About Drift
Cost control should happen during the week — not after month-end.
Drift is hospitality software built to close the gap between weekly operations and monthly accounts. Most operators do not spot supplier price increases, missing dockets, or stock issues until the accountant finishes the figures. By then, the bad week is already four weeks old.
We built Drift to move that visibility forward. So managers and owners can act in the moment — not after the damage is done.
The problem
Month-end is too late to fix margin.
Hospitality margins are made and lost in daily decisions: a supplier price that jumped overnight, a delivery that did not match the docket, a line item that has been creeping up for three weeks without anyone noticing.
The traditional setup — invoices in a folder, a manager on the phone, an accountant closing the books four weeks later — means these signals are invisible until it is too late to do anything about them.
By the time the accounts close, the bad week is already history. Decisions become reactive, not preventative. And smaller outlets — the ones without a full-time finance team — feel this hardest.
What we change
Live alerts. Weekly summaries. Month-end exports.
Drift reads every invoice and supplier docket as it arrives — by email, WhatsApp, or upload — and extracts the line items, units, and prices automatically. It compares each item against what you paid last time, and flags anything that moves outside tolerance.
The right person gets the right signal at the right time. A manager gets a live alert when milk jumps 18%. An owner gets a clean weekly summary every Monday at 7am. An accountant gets a month-end pack — PDF, CSV, and Xero-ready — in one click.
Drift is not another dashboard company. We give you live cost control — and we get out of the way the rest of the time.
Managers
Get alerted the moment a supplier price or invoice moves outside tolerance.
Owners
Receive a weekly summary every Monday with spend, variance, and what to ask about.
Accountants
Export month-end packs in one click — PDF, CSV, and Xero-ready.
Who we serve
Built for operators, not analysts.
Drift is designed for cafés, restaurants, bars, and hotels — especially the smaller and mid-sized outlets that do not have day-to-day finance support. The ones where the owner is also the GM, or the manager is also the one checking deliveries.
We work directly with hospitality teams: general managers who need to know if a supplier price changed before they place the next order; owners who want a weekly snapshot without logging into another tool; accountants who need clean, consolidated data at month-end without chasing invoices across WhatsApp threads and email folders.
Cafés
Coffee, dairy, and supplier drift
Restaurants
Food cost and menu margin
Bars
Beverage and stock control
Hotels
Multi-site F&B rollup
Why it matters
Because hospitality runs on weekly margins and monthly accounts.
That gap — between what happens on Tuesday and what the accountant sees four weeks later — is where margin disappears. A supplier price rises 12% on a core ingredient. A delivery is short. A line item has been creeping up for three orders. None of this shows up in a dashboard. It shows up in a P&L, too late.
Drift collapses that gap to days — sometimes minutes. We believe the people running a venue deserve the same visibility into cost that they already have into revenue. Your POS tells you how much you sold by 11pm. Drift tells you how much that cost you by 11:05am.
"We built Drift because we kept seeing the same story: great operators, tight teams, and cost problems that only surfaced after the month closed. That delay is expensive — and it is avoidable."
Book a demo
See your next month-end before it happens.
15 minutes. We will walk through Drift on a venue like yours and show you exactly what your managers, owners, and accountants would see this week.