Hello everyone. I am really excited to tell you about RestaPro, a new and totally free extension that is open-source, which means it is available under the GPL-3.0 license and it is designed to bring professional ERP features directly into your TastyIgniter dashboard. If you own a restaurant or kitchen you know that keeping track of ingredient costs and calculating the exact food costs for your menu and monitoring stock levels is just as important as taking orders from your customers. That is why I built RestaPro for people like you who use TastyIgniter. Key Features RestaPro has a lot of features including Recipe and Food Cost Management, which allows you to create detailed recipes that map ingredients and sub-recipes and RestaPro automatically calculates the real-time Actual Food Cost percentage based on your current ingredient prices compared to the menu selling price of RestaPro. Dynamic Inventory Engine, which automatically updates stock levels and you can manually adjust stock register waste or sync it automatically and every movement is tracked with logs in RestaPro. Low Stock Alerts and Dashboard Widget, which never lets you run out of ingredients and you can set a minimum stock for each item and get immediate visual alerts on the custom RestaPro Dashboard widget when items fall below the threshold in RestaPro. Purchase Orders and Suppliers which allows you to manage your suppliers and create Purchase Orders and when an order is marked as Received, the stock levels and the average or last costs of the ingredients are automatically updated in real-time in RestaPro. Precision, which is designed for the world and it supports 3 decimals for quantities, such as 0.125 kg and 4 decimals for costs ensuring your calculations are perfectly accurate down to the pinch of salt in RestaPro. . Repository The RestaPro extension is source and you can find the full code, installation guide and documentation on GitHub at the following GitHub Repository: Paolorox/ti-ext-restapro . You can simply install RestaPro by downloading the release and extracting it into your extensions//restapro directory then running the migration command for RestaPro. Feedback & Contributions This is the v1.0.0 release of RestaPro. I would really love to hear your feedback about RestaPro. If you find RestaPro encounter any bugs or have ideas for new features, such as auto-depleting stock on TastyIgniter orders please open an issue or a PR on GitHub, for RestaPro.

Hey there. I am glad you like the extension far. I am actually working on an update to introduce these exact features. Here is how the extension works now: Returning stock. The extension deducts stock when an order is paid. If the order gets cancelled later the stock does not go back into the inventory. You have to adjust it.. The backend logic is already set up for this. In an update I will introduce an auto-return feature. This feature will put the stock back soon as an order is marked as “Cancelled” or “Refunded”. Adding Waste. I built the waste tracking logic into the core engine already. I just have not added the “Add Waste” button to the user interface yet. In the updates I do plan to add a simple button on the ingredients page. You can use this button to log expired items or kitchen mistakes. This way you can keep your stock history clean. Replacements as a new order. If you enter a replacement as a brand order the extension will deduct those ingredients a second time. If you are doing this now you have to manually adjust the stock back.. Once I roll out the auto-return feature it will solve this problem. Canceling or refunding the order will put the stock back. Then punching in the replacement order will deduct it again. This way your inventory math will be accurate, without any headaches. Stay tuned for the updates of the extension. I am working on these features. The extension will be better soon and also get a lot more 🙂

RestaPro - Advanced Food Cost & Inventory Management

Paolorox

Hello everyone.

I am really excited to tell you about RestaPro, a new and totally free extension that is open-source, which means it is available under the GPL-3.0 license and it is designed to bring professional ERP features directly into your TastyIgniter dashboard.

If you own a restaurant or kitchen you know that keeping track of ingredient costs and calculating the exact food costs for your menu and monitoring stock levels is just as important as taking orders from your customers. That is why I built RestaPro for people like you who use TastyIgniter.

Key Features

RestaPro has a lot of features including

Recipe and Food Cost Management, which allows you to create detailed recipes that map ingredients and sub-recipes and RestaPro automatically calculates the real-time Actual Food Cost percentage based on your current ingredient prices compared to the menu selling price of RestaPro.
Dynamic Inventory Engine, which automatically updates stock levels and you can manually adjust stock register waste or sync it automatically and every movement is tracked with logs in RestaPro.
Low Stock Alerts and Dashboard Widget, which never lets you run out of ingredients and you can set a minimum stock for each item and get immediate visual alerts on the custom RestaPro Dashboard widget when items fall below the threshold in RestaPro.
Purchase Orders and Suppliers which allows you to manage your suppliers and create Purchase Orders and when an order is marked as Received, the stock levels and the average or last costs of the ingredients are automatically updated in real-time in RestaPro.
Precision, which is designed for the world and it supports 3 decimals for quantities, such as 0.125 kg and 4 decimals for costs ensuring your calculations are perfectly accurate down to the pinch of salt in RestaPro.

