# MarginEdge restaurants: food cost reports without the export.

## MarginEdge automation at a glance

| Does MarginEdge have an API? | Yes. MarginEdge offers a read-only public API for invoices, products, vendors and categories. It sends data out but does not take changes in. |
|---|---|
| Connects with | Toast, Square, Google Sheets, QuickBooks, Excel, Slack |
| Used by | Restaurants, Bakeries, Coffee shops |
| What we build | Food cost view; Price watch; Data export; Partner sheet |

## Sound familiar?

What restaurants on MarginEdge tell us before a project starts.

*Two male chefs in aprons cook attentively in a contemporary open kitchen setting*

Photo: [cottonbro studio on Pexels](https://www.pexels.com/photo/man-in-white-dress-shirt-standing-beside-man-in-gray-vest-4253300/)

- Invoice totals are combined with sales by hand.
- Vendor price increases are noticed late.
- Food cost is worked out in a separate spreadsheet.
- Partners ask for numbers by email.
- Each location exports its own reports.

## What we build

Each one is a working piece you can open and check when it's done.

### Food cost view

Invoice spend by category next to sales from your POS.

[Dashboards and reporting](https://pushbuild.com/services/dashboards.html)

### Price watch

Product price changes flagged by vendor each week.

[n8n, Make and Zapier automation](https://pushbuild.com/services/workflow-automation.html)

### Data export

Invoices and products copied to sheets or a warehouse on a schedule.

[API integrations and data sync](https://pushbuild.com/services/api-integrations.html)

### Partner sheet

Weekly spend by category for each location.

[Google Sheets and Apps Script automation](https://pushbuild.com/services/google-apps-script.html)

**What we connect it to:** [Toast](https://pushbuild.com/tools/toast.html), [Square](https://pushbuild.com/tools/square.html), [Google Sheets](https://pushbuild.com/tools/google-sheets.html), [QuickBooks](https://pushbuild.com/tools/quickbooks.html), [Excel](https://pushbuild.com/tools/excel.html), [Slack](https://pushbuild.com/tools/slack.html).

**Industries that use it:** [Restaurants](https://pushbuild.com/for/restaurants.html), [Bakeries](https://pushbuild.com/for/bakeries.html), [Coffee shops](https://pushbuild.com/for/coffee-shops.html).

## Example projects

Illustrations of the shape of the work, not past clients. Yours gets its own written scope.

Example project

### Weekly food cost

Example: a restaurant owner sees spend by category against sales every Monday.

MarginEdge, Toast, Google Sheets

Example project

### Vendor price alert

Example: a chef gets a message when a supplier raises a price.

MarginEdge, Slack

Example project

### Partner update

Example: owners of two cafés share one weekly spend sheet.

MarginEdge, Google Sheets

Not sure where to start? [Start with an Automation Audit](https://pushbuild.com/audit.html).

## Questions people ask first

**Does MarginEdge have an API?**

Yes. MarginEdge offers a read-only public API for invoices, products, vendors and categories. It sends data out but does not take changes in.

**Will this replace MarginEdge?**

No. Invoices and inventory stay there. We build the reports around it.

**Is our data safe?**

Yes. We use only the access your account grants and keep credentials out of code.

## Related

[**Toast**Connect Toast sales, menus and labor data to your accounting, reports and ordering, with a written scope and no switch of POS..](https://pushbuild.com/tools/toast.html)[**QuickBooks**Sync QuickBooks Online with your CRM, job software, store and spreadsheets, and cut the manual entry and cleanup..](https://pushbuild.com/tools/quickbooks.html)[**Restaurant365**Sales, labor and cost reports around Restaurant365, built on the data access your account has, or on its exports..](https://pushbuild.com/tools/restaurant365.html)

## Tell us what you need built.

Email a few lines about what you want and which tools you use, or call. We reply with questions or a written scope.

[hello@pushbuild.com](mailto:hello@pushbuild.com?subject=MarginEdge%20project)

[(617) 299-8887](tel:+16172998887)

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As of 2026-11-10. Source: https://pushbuild.com/tools/marginedge.html