# MarketMan review (2026): is it worth $249 a month? > Inventory, ordering and recipe costing for restaurants Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. MarketMan is a cloud inventory and purchasing system built for restaurants and food businesses. It handles stock counts and transfers, recipe costing, waste tracking, supplier ordering and invoice scanning, and it connects to point-of-sale systems and accounting software. It runs in the cloud on Windows and Mac computers and on iOS and Android devices. - **Category:** Inventory Management - **Made by:** MarketMan - **Website:** https://www.marketman.com - **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android - **Who should skip it:** Pricey if you run one small site, as the cheapest plan is $249 a month. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, MarketMan is a paid product, starting at $249 per month (billing basis not stated). - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Starter | $249 per month, billing basis not stated | Recipe costing, actual vs theoretical reporting, waste management, 1 vendor EDI integration and 50 AI invoice scans a month. | | Growth | $299 per month, billing basis not stated | Adds smart ordering, order by recipe, AI recipe suggestions, 2 vendor EDI integrations and unlimited invoice scanning. | | Enterprise | $449 per month and up, billing basis not stated | Adds email invoice scanning, advanced reports, unlimited vendor EDI integrations and read-only API access with 5,000 calls a month. | Read from https://www.marketman.com/pricing-for-restaurant-inventory-management-system on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with MarketMan before buying. ## Key features - **Counts and transfers:** Counts on-hand inventory and tracks movement between locations on every plan. - **Recipe costing:** Costs each dish in real time and tracks changes over time; a digital cookbook holds recipes and allergens. - **Invoice scanning:** Reads invoices from a photo or upload: 50 scans a month on Starter and unlimited on Growth and Enterprise. - **Ordering and vendor EDI:** Smart ordering and order by recipe on Growth and above, with vendor EDI integrations limited to the US, Canada and UK. - **POS and accounting links:** Sends POS sales to MarketMan for actual vs theoretical variance and syncs invoices with accounting software. ## Good for - Independent restaurants tracking food cost and waste - Multi-location groups that need counts, transfers and recipe costing - Central kitchens that supply their own units or outside customers ## Worth knowing - The pricing page does not state a billing basis or whether prices are per location. - API access is Enterprise only, or a paid add-on on other plans: $25 a month for 1 to 3 locations, up to $199 for 31 or more. - A commissary add-on costs $499 a month for a kitchen supplying your own units, or $749 a month for one selling to outside businesses. - Vendor EDI integrations work in the US, Canada and the UK only. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. MarketMan handles counts, recipe costing, invoice scanning and vendor ordering for restaurants, from $249 a month. The page does not say if that is per location, and API access and vendor links are limited. - **Value for money: C.** $249 a month for Starter, between the category's middle of $135 and its dearer quarter at $349. The page does not state a billing basis or whether it is per location. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan and no trial on record in the listing, and a money-back guarantee would not count as one. - **Features: C.** Counts, recipe costing, invoice scanning, ordering and POS and accounting links. Vendor EDI works only in the US, Canada and the UK, and API access is Enterprise or a paid add-on. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. Recipes, vendors and counts have to be entered first. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iOS and Android, with Square, Toast, Lightspeed, Clover, Sysco and US Foods listed. No desktop app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from MarketMan's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among inventory management tools - MarketMan's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 7 of the 47 other inventory management tools we grade, and level with 10. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 6 of 47) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $249 a month, against a middle price of $121.50 for the category: 21 of the 31 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 7 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/inventory ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** The plain part of MarketMan you could make: inventory and reports. What surrounds it you could not. The 2 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 30 of the 47 other inventory management tools grade higher. It costs $2,988 a year. - You could make: Inventory and reports: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Square, Toast and Lightspeed among them, and has an API. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Square, Toast, Lightspeed, Clover, Sysco, US Foods, Gordon Food Service **Tags:** Inventory, Reports, Public API ## Alternatives - [Sortly](https://toolgpa.com/tools/sortly): Phone-first inventory app for tracking equipment, tools and supplies. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/marketman-vs-sortly) - [inFlow](https://toolgpa.com/tools/inflow): Inventory, orders and barcoding for wholesalers and small warehouses. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/inflow-vs-marketman) - [StockTake Online](https://toolgpa.com/tools/stocktake-online): Restaurant stock control, ordering and recipe costing. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/marketman-vs-stocktake-online) - [Zoho Inventory](https://toolgpa.com/tools/zoho-inventory): Online inventory and order management from Zoho, with a free plan. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/marketman-vs-zoho-inventory) - [Megaventory](https://toolgpa.com/tools/megaventory): Cloud inventory, order and light manufacturing management. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/marketman-vs-megaventory) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.marketman.com/pricing-for-restaurant-inventory-management-system Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/marketman Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).