. Repository

The RestaPro extension is source and you can find the full code, installation guide and documentation on GitHub at the following GitHub Repository: Paolorox/ti-ext-restapro.

You can simply install RestaPro by downloading the release and extracting it into your extensions//restapro directory then running the migration command for RestaPro.

Feedback & Contributions

This is the v1.0.0 release of RestaPro. I would really love to hear your feedback about RestaPro. If you find RestaPro encounter any bugs or have ideas for new features, such as auto-depleting stock on TastyIgniter orders please open an issue or a PR on GitHub, for RestaPro.

user932713

It looks good, really nice work.
What happens if the order gets cancelled? will the stock return? how to add the waste? also the return items or replacement as it’s new order?

Paolorox

Hey there.
I am glad you like the extension far.
I am actually working on an update to introduce these exact features.

Here is how the extension works now:

Returning stock. The extension deducts stock when an order is paid. If the order gets cancelled later the stock does not go back into the inventory. You have to adjust it.. The backend logic is already set up for this. In an update I will introduce an auto-return feature. This feature will put the stock back soon as an order is marked as “Cancelled” or “Refunded”.
Adding Waste. I built the waste tracking logic into the core engine already. I just have not added the “Add Waste” button to the user interface yet. In the updates I do plan to add a simple button on the ingredients page. You can use this button to log expired items or kitchen mistakes. This way you can keep your stock history clean.
Replacements as a new order. If you enter a replacement as a brand order the extension will deduct those ingredients a second time. If you are doing this now you have to manually adjust the stock back.. Once I roll out the auto-return feature it will solve this problem. Canceling or refunding the order will put the stock back. Then punching in the replacement order will deduct it again. This way your inventory math will be accurate, without any headaches.

Stay tuned for the updates of the extension. I am working on these features. The extension will be better soon and also get a lot more 🙂

user932713

That sounds really good, and i like your point about log expired items. If you can have expiry date added to the items, that would be amazing to alert a few days before so you can make a discount before it turns bad.
Looking forward to see the update.

Paolorox

Oh thanks.
If you go check on my testing site you’ll see some modifications already going on that i’m working on 🙂

Demo url: https://tasty.paolorox.it/admin
Email: test@paolorox.it
Password: Demo123!

user932713

Ok looks good, did you thought of integrating it with the current Inventory?
I can see that you merge and organizing the tabs so if I may suggest something to make it easy to use for the current user.
1-You should have settings in the settings area where you restapro settings in tabs instate of side menu.
2-production could go under Resturant or you can leave it ( optional to have switch in the setting to place it in Resturant or out).
3-production should have dashboard suppliers stock movements.
4-stock movements better to be connected to inventory ( the current one).
5-inside restaurant/menu items/
There is on top near new drop down you can add there the overview for ingredients ( but rename it as there is one already) and recipes.
6-what location the inventory belong too? Do you need to add location?
7- is there an overview for all locations?
8-what can you integrate in the menu items so when you open to add one item you can set everything related too.
9-What about out of stock I don’t see it.
10- great that you make export that is something missing can you add import as well? Or even better to scan invoice and add items.
11- I couldn’t see the automation will send order automatic to the supplier or to you to reorder?
I know it’s a lot of things but just I open more questions it could help all of us.
And looking forward to test it live 🙂

Paolorox

Thank you so much for the detailed feedback and the great suggestions!!

I really appreciate you taking the time to dive deep into my extensions 🙂

Here are my thoughts and updates regarding your points:

1, 2 & 3 Menu Organization & Settings: Based on recent feedback, I have already restructured the navigation in the latest development version. The menu is now neatly divided into two main sections: RestaPro Production (which includes the Dashboard, Suppliers, Ingredients, Recipes, and Stock Movements) and RestaPro Settings (Categories, Units). While placing it under the core “Restaurant” menu is an option, RestaPro is designed to act as a fully-fledged ERP module, so keeping it as a dedicated top-level section helps maintain a clean UI without cluttering the core TastyIgniter menus.
Maybe i can include a drap and drop feature to let user decide where to place 😃

4 & 5 Core Inventory & Menu Items Integration: RestaPro is actually built to act as an advanced layer on top of your menu… You can already link a RestaPro Recipe directly to a core TastyIgniter Menu Item. This allows the system to automatically compare your real-time ingredient costs against the Menu Item’s selling price to give you a live Actual Food Cost margin!

