Stock disappears without a trace
When nobody knows how much paneer or oil a day’s sales should have used, wastage and pilferage go unnoticed.
Inventory & recipe costing
Know where every kilo of paneer went
HostAir deducts ingredients from stock automatically as dishes sell, using your recipes. Track purchases, wastage and physical counts, and see your food cost per dish — included in every paid plan.
What goes wrong without it
Food cost is a guess
Menu prices set without knowing the real cost of each dish quietly eat your margin.
Purchases and supplier bills don’t match
Without purchase orders and goods receipts, you pay for what was billed, not what arrived.
Outlets and the central kitchen don’t add up
Stock sent from a central kitchen to outlets is hard to follow on WhatsApp messages and registers.
How it works in HostAir
Set up recipes once
For each dish, list its ingredients and quantities — in grams, kilos, millilitres or pieces. Unit conversions are handled for you.
Stock deducts as items sell
When an order is billed, HostAir deducts the recipe’s ingredients from stock automatically, using the oldest-expiry batch first.
Receive what you ordered
Raise purchase orders to suppliers and record goods receipts with batch and expiry — or record a direct purchase.
Log wastage and count stock
Record wastage and adjustments with approval, and run physical counts to see the variance between expected and actual stock.
Read the food cost
See cost of goods per menu item, stock valuation, wastage analysis and reorder suggestions in your reports.
What you get
- Ingredients with units and conversions
- Versioned recipes with automatic stock deduction on sale
- Suppliers, purchase orders and goods receipts with batch and expiry
- Wastage, stock adjustments with approval and physical counts
- Stock transfers between outlets and a central kitchen
- Food cost per dish, stock valuation, wastage and reorder reports
- Included in both Restaurant and Stay + Dine plans
Not available yet
- Inventory screens in the mobile app (inventory runs in the web console)
Plans that include this
Restaurant
₹10,000 per outlet, per year
For cafés and restaurants: orders, kitchen and billing.
Stay + Dine
₹15,000 per outlet, per year
For hotels and guesthouses with a restaurant.
Frequently asked questions
- How does automatic stock deduction work?
- You add a recipe for each dish. When the dish is sold and billed, HostAir subtracts those ingredient quantities from your stock, using the batch closest to expiry first.
- Can I buy in kilos and use in grams?
- Yes. Set up units and conversions once — buy oil by the litre or paneer by the kilo, and recipes can use millilitres and grams.
- How do I find out where stock is going missing?
- Run a physical count. HostAir shows the variance between what your sales and wastage say you should have and what is actually on the shelf.
- Does it work with a central kitchen?
- Yes. A central kitchen can send stock to your outlets with transfers that are created, approved, dispatched and received in HostAir.
- Is inventory an extra charge?
- No. Inventory is included in both paid plans — Restaurant and Stay + Dine.
Free visit
Book a free visit to your outlet
Our team in Jodhpur, Jaipur and Udaipur will show you HostAir at your outlet and set it up on go-live day, at no setup cost. 24×7 support on WhatsApp, phone and email.