Orderzy Inventory vs Petpooja Inventory
An honest side-by-side.
What each system asks you to set up, what each one measures, and what each one costs. Facts, no sales spin.
30-second take
Petpooja Inventory is a full recipe-driven system. You set up a bill of materials for every dish, ingredients auto-deduct on every paid order, and the system tries to keep a running gram-by-gram picture of your stock. When set up fully it produces very detailed reports. Setting it up fully is real work.
Orderzy Inventory is a spend and count system. You log each vendor invoice as it arrives (30 seconds), or upload a week at a time from Excel or CSV. Count roughly twenty items every Sunday (10 minutes). Read the gap between the two on a mobile dashboard. It does not tell you exactly how much paneer is in the fridge to the gram. It does tell you where your money is going week over week, which is the question owners actually ask.
If your restaurant runs on tight per-plate margins and you have someone who will maintain a BOM for every dish, a recipe-driven tool is a serious option. If you want a working picture of food cost in week one without a data-entry hire, Orderzy Inventory fits.
Side by side
| Petpooja Inventory | Orderzy Inventory | |
|---|---|---|
| Setup time | Hours to days (recipe entry per dish) | About 5 minutes (cuisine picker seeds watch items) |
| Data entry | Invoice image + OCR parsing (paid add-on) | Type category and total, or upload an Excel or CSV sheet with a week of invoices at once |
| Weekly count | Recipe-driven auto-count from POS, optional physical count | Guided 10-minute walk-around through about 20 watch items |
| Auto-deduct on paid orders | Yes (requires full BOM) | No, by design (avoids payment-path risk) |
| Menu-hide on ingredient zero | Yes (requires full BOM) | No, by design |
| Recipe / BOM required | Yes, for most reports | No, optional one-dish opt-in (Layer 2) |
| Report focus | Dish-level COGS, stock ledger, wastage | Category spend, food cost percent, weekly digest |
| Kitchen tablet UX | Form-heavy, POS-linked | Walk-order, numeric keypad only |
| Owner mobile UX | Web plus separate manager app | One mobile dashboard, opens in the browser |
| POS integration required | Yes (Petpooja POS) | No (works alongside Orderzy POS or standalone) |
| Category spike alerts | Yes (via BOM math) | Yes (via 4-week category average, no BOM needed) |
| Payment-path risk | Writes on order-paid events | Structurally decoupled from order flow |
| Price | Charged per module (contact for quote) | Free, included with Orderzy |
Comparison last updated 2026-09-13. If a Petpooja detail here is out of date, please write in.
Where Orderzy Inventory is the right choice
- You want a working food-cost number this Sunday, not next month.
- You do not have staff or bandwidth to enter and maintain BOMs for 80 or more dishes.
- You want a system that will never accidentally hide a dish because a BOM went out of date.
- You want inventory bundled free with your order platform, no separate module fee.
- You want zero risk of an inventory bug ever touching the payment path.
- You already use Orderzy for orders and want the same login to cover food cost.
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