Forecasting for independent restaurants
StocksSense turns a sales CSV export from any POS into next month's ingredient forecast. A supported POS can also sync catalog items when enabled for your account.
Example forecast
Sample dataOrder 52 lb less than usual.The usual order runs heavy here — a lot of this tends to spoil before it's used.
Example numbers for illustration — not your account's data.
Upload a CSV of past sales from any POS.
We turn it into next month's ingredient demand.
Get an order-cycle guide, ingredient by ingredient.
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Export sales history from your POS — any POS — as a CSV and drop it in below. We'll calculate a demand-trend preview right in your browser, from a lightweight trend calculation — not the full forecast engine. Your file is never uploaded.
See a demand-trend preview in seconds — no signup required.
Your file stays in your browser. It is never uploaded or saved anywhere — we only read it locally to build this preview.
Don't have a CSV handy? Download a sample →Common questions
Three months gives a usable forecast of level and direction. A full year is what unlocks seasonality, because a repeating annual pattern cannot be measured until the calendar has repeated once. Below three months, treat any projection as a placeholder.
A sales CSV export works from any POS, on any plan — that is the path most accounts use. Catalog sync with a supported POS is available when enabled for your account. If your system can export a sales report, StocksSense can read it.
Holt-Winters exponential smoothing on your own monthly sales history: it separates the current level, the trend, and each month's seasonal effect, then projects them forward. With less than a year of history it falls back to a simpler trend-only model rather than inventing a seasonal pattern. There is no LLM guessing at your numbers.
StocksSense does not publish measured customer results, and will not claim a figure it cannot evidence. The on-site ROI calculator is an illustrative model built from assumptions you can see and change — not an observed average. What the product does is order closer to expected demand than a flat average does; what that is worth depends on your menu and your prices.
No. The Free plan tracks up to 5 products, needs no card, and is never charged. Paid plans start with a trial — 7 days on weekly billing, 14 days on monthly or annual — and those do require a card and charge automatically when the trial ends unless you cancel first.
Anything that is not in your sales history: a road closure, a festival, a competitor opening, a menu change that renames an item, or the reason behind a slow month. Use the forecast as a well-informed default and override it with what you know and it does not.
Free plan · track 5 ingredients · no card needed