Food truck management software that runs the whole truck: your own website and ordering link, Tap to Pay on your iPhone, weather alerts and local event bookings, plus the register, team, and licenses. Live the same day, no tech skills needed.
One system instead of six subscriptions — see the full food truck management software breakdown, including POS, inventory and permits.
A branded site in minutes, built from your menu.
Customers order & pay from any phone, plus QR-to-pay at the window.
Helps build your site, write your menu, and market your truck.
Orders, register, menu, inventory, team, schedule, profit & licenses — one dashboard.
Snap a photo of any permit — AI files it and schedules the renewal. Inspector at the window? Show one QR: permits + your GPS-stamped commissary log.
Invite staff with roles, clock in/out, split tips by hours, post the shift schedule — and talk on the team board, per truck.
New orders read themselves out loud — name and items, Spanish orders in a Spanish voice. "Mark ready" calls the customer up out loud — and emails them too, once you've connected your email.
Events & gigs board, truck directory, followers, one-tap "we're here" posts, and a calendar customers can sync to their phone.
After each order, customers get a quick "how was it?" — comments come privately to you, and everyone's offered your Google review link.
Real-time weather alerts for wherever your truck is parked. Rain and storm warnings so you can move, tarp up, or call the day early — plus heat advisories that keep you on top of food-safety temps.
Customers tap their card or phone right on your iPhone or iPad. Or connect the Square or Stripe account you already have and keep your reader. Zero hardware to buy.
Your phone is the card reader. The customer taps their card, Apple Pay, or Google Pay right on the back of your device and the sale is done — contactless, encrypted, no dongle, no Bluetooth pairing, nothing to charge overnight.
Already on Square? Keep it. Connect in one click — online orders and QR-to-pay charge through your own Square account, so money lands exactly where it always has. Your reader keeps working for walk-ups, and every sale flows into your dashboard and profit reports.
Prefer Stripe? Connect it the same way and take cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay on your ordering site. Payouts go straight to your bank on your schedule — we never sit between you and your money.
Tape one QR code to the truck. Customers scan, order and pay from their own phone while they're still in line — so your window moves people instead of taking orders one at a time.
Choose your cuisine — a starter menu loads automatically.
A branded site builds itself. Customize colors, logo & story.
Share your link or window QR and start selling.
Place an actual order on Rolling Ember BBQ's live site — same code a real customer uses. Watch it land on the owner dashboard next to it: a cha-ching, your name spoken out loud, and a "mark ready" button that sends a real notification back to the customer side. Nothing here is staged — it's the same platform every truck runs on.
Or skip watching a stranger's truck — get your own, right now, nothing to enter.
Open my own live demo →Festivals, farmers markets, fairs and community events happening near you — pulled in automatically and sorted by date and distance, so you stop hearing about the good ones a week too late.
Take catering and event requests through your site, approve them in a tap, and keep every gig on one calendar your whole crew can see — and that customers can subscribe to on their own phones.
Park, hit one button, and your location goes live everywhere at once — your site, your directory listing, and a push to every follower you have. No typing an address, no posting to five apps.
Every listing, event page and "we're here" post carries a live map and one-tap directions, so a hungry customer three blocks away is actually walking toward you instead of guessing.
Real-time conditions and forecasts for the exact spot you'll be parked. Storm and rain warnings give you time to plan the day, and heat advisories flag the shifts where food-safety temps need watching.
Rolling into a new town? Look up what that specific city and county actually require — mobile vendor permit, health card, fire inspection, commissary letter — before you burn a Saturday finding out at the curb.
See published inspection scores and know how your truck reads to the public. Keep your record and your permit vault in the same place you already run the day.
Log cooler, hot-hold and cook temps from your phone with a time and GPS stamp on every entry. When an inspector asks for the log, it's one screen — not a clipboard nobody can find.
The native iOS app is in review with Apple. In the meantime you don't have to wait for it — Food Truck OS installs straight to your home screen on iPhone and Android and runs like any other app, no download required. Everything on this page already works from your phone.
