How it works

From sales history to a smarter order.

See the real sample workspace turn sales signals into a practical order guide.

Forecast

A real sample workspace showing forecast, order guide, and purchase signals together.

Chef preparing a restaurant order from fresh produce

Built around the order day you already have.

Connect what you use.

CSV sales history works for any POS; a supported POS can sync catalog items when enabled.

Review your next order cycle.

See demand signals before your next purchasing decision.

Order with context.

Use recommended quantities and plain-language reasoning to make the final call.

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Under the hood

Three layers, each with a specific job.

Open each layer for a plain-English explanation. Forecast availability and automatic refresh timing depend on plan.

01Statistical baseline

Finds each item's normal trend and seasonal pattern.

StockSense reads each product's monthly sales history. With enough history, Holt-Winters tracks both trend and repeating seasonal changes. With less history, a simpler Holt model avoids pretending it knows a seasonal pattern yet. An outlier check smooths an unusual spike against nearby months before it can distort the forecast.

02Reliability-tuned safety stock

Adds a bigger buffer when an item's history is less predictable.

StockSense tests past forecasts against what sold next. Stable items get a tighter safety-stock buffer. Volatile items get more protection and a shorter trustworthy forecast window. Confidence labels show which numbers have strong history behind them.

03Weather & event context

Lets paid accounts account for a known local demand change.

When this paid feature runs, StockSense checks available local weather and event data and applies a limited adjustment to the statistical forecast. A heat wave can raise expected cold-drink demand, for example, but it cannot erase months of sales history. Automatic nightly Pro and beta refreshes reuse the latest context already available to the account; they do not promise a brand-new live web search every night.

Feature guide

What each feature actually does.

Open any item to see its job and exactly where it lives in StockSense. Paid features are labeled.

Forecasting & ordering

6-month rolling forecast

Shows expected monthly demand for each product. It recalculates when new sales data is added.

Find it in: Forecasts
Automatic outlier correction

Stops one unusual sales spike or drop from pulling the next six months too far in the same direction.

Find it in: Forecasts
Reliability-based safety stock

Uses past forecast accuracy and sales volatility to choose a smaller or larger reorder buffer for each product.

Find it in: Forecasts and Order Guide
Reorder list

Turns the forecast into a quantity to buy, estimated cost, and a short reason for each recommendation, sized to your order cycle.

Find it in: Order Guide
Priority flags

Labels items High, Normal, or Low so urgent purchases rise to the top of the list.

Find it in: Order Guide
Printable reorder sheet · paid plans

Opens a clean supplier checklist with quantity and estimated cost, ready to print or save as a PDF.

Find it in: Order Guide → Print checklist
Actuals vs. forecast tracking

Lets you enter what actually sold, compare it with the forecast, and feed recent misses back into future forecasts.

Find it in: Report

Ingredient intelligence · paid plans

Recipe mapping

Connects a menu product to each raw ingredient and records how much one serving uses.

Find it in: Order Guide → Ingredient forecasts
Suggested recipes

Drafts a practical ingredient list for a menu item. You review and edit it before anything is saved.

Find it in: Order Guide → Ingredient forecasts
Live ingredient rollup

Multiplies each product forecast by its recipe so you see total raw-ingredient demand without spreadsheet math.

Find it in: Order Guide → Ingredient forecasts

Insights · paid plans

Per-product insight

Explains in plain language why a product's reorder number changed. It uses that product's sales and forecast data, then streams the explanation on demand.

Find it in: Order Guide → Insight
Business health score

Combines your sales, pricing, cost, and margin data into a score with specific strengths, risks, and next actions.

Find it in: Insights → Business health
Competitor pricing analysis

Searches public web results for nearby restaurants, then compares their visible menu and price information with your own data.

Find it in: Insights → Competitors

Integrations & data

POS catalog sync · paid plans

Connect a supported POS when enabled for your account to sync catalog items. Upload historical sales with CSV to forecast.

Find it in: Import → Connect POS
CSV import

Uploads a CSV export from any POS. StockSense lets you map the columns before it saves the data.

Find it in: Import → Upload CSV
Nightly refresh · Pro and beta

Rebuilds forecasts automatically at 03:00 UTC for active Pro and beta accounts. Other accounts recalculate when a forecast is requested after their data changes.

Find it in: Runs automatically; results appear in Forecasts
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