Dernière mise à jour : 10 sept. 2026, 12 h 26
Learn what Toast IQ Inventory tracks, who can use it, how stock and costs are calculated, and what is not yet supported.
| Toast IQ Inventory is currently in limited release with select customers. Check back soon for updates! |
Toast IQ Inventory is a real-time inventory platform built into Toast Web. It tracks the items your business stocks — retail goods, prepared food and beverage, ingredients, and supplies — and connects that stock to your sales, so your inventory levels and item costs update as you sell.
Because Toast IQ Inventory and Menu Manager read from the same underlying item data, you set an item up once. There is no mapping step between your menu and your inventory, and no second system to keep in sync.
Toast IQ Inventory runs in Toast Web. No additional hardware is required, though a barcode scanner and a label printer are supported if you want to scan items during a count or print your own labels.
Permissions needed:
Note: You do not need the Toast Retail module to use Toast IQ Inventory.
Toast IQ Inventory is available to select customers in a limited release. It is designed for restaurants, retailers, and food service operators, including businesses that run both retail and restaurant operations from the same location.
Every item you create in Toast IQ Inventory is one of four types: Retail, Prepared food and beverage, Ingredient, or Supply. Only prepared food and beverage items can have a recipe. Retail items are depleted directly when they sell, because they are sold as they are.
Toast IQ Inventory calculates how much of an item should be on hand. That figure starts from your most recent stock count, increases when you receive stock or make a manual adjustment, and decreases with sales, waste, and transfers out.
This calculated figure is theoretical — it is what the system expects, not what has been physically verified. A stock count is how you verify and correct it. When a count is approved, Toast IQ Inventory sets the on-hand quantity of every counted item to the quantity you physically counted, and all later calculations run from that new baseline.
A recipe links a menu item to the ingredients it consumes. When a menu item with a recipe sells, Toast IQ Inventory depletes each ingredient by the quantity the recipe specifies. Stock lives in the ingredients rather than in the finished menu item.
Depletion happens across every ordering channel — Toast POS, online ordering, kiosk, and catering & events — and inventory is decremented at the moment the order fires to the kitchen.
For items prepared in bulk ahead of service, such as sauces, stocks, and doughs, batch prep mode holds stock at the prepared item level instead. You record production, which consumes the ingredients and creates a quantity of the finished batch item.
Inventory cost for items you stock track is calculated on a first-in, first-out (FIFO) basis, so the earliest stock you received is consumed first, and the cost of goods is traceable down to each individual sale and the inventory lot it drew from. An item cost can be defined for items you do not stock track, so every sale returns a cost of goods, either way.
Plate cost is the total cost of all ingredients in a recipe at their current unit costs, and margin is calculated as the difference between the plate cost and the item's selling price. Ingredients do not have to be measured in the unit you purchase them in — Toast IQ Inventory converts between units, and stores the conversion on the ingredient so it applies everywhere that ingredient is used.
Toast IQ Inventory includes three reports that bring sales and inventory data together: Sales & COGS, Inventory Snapshot, and Inventory Roll Forward.
Toast IQ Inventory records who changed an item, when they changed it, and which surface the change came from, so you can trace an unexpected number back to the change that caused it.
These capabilities are not available in the current release:
Note: Allergen tags are available, but the allergen list itself cannot be customized. Allergen labeling is legally regulated, so the list is fixed and varies by country. Dietary tags allow you to flag common search attributes that are not regulated allergens (e.g., Vegan, Vegetarian)