6 & 7 Multi-Location Support: Currently, the inventory engine operates globally across the restaurant. However, true multi-location inventory routing (tracking stock per physical location) is definitely on the roadmap for a future major release. It requires a significant database structural update, but it’s a priority on my end,.

8 Menu Item Integrations: As mentioned, this is already active! When you build a Recipe in RestaPro, you assign it to a Menu Item. The margin analysis widget instantly shows if your food cost percentage is healthy or if you are losing margin based on the current selling price.

9 Out of Stock / Low Stock: I have just rolled out a major update to the RestaPro Dashboard. It now features an “Expiry Radar” and a detailed “Low Stock Alerts” table. It visually lists exactly which ingredients are running below their minimum threshold, complete with a quick action button to instantly restock them.

10 Import / Export & Invoice Scanning: I literally just pushed an update adding CSV Export buttons for both Ingredients and Stock Movements! CSV Importing is the logical next step and is currently in development. as for scanning invoices via OCR to automatically load items… that is a brilliant idea! It would likely require a third-party API integration, but I am adding it to the ideas board for a potential premium add-on.

11 Automated Supplier Reordering: Right now, Purchase Orders are generated manually when you see items hit the Low Stock threshold. Fully automated reordering (where the system automatically drafts and emails a PO to the supplier when stock is low) is a highly good feature and will be absolutely on the to-do list for upcoming versions but it needs to be enabled by the user itself and include major infos to work on…

Thanks again for all the suggestions. I am constantly pushing updates to the testing site, so keep an eye out for these new features going live soon 🙂

user932713

Again well done 🙂
Something you can think about:

Batch Expiration & Remaining Stock Calculation (FEFO Strategy)
The inventory system must track stock using the FEFO (First Expired, First Out) method rather than treating an ingredient as a single lump sum.

Granular Batch Tracking: Every individual Purchase Order (PO) must log its specific quantity and unique expiration date. Once a batch’s quantity reaches 0, its expiration date tracking is removed from the active loop.

Dynamic Expiration Visibility: The system needs to clearly show the restaurant owner which batch expires next, so they always know what must be used immediately.
The Scenario Matrix:

Example: A restaurant buys 2kg of meat today (expires in 4 days) and receives an additional 3kg of meat (expires tomorrow).

What date does the owner see? The dashboard must show tomorrow’s date as the critical “Next Expiration.”

End of Day Calculations: At the close of business, the system must show exactly how much stock survived expiration, allowing the owner to accurately create promotional offers for the following day to prevent food waste.

Shared Database Tables & Processing Yield Integration
The Purchase Order system and the Inventory system must share the same data tables to automate stock conversions cleanly, factoring in preparation waste.

Processing Yield (%): When raw stock arrives from a supplier, it must be multiplied by its preparation/usable yield percentage before entering the inventory.

Limiting-Factor Recipe Availability: The available stock of a menu item must be determined automatically by whichever ingredient runs out first.

The Scenario Matrix:

Example: A restaurant buys 7kg of meat and 20 burger buns. A burger recipe requires 250g of meat and 1 bun.

Meat Capacity: 7kg / 0.25kg = 28 possible burgers.

Bun Capacity: 20 possible burgers.

Resulting Inventory: If the Processing Yield is 100%, the system must show an inventory of 20 burgers (limited by the buns). If a single prerequisite component drops to 0, the menu item is automatically marked as Out of Stock.

Ingredient-Level “Critical Stock” Toggle Switches
Not all ingredients are critical to a dish’s availability. The system requires an item-by-item override to dictate stock behavior.

The Functionality: Every ingredient inside a recipe must feature an administration toggle switch: [ ] Critical / Hard Stop on Empty.

Behavioral Logic:

If Enabled (Critical): Running out of this ingredient immediately shifts the parent menu item to Out of Stock. (e.g., Running out of burger buns means you can no longer sell burgers).

If Disabled (Non-Critical): Running out of this ingredient allows the menu item to remain active on the front-end menu. (e.g., Running out of carrots or optional toppings will not halt the sale of the main burger).