Pick your cuisine and a branded food truck website with your menu builds itself in minutes. Customize colors, logo, and your story — no web designer or tech skills needed, and it can be live the same day.
Customers scan a QR code at your window or tap your link on social media, order from their phone, and pay online or at pickup. Orders appear instantly on your dashboard, so lines move faster and you never miss a sale.
Food Truck OS works with the payment processors you already use — connect Stripe or Square (or both) and take card payments online plus QR-to-pay at the window. No extra hardware to buy.
No — keep your Square. Connect it in one click and your online orders and QR-to-pay charge through your own Square account (money lands where it always has), your Square reader keeps working for walk-up cards, and every sale shows up in your dashboard and profit reports. Don't have a reader? Use Tap to Pay on iPhone instead — customers tap their card right on your phone, no hardware at all.
Most trucks need a business license, food service permit, mobile vendor permit, and a fire inspection — and every city is different. Food Truck OS includes a license & permit vault so your documents are organized and ready if you're ever spot-inspected, even when the owner isn't on the truck.
Plans start at $9/month flat — Starter is $9, Pro is $19, and Franchise (multi-truck) is $49. Website, online ordering, Tap to Pay, weather alerts, and event bookings are all included, with no web-designer bills and no 15–30% delivery-app commissions eating your margin. Every plan starts with a free 14-day trial and no credit card is required to begin.
Yes — that's Tap to Pay on iPhone and iPad. Your phone is the reader. The customer taps their card, Apple Pay, or Google Pay right on the back of your device and the sale is done: contactless, encrypted, nothing to buy, nothing to pair, nothing to charge overnight. If you'd rather use a reader you already own, connect your existing Square or Stripe account instead and keep it. Either way there's no hardware cost to start taking cards.
Yes. You get real-time weather alerts for wherever your truck is actually parked — not a generic city forecast. Rain and storm warnings come early enough to plan the day, move the truck, or call it before you prep food you can't sell. Heat advisories flag the days when cooler and hot-hold temps need extra watching, which pairs with the built-in temperature log for food-safety compliance.
Food Truck OS pulls in local festivals, farmers markets, fairs and community events near you, sorted by date and distance, so you stop hearing about the good ones a week too late. Take catering and event requests through your own site, approve them in a tap, and keep every gig on one calendar your crew can see and customers can subscribe to. Event-day weather and permit lookup for that city are right there too.
The native iOS app is in review with Apple — it's coming to the App Store soon. You don't have to wait for it, though: Food Truck OS installs directly to your home screen on iPhone and Android and runs like any other app, with no download. Orders, card payments, inventory, weather and today's location all work from your phone right now.
Ask every customer, automatically. When you mark an order done, the customer gets a quick "how was it?" email (English or Spanish, matching their order). Stars and comments come privately to you — never published — and every customer is then offered your Google review link. Asking everyone, not just happy customers, keeps you inside Google's review policies. Paste your review link into Settings once and it runs on its own.
Your site has a "Find Us" section and a "Where We'll Be" schedule you update from your phone in seconds. Share one link everywhere — it always shows today's location and menu.
Yes. Track ingredients and supplies by unit and cost, set par levels so you get a low-stock alert before you sell out mid-service, and see which menu items eat your margin. Because inventory is tied to the same system taking the orders, your counts move as you sell instead of living in a separate spreadsheet. See the full food truck management software breakdown.
Yes — Food Truck OS installs to your phone's home screen and runs like any other app, on iPhone and Android, with no app store download. Take orders, ring up cards, check inventory, and update today's location from the window. It's mobile food vendor software built to be used standing up, one-handed, between customers.
Food Truck OS is built by Stronghold / Dr. Hines Inc., including for Kicking2Cones, a real Tulsa, OK food truck running on the platform — features get built against an actual truck's day, not a spec sheet. Don't take our word for it: place a real order above and see for yourself.
Join Food Truck OS and get your website + online ordering today.