Best Restaurant AP Automation & Invoice Software (2026)

Restaurant365 is a cloud-based restaurant management platform that combines accounting, inventory and purchasing, workforce management, and payroll/HR in one system. It is built for full-service restaurants, multi-unit groups, and franchises that want to replace QuickBooks and disconnected back-office tools with a restaurant-specific ERP.

MarginEdge is an all-in-one restaurant back-office and AP-automation platform that digitizes invoices, pays bills, tracks real-time food cost and runs inventory and recipe analysis. It is built for independent and small multi-unit full-service restaurants that want to eliminate manual data entry and close their books faster.

Stampli is an AI-powered accounts-payable automation and procure-to-pay platform that centralizes invoice capture, coding, approvals, communication and payments. It serves businesses across industries-with a dedicated food & beverage practice and restaurant customers-that want to automate AP without replacing their accounting/ERP system.

Ottimate (formerly Plate IQ) is an AI-powered accounts-payable automation platform built first for restaurants and hospitality, handling invoice capture, GL coding, approval routing and payments via check, ACH or virtual card. It is aimed at multi-location operators and finance teams that want to automate AP and earn cashback on spend.

Yooz is a cloud-based purchase-to-pay and accounts-payable automation platform that uses AI, OCR and RPA to capture, code, approve and pay invoices. It serves organizations of all sizes—including restaurants and multi-unit operators—that want to automate AP and reduce manual invoice handling.

BILL (formerly Bill.com) is a financial-operations platform that automates accounts payable and receivable-capturing invoices, routing approvals and executing payments-plus spend and expense management. It is a widely used general AP/AR tool that restaurants and multi-unit operators adopt to digitize bill pay and vendor payments.

Back Office is a restaurant back-office and AP-automation platform from Buyers Edge Platform that unifies food-cost management, inventory, recipe costing, accounting, AP automation and payroll. It is powered by Buyers Edge Platform's purchasing data and aimed at multi-location and franchise restaurant operators.

Dext (formerly Receipt Bank) is bookkeeping-automation software that captures receipts, invoices and bank statements, extracts the data and syncs it to accounting systems. It is a general small-business and accountant tool used by restaurants and hospitality operators to digitize supplier invoices and feed their accounting and AP workflows.

xtraCHEF by Toast is restaurant AP-automation and food-cost software that digitizes vendor invoices with AI line-item capture and feeds cost, recipe and inventory data back to operators. It is aimed at restaurants—especially Toast POS users—that want to automate invoice processing and track food cost.