InvSpot tracks every ingredient's price across every supplier and every location. Get alerted the moment prices drift. Walk into your next supplier conversation with the data they can't argue with, built for Hong Kong F&B operators.
A price-tracking and supplier-comparison engine for HK restaurant operators. Every ingredient, every supplier, every location, tracked and alerted automatically.
Your menu prices are fixed for months at a time. Your ingredient prices change every week. Without a system watching, the gap between them widens silently, and by the time you notice it in the P&L, you've already been bleeding for a quarter.
Three specific ways this happens, that most HK restaurants don't see until they're already paying for it:
A new supplier quote starts competitive. Six months in, prices have crept up 5%, 8%, then 12%, never enough to trigger a renegotiation conversation. Without month-over-month tracking, the operator doesn't notice. The supplier knows exactly how far they can push.
In a multi-location operation, supplier prices are usually negotiated locally, by different store managers, in different relationships, with different leverage. The same supplier might charge Branch A 12% more than Branch B for the same chicken SKU. Nobody compares; nobody notices. The chain pays the worst price across locations instead of the best.
Most restaurants discover price creep in the month-end food-cost review, when the year's accumulated cost spread shows up as compressed margin. By then, the renegotiation conversation has lost its anchor, you can't point to a specific moment the supplier raised prices, because nobody was watching.
The pattern is simple. The system does the watching so your team doesn't have to.
What InvSpot does: Every time an invoice is scanned via Invoice ScanInvSpot writes that line item into your ingredient price history. Every ingredient, every supplier, every location, the system builds the dataset automatically. No manual entry, no spreadsheets to maintain.
What you do: Set the ingredients you want to watch most closely. Most operators flag their top 20 by spend, the items that move the food-cost percentage the most.
20 ingredients · 6 suppliers · 12 weeks tracked
What InvSpot does: When any tracked ingredient's price drifts beyond the threshold (today: 5% above the trailing 30-day average), InvSpot alerts you, before your team pays the next invoice. The alert includes the trend context, so you can decide whether it's a supplier change, a market shift, or a one-off you can ignore.
Per-ingredient and per-category alert thresholds are coming Q3 2026, today's default of 5% above the trailing 30-day average applies uniformly to every tracked ingredient.
What you do: Review flagged items. Each alert takes seconds, you confirm "expected" (e.g., seasonal seafood premium), "investigate" (something unusual), or "escalate" (worth a supplier conversation).
What InvSpot does: InvSpot lets you compare prices two ways:
The most common discovery: your best location is already getting a price your other locations should be paying.
What you do: Use the comparison view to anchor your next renegotiation. The cheapest location's price becomes your target.
What InvSpot does: For any supplier conversation, InvSpot puts the price history with that supplier and the best prices across your locations on one screen. You see the supplier's invoiced prices to you over the last 12 months, side by side with what your cheapest location is paying for the same SKU, today.
A one-page exportable negotiation report (with an anonymized peer-benchmark line showing how the supplier's pricing compares to the InvSpot network) is coming Q3 2026. Today the underlying data is fully available, you just export the price history as a clean structured file.
What you do: Walk into the supplier conversation with the facts. Operators report that the supplier conversation goes faster, and usually ends with a better price, when the data is on the table from the start.
Once you know what every ingredient costs, see what every dish costs to make.
Recipe Cost Engine →Most cost tools track supplier reliability, "does this supplier deliver on time?", but stop short of the ingredient itself. InvSpot tracks the SKU you actually buy. When chicken thigh prices drift, you see it ingredient-by-ingredient, not aggregated into a vague "supplier performance score."
Most reporting tools tell you about price drift after the month closes. InvSpot tells you before the next invoice. The difference is the difference between renegotiating proactively and explaining a margin compression in the quarterly review.
For chain operators, the highest-leverage cost lever is usually finding the price spread across your own locations. InvSpot makes this comparison a single click, same SKU, same supplier, same week, every location's price side by side.
Soon, you'll be able to see how your supplier's pricing compares to the median across the InvSpot customer network for the same SKU, fully anonymized. Your supplier list, your volumes, and your specific prices stay private. Other customers see nothing about your data.
Roadmap · Q3 2026Ingredient Cost Intelligence is the second stage of your operational stack. It works with the modules upstream and downstream.
Feeds the data. Every invoice scan adds line items to your ingredient price history.
See invoice scanning →Uses your live ingredient prices to calculate actual food cost % per dish.
Calculate your recipe costs →Closes the loop with sales data, turning ingredient prices into per-dish margin in real time.
See POS integrations →Translates ingredient-cost insights into prioritized supplier renegotiation actions with quantified margin impact.
See profit engineering in action →Most supplier management tools focus on the supplier relationship, delivery reliability, order accuracy, contract compliance. Ingredient Cost Intelligence focuses on what you actually pay for each ingredient across every supplier you use. The two are complementary, but for cost-control purposes, ingredient-level depth matters more than supplier-level summary scores. InvSpot tracks the SKU you buy, not just the company you buy from.
Yes. Single-location operators benefit from price-drift alerts even without multi-location comparison. The multi-location features (Branch A vs Branch B comparison) become valuable when you operate 2+ locations sharing suppliers.
Anonymized peer benchmarking is on our Q3 2026 roadmap. Once live, you will be able to see how your supplier's price for a given SKU compares to the median across the InvSpot customer network, fully anonymized. Your supplier list, your volumes, and your specific prices remain private. Today the page focuses on the historical and multi-location comparisons you can do within your own data.
InvSpot tracks invoices, not estimates. Every price point in your history corresponds to a real invoice scanned via Invoice Scanauditable line by line. When you take a price history into a supplier conversation, the numbers you cite are the numbers they actually invoiced you. (A formatted one-page negotiation report export is coming Q3 2026; today you export the price history as a clean structured file.)
Today the default threshold is 5% above the trailing 30-day average, applied to every tracked ingredient. Per-ingredient and per-category custom thresholds are coming Q3 2026; high-volatility ingredients (fresh seafood) will warrant higher thresholds, commodity items (oil, rice) tighter ones.
Yes. The underlying invoice scanning supports 繁體中文, English, and mixed-language documents, so all the supplier names, ingredient names, and SKU references in your price history appear in the language they appeared on the original invoice.
Trend detection becomes reliable after 4-6 weeks of invoice data, depending on supplier delivery cadence. For high-frequency suppliers (daily fresh deliveries), useful patterns emerge within 2 weeks. Lower-frequency suppliers (weekly grocery) take longer.
InvSpot surfaces the data, not the decision. The price-comparison view will show you cheaper alternatives where they exist in your supplier network, but switching suppliers involves factors beyond price, quality, reliability, relationship, that you're better positioned to weigh than we are.
Included on all InvSpot plans. The Starter plan begins at HK$588/month and includes 100 invoice scans (which feed the ingredient price history); higher-volume plans scale included scans. See the full pricing page.
Yes. New customers get a 1-month free trial of InvSpot with full Ingredient Cost Intelligence access. No credit card required to start.
Wedding banquet venues quote ingredient costs to clients months in advance. Ingredient prices don't wait.
The GlassHall Group uses InvSpot Ingredient Cost Intelligence to see how each ingredient's price has moved between the moment they committed to a wedding and the moment they cook it, protecting their margin event by event.
Built in Hong Kong. Designed with HK F&B operators since 2025.
Most restaurants find out about supplier price creep three months too late. Watch InvSpot Ingredient Cost Intelligence catch the drift before the next invoice, in your actual operation, with your actual suppliers.
1-month free trial for new customers. No credit card required to start.