lowboy
Book a walkthrough
Price watch

Every vendor price move, and what it costs you.

Price watch reads every invoice line and flags any food price that moved more than 5% since the last invoice, with the weekly dollar impact for that store.

Book a walkthrough
lowboy Vendor Prices screen with sample data: net cost impact of food price moves over 5% for the week, the count of increases and decreases, and the moves listed by item and vendor
Screen from the live app, shown with sample data. Every figure on this page is sample data.
A week of invoices

Five moves. One number that matters.

Nobody reads every line of every invoice. Price watch does, then adds up what the changes mean at the rate that store is using each item.

Harbor St · this week · moves over 5%
+$212a week, net
4went up
1went down
Item Vendor Last invoice This invoice Change A week
Fryer oil, 35 lb Dry goods vendor $41.20 $45.75 Up 11% +$84
Cod fillet, lb Seafood vendor $9.80 $10.45 Up 7% +$58
Lemons, 115 ct Produce vendor $38.00 $44.50 Up 17% +$52
Butter, 36 lb Dairy vendor $112.00 $121.00 Up 8% +$45
Heavy cream, case Dairy vendor $52.00 $48.50 Down 7% −$27
What it catches

The changes that hide in the paperwork.

01

Moves over 5%, up or down

Listed by item and vendor against the last invoice, with the dollar impact for the week.

02

Pack and unit changes

Lines where the pack or unit looks different land on a check list, so the comparison stays honest.

03

One item, every vendor

Each vendor's line is tied to one item in lowboy, so a lemon is the same lemon wherever you buy it.

04

Plates that drift over target

Recipe costs follow invoice prices, so when an ingredient climbs, the plate it goes on shows it.

On the rail
Rolling out

A price flag is a phone call someone has to make.

Every flag carries one button: Make it a task. It lands on that store's screen with a due date, and the flag shows who closed it and when.

See how lowboy gets money back
Price watchHarbor St
Fryer oil up 11% since the last invoice
+$84a week
Tasks · for the manager · due todayHarbor St
Ask the rep to match last month's oil price
Done Tuesday 2:14 PM. "Rep is matching it."
Where this started

One vendor. Months of overbilling.

While we were building lowboy, a line-by-line check of one vendor's invoices against the prices we had signed turned up months of overbilling. The vendor agreed to credit it back. Nobody on the team would have caught it by hand.

That check is now part of price watch.

Agreed-price check

Set the price you shook on. Any invoice line billed above it gets flagged.

Credit requests

The request is drafted for you with the invoice, the line and the difference, then tracked until it is credited or refused.

Recovered this month · Harbor St
$1,240received
Found$2,065
Asked for$2,065
Still open$825
Refused$0
A running total for every store. It leads with money received, the number nobody can argue with.

See what your invoices have been saying.

Thirty minutes with the operator who built it. Made for restaurant groups with 3 to 20 locations.

Book a walkthrough