POS, online ordering, inventory, menus, staff, events and permits — in a single system built for mobile food vendors, not borrowed from restaurant software.
A truck is not a small restaurant. There is no back office, no desktop, and no spare hand. The software has to work at the window, on a phone, while a line is forming — and it has to cover every job the business runs on.
Ring up walk-ups and take cards through Stripe or Square — the processor you already use, with the money landing where it always has. Keep your Square reader, or use Tap to Pay on iPhone and carry no hardware at all.
Customers scan the QR at your window or tap your link on social, order from their phone, and pay ahead. Orders land on your dashboard instantly. No 15–30% delivery-app commission — the order is yours.
Track ingredients by unit and cost with par levels for each one. Counts draw down as orders ring through the register, and you get a low-stock alert before service instead of running out mid-rush.
Build the menu once and push it to your site, the ordering page and the register at the same time. Per-item cost and margin show you which best-seller is quietly losing money.
Schedule staff, track hours, and keep a shared truck chat so the person opening tomorrow knows what happened today. Roles limit what each person can see and change.
Festivals, breweries and private caterings tracked from enquiry to deposit to booked date, with a lead board of events near you that are actively looking for trucks.
Photograph a permit and it is filed, dated and set to remind you before it expires. If an inspector shows up when the owner is not on the truck, whoever is working can pull up every document.
Daily sales, best and worst hours, top items, and profit after food cost. Enough to answer "was that event worth doing?" without exporting anything to a spreadsheet.
Most trucks assemble this from separate tools that do not talk to each other. Here is what the stack usually looks like, and what it costs.
| What you need | The usual way | Typical cost | Food Truck OS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Website & hosting | Website builder + designer | ~$23/mo | Included |
| Online ordering | Delivery app | 15–30% per order | Included, 0% commission |
| POS & card payments | Standalone POS | ~$59/mo + hardware | Included, use your Stripe/Square |
| Inventory management | Spreadsheet | Free, and always wrong | Included, updates as you sell |
| Event & gig leads | Facebook groups | ~$15/mo | Included |
| Permit tracking | Folder in the glovebox | — | Included, with expiry reminders |
| Sales reporting | Export and rebuild monthly | Your evenings | Included, live |
Plans are $9, $19 and $49 a month, flat. See what is in each plan →
The design constraints come from a real truck — Food Truck OS is built alongside Kicking2Cones, a working Oklahoma truck running on the platform.
Installs to your home screen on iPhone and Android, no app store download. Buttons are sized for someone wearing gloves in a hurry, not for a mouse.
Today's location and hours update from your phone in seconds and push to your site, your schedule and your ordering link at once — one link that is always right.
Pages are light enough to load on one bar at a festival. Nothing here needs a laptop, an office, or an afternoon of setup.
One system that handles the jobs a mobile food business runs on: taking and recording sales (POS), letting customers order ahead, tracking inventory and food cost, scheduling staff, booking events and catering, and keeping licenses current. The difference from restaurant software is that a truck moves, has no back office, and is usually run from a phone at the window.
Not usually. Food Truck OS connects to Stripe or Square, so card payments run through the processor you already use while orders, inventory and reporting stay in one place. Keep an existing Square reader for walk-up cards, or use Tap to Pay on iPhone with no hardware at all.
You count what is on the truck, not in a warehouse. Set a par level for each ingredient, and counts draw down automatically as orders ring through the POS. When something drops below par you get an alert before service, so the restock happens at the commissary instead of mid-rush.
Yes. Food Truck OS installs to the home screen on both and runs like a native app — no app store download, nothing to update. It is designed to be used standing up, between customers.
$9/mo for a single truck, $19 for the plan that adds card payments, inventory and analytics, and $199 for multi-truck operators. Every plan includes a free 14-day trial, and there is no per-order commission.
That is the usual reason owners switch. Sales, inventory counts, event bookings, staff hours and permit expiry dates live in one place instead of four spreadsheets and a glovebox folder — and the numbers update themselves as you sell.
Open a real working dashboard — no signup, nothing to enter.
Try the live demoOr start your free 14-day trial — live the same day.