For the independent cafe owner
Your Square knows what sold. Parly knows what to order.
Parly connects to your Square, counts what you used, and turns it into a ready-to-send supplier order. No guesswork.
No credit card. Cancel anytime. See how it works
- Under 10 min
- Our manager's recent count: 58 items, from his phone
- Counts, not P&L
- What your team sees when they log in
- ~15 min
- From morning count to a ready order
Good morning
Gross Sales
$2,847
Net Sales
$2,691
Transactions
184
Avg Ticket
$15.47
Tips
$342
Discounts
$156
Sales by Hour
Ethiopian beans usage up 18% this week. Current burn rate: 1.2 bags/day.
Oat milk projected to run out Friday. Consider adding 2 cases to your next order.
Peak hour shifted from 11 AM to 10 AM. Matcha Latte drove 34% of morning revenue.
Your dashboard the morning after your POS connects.
The switch
From three tabs and a guess to one count and an order.
You already do the count. Parly turns it into the order you would have spent the afternoon piecing together.
Staying put
The spreadsheet, the group chat, and the last-minute order scramble.
- A spreadsheet that does not know your recipes, so it cannot tell you what you actually used.
- The supplier app that never loads when you finally have a free minute to order.
- The 6am scramble when you open and the last case of oat milk is already half empty.
- Someone texts the group chat that oat milk is low, and nobody orders it. One missed Odeko order is a weekend without oat milk.
With Parly
One count becomes what sold, what you used, and what to order.
- Count your stockroom from your phone in about 15 minutes, by category. Anyone on shift can run it.
- Parly reads your sales and recipes. 47 Iced Matcha sold becomes 94g matcha, 564 oz oat milk, 47 cups used.
- You get a supplier order grouped by cutoff, already filled in. Odeko closes at 10:50, and you make it.
- Nothing slips. You know what sold, what you used, and what to order before the deadline.
Why I built it
I built Parly behind the bar at my own NYC specialty coffee cafe, because counting 60 SKUs three times a week on a Google Sheet was eating our mornings.
Six months in, our manager runs every count, usually from his phone, and his last two timed counts both came in under 10 minutes. I did not set out to build software. I set out to get my mornings back.
Mark, founder of Parly
Ask me anything: mark@getparly.com. I answer personally.
- Under 10 min
- A recent full count: 58 items, entirely from his phone.
- 60 SKUs
- Counted Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, from a phone instead of a sheet.
- 26 straight
- Counts our manager has run himself these past three months. Not one was mine.
Built for cafes like yours
How it works
Your count to a supplier order, in three steps.
Connect your POS
Connect Square in one click. Your sales, menu, and labor sync on their own. No setup spreadsheet, no manual entry to start.
Count your stockroom
Walk your storage room with your phone. Tap through items by category, enter quantities, and submit. About 15 minutes, and anyone on your team can run it.
Send the order Parly builds
Parly reads your count against what sold, works out what you used, and hands you a supplier order grouped by cutoff. You confirm and send.
Features
Count stock in about 15 minutes. Know what to order before you run out.
- Walk your stockroom with your phone. Tap quantities by category. Done.
- Parly maps sales to recipes and works out exactly what you burned through.
- Order suggestions grouped by supplier, and par levels checked against real usage.
- A recent full count by our manager: 58 items in under 10 minutes, from his phone.
Items Tracked
58
Below Par
4
Critical
2
Inventory Health
Oat Milk runs out Friday
6 remaining, 12 needed. Add 2 cases to Dairy Wagon order.
Supplier cutoff in 2h 15m
3 items need ordering before 10:50 AM
Modifier accuracy
A latte is not one recipe.
Oat or whole. Iced or hot. Extra shot. Every modifier changes what leaves your shelves, and most inventory tools lose the thread the moment a drink gets customized. Parly maps every Square modifier to real ingredients, so your usage numbers match what your team actually poured.
- Oat milk instead of whole? Parly deducts oat milk, not whole.
- Iced instead of hot? The cup, the lid, and the recipe all change.
- Extra shot? The beans come out of your count too.
From your Square sales
47 x Iced Matcha Latteoat milk
- matcha94 g
- oat milk564 oz
- cups, lids, and straws47
Swap the milk, add a shot, or make it hot and the deductions change with it. No thousand-variation recipe setup.
Roles and permissions
Your team counts. Your numbers stay yours.
Handing staff the count should not mean handing them your P&L. Everyone gets exactly the access their job needs, and you decide the rest.
Team member
Counts, tasks, and today's schedule from their phone.
No revenue, margins, or wages.
Manager
Recipes, ordering, suppliers, and tasks.
Reports and wages stay owner-only unless you grant them.
Owner
Everything, plus a permission matrix to decide who sees what.
Parly Assistant
Stop digging through reports. Just ask.
Parly Assistant answers questions about your own sales, inventory, labor, and forecasts in plain language, straight from your Square data. No report building, no spreadsheets, no guesswork.
- Answers grounded in your real numbers, not generic AI guesses.
- Sales, inventory, labor, costs, pastries, and forecasts, all in one place.
- Read-only and private. It reports; it never changes your data or places orders.
Included on Pro and Business plans.
Assistant
Ask about your sales, inventory, and forecasts.
Built inside a working cafe. Tested every morning before open.
Try everything in Pro free for 14 days.
A single missed supplier order costs $150+ in emergency runs and markup. A single over-order ties up $200+ in cash sitting on a shelf. Parly pays for itself before the end of your first month.
Pro
Everything one cafe needs, in one place.
That's $2.63/day. 14-day free trial.
Your data exports in one click.
- Unlimited inventory items
- Full count history + audit trail
- Forecasts what you will run out of, and when
- Order suggestions by supplier, sized from real usage
- Parly Assistant: ask questions about your own sales, inventory, and labor
- Recipe database with cost per drink
- Full POS sync (sales, catalog, labor)
- 30+ reports, analytics, PDF + CSV export
- Revenue projections + weekly P&L outlook
- Staffing planner with shift suggestions
- Labor analytics + cost tracking
- Task system with automation
- Parly Insights: plain-language recommendations on costs, staffing, and stock
- Order-deadline reminders + push notifications
- Up to 10 team members, 1 location
Business
Deeper analysis and a direct line to the founder.
14-day free trial.
Start free trialRun more than one cafe? Join the multi-location waitlist
- Everything in Pro
- Assistant Deep Dive: deeper, more thorough analysis for complex questions
- Priority support: a direct line to the founder, fast answers
- Unlimited team members
- First in line for multi-location when it ships (waitlist)
Full access to every Pro feature during your trial. No credit card required. Have questions?
FAQ
Questions owners ask before signing up
Straight answers. No sales pitch.
Still wondering if it fits your shop? See it on your own numbers.
No credit card. Cancel anytime.Make tomorrow's count the last one you do on a spreadsheet.
Connect your POS, count your stockroom, and see your first order ready before the cutoff. It takes one morning.
Keep your Google Sheet running alongside Parly until you trust it. Your data exports in one click.
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