TiLedger vs restaurant platforms
POS tools (Square, Epos Now, Lightspeed) sell you a till. Costing tools (Jelly, MarketMan, Apicbase) sell you a spreadsheet replacement. TiLedger is the ledger a restaurant actually closes the day on — POS, costing, inventory, and finance on one spine — priced from £0.
Where TiLedger sits vs the field
| Category | Typical vendors | Gap TiLedger closes |
|---|---|---|
| POS-first | Square, Epos Now, Lightspeed, Toast, Tevalis, Posimos | POS never writes into a real costing/finance ledger |
| Costing / BOH-only | Jelly, MarketMan, Apicbase, Fourth recipe/menu engineering | Costing sits beside a separate POS and accounts system |
| Online ordering | Toast online ordering, Lightspeed order-ahead, Deliverect + WordPress | Menu/deals live twice — drift between site and till |
TiLedger's wedge: operators who hate channel price drift and dual databases — one ledger for POS, costing, inventory, finance, and a brand + order website, instead of stitching 3–4 point tools together with Zapier and a spreadsheet.
Six reasons operators choose TiLedger
01 · Cost integrity
True cost from the recipe up — raw materials → sub-recipes → menu items as a live bill of materials. Sales explode through the BOM into consumption, not a flat "COGS %" knob.
Competes with Apicbase, MarketMan, Jelly — wins when the buyer wants costing and POS/close on one spine.02 · Daily discipline
Daily closing, settlement, expenses, receivables, and payroll are a guided loop: open → sell → count → close → settle — not bolted-on reports.
Competes with spreadsheet close and Xero/QBO bolted on after the fact — books live in TiLedger.03 · Commerce sync
Web POS talks to ERP over API keys. Orders, payments, shifts, and channel rules land in the same stock and finance spine — counter, marketplace, or order website.
Competes with Epos Now, Lightspeed, Square, Toast — wins when the buyer hates channel price drift and dual databases.04 · v3.0.1 platform
Multi-tenant SaaS (tenants → branches), freemium plans, MFA, and brand + order websites — branch ops intact.
Wins when the buyer needs multi-tenant ops and restaurant depth in one product.05 · Role clarity
The app launcher shows the full product map; locked tiles stay frozen. Roles follow real module features, not vague admin/user switches.
Wins when training and compliance matter at multi-branch scale.06 · Customer surfaces
A marketing brand site plus a transactional order site — one storefront, fulfilment and stock stay branch-aware, included in Growth.
Competes with Toast online ordering, Deliverect + WordPress — wins when brand and order must share deals/menu cost with POS.How TiLedger compares
How is TiLedger different from Square or Epos Now?
Square and Epos Now are POS-first. TiLedger's Web POS writes directly into the same ERP ledger as costing, inventory, and finance — no parallel database, no channel price drift between counter and website.
How is TiLedger different from MarketMan or Apicbase?
MarketMan and Apicbase are back-of-house costing tools that sit beside a separate POS and accounting system. TiLedger unifies costing, POS, inventory, and the financial module on one spine.
Does TiLedger replace QuickBooks or Xero?
For day-to-day restaurant books, yes — daily closing, settlement, expenses, receivables, and payroll ship natively on Growth. See full pricing on the TiLedger pricing page.
Can TiLedger handle multi-branch operations?
Yes — TiLedger is a multi-tenant SaaS platform (tenants own many branches), with per-branch roles, warehousing, transfers, and each active branch billed on Growth or Enterprise.
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