Not an Altametrics Alternative: Keep It, Add Voice Ordering

Same Back Office, Plus Voice

Your Altametrics plan, as it is.
Plus the distributor order, spoken.

If one supplier you still call is what started your search, that call is the part that changes. Ticks for counts, suggested orders and receiving apply on Altametrics plans that include them. Spoken orders reach only distributors on our app.

Feature

Altametrics + VoiceOrder Solutions

Altametrics on its own

Sales forecasts, staff schedules and payroll

Order supplies by voice, checking each line

Not listed on their site

Order amounts suggested from pars, forecasts or AI

Ordering from your phone, whatever plan you are on

Advanced plan, or its Zip Ordering app

Inventory counts and food cost variance

Items and account prices loaded by the distributor

Distributors that run our app

Item catalogs from distributors that connect to it

Receiving, credits and invoice review

Cash office, food safety checklists and reports

Mobile apps for iPhone and Android

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Why People Look

Reasons to check an Altametrics competitor

Altametrics' own site calls suggested ordering "one part of the overall operating picture," beside labor, accounting and reports. If that part is why you are weighing an alternative to Altametrics, here is where ordering can fall short.

Ordering sits in the top plan

On Altametrics' pricing page, inventory and "Ordering and Receiving" are listed in the Advanced plan. If your plan covers shifts, payroll and cash, your food order may still be a call to the rep.

Its ordering app fills a cart

Altametrics' ordering app, Zip Ordering, says "Eliminate Calling In Your Orders" and lets you add local vendors. There, you run through order guides, type in quantities and check out. Our app has you speak those lines instead, for a distributor that carries it.

Your brand may have picked it

Altametrics says it runs single restaurants and scales to large franchises, and its customer stories come mostly from franchisees and chains. If head office chose it, an Altametrics alternative may not be yours to choose. Changing how one distributor gets your order, where your brand allows it, is a smaller step.

What You Get

Voice orders to your distributor, with no Altametrics alternative

Voice Ordering

Speak it first, then look it over

Open the app by the walk-in and say what that distributor should bring. Each item shows up as a line from the guide set up for your account. Change an amount or remove a line, and send once it reads right.

Nothing goes out until you tap send

Order late at night, after close, or before the rep is in

Saves 20 to 30 minutes compared with the same order by phone

Pulled onto the line midway? The order waits, saved

Placing an order by voice

Their Guide, Your Prices

Your distributor loads the items and the prices

The distributor puts the products you buy from them into your guide, at the prices they charge your account and under their item codes, and updates it from their side.

Only what you usually buy from them

Prices set for your account

No list for your team to type up

You keep the same rep

Buying from more than one supplier

Proof Of The Order

What you sent, with its own number and time

Each order sent in the app gets a number, a date and a time stamp, and a confirmation lands on your phone. If the truck arrives short, you can point to what was ordered instead of what you remember saying on a call.

Shows the minute it went out

Confirmed by notification or text

Handy when you check in the delivery

Calls and voicemails get no number from us

What each supplier confirmed

Still In Altametrics

Labor, cash and food safety carry on in Altametrics

Altametrics keeps the jobs it does for you today, from the time clock to the daily report. Counts and suggested amounts, where your plan has them, stay there too.

Time clock and payroll as before

Food safety checks untouched

Cash office and deposits unchanged

Forecasts keep guiding prep

Ordering the same way on every shift

Side By Side

Using both, within your plan and your brand's rules

This is not an Altametrics replacement. Altametrics plans the shifts, the prep and, on its ordering plan, the amounts to buy. VoiceOrder Solutions does one thing: the order to a distributor set up on our app, which you say aloud and look over before sending.

A short delivery? Quote your order number

Orders spoken in our app are never created in Altametrics, so its receiving and credit tracking will not have them. If the truck comes up short, raise it with your distributor and quote the number on your confirmation. If you track credits in Altametrics, enter that credit there by hand.

Begin where your plan has no ordering

If you run Altametrics for labor and cash only, begin with whichever supplier still takes your order over the phone; no Altametrics alternative is needed for that. If a distributor already gets your orders through Zip Ordering or Altametrics, use one place only for that distributor, so the same cases never come twice.

Brand rules come first

If your brand requires Altametrics for ordering, or approved distributors only, follow that. Check with head office before you move any supplier's ordering to our app.

See the order a distributor gets after you say it

We open a practice guide, say a few items, fix one line, and show the copy that lands with the distributor. It takes about 20 minutes.

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FAQ

Common questions from Altametrics users

Would I need an Altametrics alternative to start speaking my orders?

No. Where one of your distributors has our app, you can order from them by voice on your phone, and use Altametrics for the rest, its ordering included if your plan has it. This is about supplies you buy, not orders from your guests.

Is VoiceOrder Solutions better than Altametrics?

Not at what Altametrics does. We run no schedules, payroll, counts, forecasts or food cost reports. You read your order into our app for a distributor that has it, and go over every item before it is sent. If your plan leaves out ordering and phoning the rep is why you looked for an Altametrics alternative, that call is what our app replaces.

Do VoiceOrder Solutions and Altametrics connect?

No. These are two products from two companies, each with its own help desk, and no data moves from one to the other. Orders you speak in our app reach only your distributor, and Altametrics does not see them.

My Altametrics plan has no ordering. Does this add it?

Not inside Altametrics. Our app carries orders to the distributors who use it, and that is all: it does not count stock, suggest amounts or receive deliveries. Altametrics lists those, with ordering, in its Advanced plan, and it also offers Zip Ordering, a separate app. If you want those inside Altametrics, ask Altametrics about them.

I run a franchise location. Can I order this way?

Yes, with a distributor using our app, as long as your brand lets you order from that distributor yourself. Where the brand insists on Altametrics or approved suppliers only, do it their way. Suppliers without our app get your orders just as they do now.

What if I say one thing and the screen shows another?

Before sending, fix it on the review screen: choose the correct item, change the number, or remove the line. That review is the safeguard, and a hurried glance can still let a mistake slip by. Orders made by phone or left on voicemail get no order number from us; only orders sent in the app do.

How do I get set up, and what does it cost?

The distributor opens an account for you and loads your guide, and most kitchens get an order in on that same day. Until that distributor has it, go on ordering from them as you do today, and reach out to us: we will connect you with the right person. Cost is something to ask that distributor, since our app comes to you from them; we publish no price. Altametrics shows prices for its entry plans and quotes the larger ones.

Where do the Altametrics details on this page come from?

From altametrics.com and zipordering.com as we read them on 9 November 2026: the Altametrics homepage, pricing, inventory, back office and forecasting pages, and the Zip Ordering homepage. We found voice alerts on their time clock, but no ordering from suppliers by voice. We did not repeat their location counts or savings figures here. If any of it is out of date, write to us and we will correct it.

Not An Altametrics Alternative: When Ordering Isn't Included

is when most kitchens send a first order, once the distributor adds them

saved per order, compared with reading it to a rep over the phone

to get an order in between the closing shift and the opening one

Your Altametrics plan, as it is.
Plus the distributor order, spoken.

Feature

Altametrics + VoiceOrder Solutions

Altametrics on its own