Group | $499 | Per month for 3 locations, then $149 per additional location per month. Annual billing: $4,990/yr. | Everything in Operations Pro · Multi-location ownership dashboard · Cross-location reporting & comparison · Location cloning & shared templates |
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By restaurant job
- Manager log, shift handoff and manager feed (Live)
- Tasks, recurring tasks and checklists (Live)
- Nightly close, tip pooling, tip-outs and employee tip statements (Live)
- Invoice capture with line-by-line review and a hard approval gate (Live)
- Inventory counts from the 86’d Inventory app, valuation, variance and recipe costing (Live)
- Weekly schedule building and publishing (Beta)
- Point of sale, orders and payment processing
- Time clock, payroll and HR administration
- General ledger, bill pay and bank reconciliation
- Labor-law compliance rules and forecasting
- Toast data connection is Planned, pending live verification; use POS CSV exports or manual entry today
- No direct accounting integration; reports export as CSV
- Labor hours come from imports or manual entry, not a time clock
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At a glance
| Vendor | Primary focus | Lowest published price | Where 86’d stops |
|---|---|---|---|
| MarginEdge | Back-office cost control: invoice processing, bill pay, inventory, recipe costing and food-cost reporting. | $350 — Per location, per month | 86’d doesn’t pay bills or sync to accounting; those stay in an accounting/AP system. |
| Restaurant365 | Restaurant accounting and back office: general ledger, AP, inventory & purchasing, workforce management, payroll & HR. | Contact vendor for pricing | 86’d keeps no general ledger and runs no payroll; those stay in an accounting and payroll system. |
| 7shifts | Scheduling, time clocking, labor compliance, team communication, with add-ons for payroll, tip management, tasks and a manager log book. | Free | 86’d has no time clock, payroll or labor-compliance engine; those stay in a time-and-payroll system. |
| Toast | Point of sale and payments, with add-on suites for online ordering, marketing, team management, payroll, invoices/inventory (xtraCHEF) and restaurant management. | Starting at $0/month | 86’d is not a POS and doesn’t process payments; it reads POS exports. |
Sources: MarginEdge · Restaurant365 · 7shifts · Toast. Checked 2026-10-04.
Detailed comparisons
86’d and MarginEdge
Back-office cost control: invoice processing, bill pay, inventory, recipe costing and food-cost reporting.
Read more86’d and Restaurant365
Restaurant accounting and back office: general ledger, AP, inventory & purchasing, workforce management, payroll & HR.
Read more86’d and 7shifts
Scheduling, time clocking, labor compliance, team communication, with add-ons for payroll, tip management, tasks and a manager log book.
Read more86’d and Toast
Point of sale and payments, with add-on suites for online ordering, marketing, team management, payroll, invoices/inventory (xtraCHEF) and restaurant management.
Read moreWhat 86’d brings to the stack
- Manager log, shift handoff, manager feed, tasks and checklists in one daily record.
- Four-step nightly close with tip-out previews to the cent and employee statements.
- Invoice capture you review line by line, with prices flowing to recipe costs.
- BEOs with deposits and revisions.
- Employee app with tip statements, report cards and correction requests.
- Ask 86’d answers scoped to each user’s permissions, citing periods and sources.
- Start with manual entry, uploads or scanned reports—no integration required.
86’d is not a POS, payroll or accounting system, and we don’t claim it saves a specific amount. The advantage is fewer handoffs: the shift record, tip-outs, costs and AI suggestions live in one place your managers already use. Browse the feature guides.
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