Not a Crunchtime Alternative: Keep It, Add Voice Ordering

Plus Your Local Supplier

A local supplier Crunchtime does not link to?
If they are on our app, skip the call and say what you need.

Speaking changes one thing: the order to a supplier with no electronic link, if that supplier has signed on with us. If you are weighing a Crunchtime alternative, the ticks for counts, forecasts, vendor links and receiving are Crunchtime's own.

Feature

Crunchtime + VoiceOrder Solutions

Crunchtime on its own

Say a distributor's order aloud, then review the lines

Not listed on their site

Spoken stock counts, through a Crunchtime add-on

Sales forecasts and recommended order amounts

Auto-orders on each vendor's order days

Products and prices on your account, loaded by the distributor

Local distributors on our app, plus linked vendors

For some linked vendors

Electronic links with distributors on its list

Receiving and invoice photos on your phone

A confirmation on your phone for each sent order

Yes, when you order in our app

Varies: some vendor links send a confirmation back

Commissary orders and transfers

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Why Operators Look

Why you might search for a Crunchtime alternative

Crunchtime connects to a distributor's system one vendor at a time, through a project its team sets up and tests. Sometimes a look at a Crunchtime competitor starts with one local supplier that has no such link.

Your supplier may not be on its list

Its list of linked vendors runs from national broadliners to regional bakeries and dairies. Any vendor can ask for a link, but a small local distributor may not have one yet.

Some vendors are set to phone orders

Without a link, Crunchtime can email the vendor a PO (purchase order). If that vendor is set up for phone orders instead, Crunchtime sends nothing, and someone has to get the order to the rep.

Its voice feature counts stock

Managers with Crunchtime's voice counting add-on can speak stock counts into the app, so nobody stops to type. Placing an order with a distributor is a separate task.

What You Get

What the app adds, with no Crunchtime replacement

Voice Ordering

Speak the order where you stand, then check it

In the walk-in, start the app and tell it what that distributor should bring. Each item shows up as a line from your guide, with the amount you said. Change an amount or remove a line, then send it when it looks right.

Nothing goes out until you send it

Order late at night, after close, when the rep is off

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

Pulled away halfway? It is saved where you stopped

How placing an order by voice works

Set Up On Their Side

Your distributor loads the guide, not you

The distributor sets up the products you buy from them, with their item codes and the prices you pay them, and can update the guide from their side. There is no list for you to keep. Some vendors linked to Crunchtime send guide files to it; this is for a distributor that does not.

Only the items you usually buy from them

At the prices set for your account

No vendor setup for your office to do

You still deal with the same rep

Buying from more than one supplier

Your Order Number

Every app order comes back with a number

In the app, every sent order carries a number, the date and the time, and a confirmation lands on your phone. If the truck shows up short, quote that number to your rep, instead of recalling what was said on a call.

The exact time you sent it

Confirmed by notification or text

Simple to hold up against what arrived

No number from us for calls or voicemails

What each supplier confirmed

Crunchtime's Side

Crunchtime keeps the rest of the job

Counts, forecasts, recommended orders, labor schedules and the other Crunchtime tools carry on as they are. On the day you order from the supplier with no link, Crunchtime's suggested amounts can be the list you read out.

Keep counting there as you do now

Receive deliveries and photograph invoices in its app

Linked vendors keep getting orders from Crunchtime

Labor, food safety and kitchen tools are untouched

Where ordering sits next to your stock counts

Keep Both

What to adjust in Crunchtime when you speak one vendor's order

Keeping both is not choosing a Crunchtime alternative: it hands one job to a second app. Vendor links, counting and sales forecasts stay with Crunchtime. The local supplier's order moves to our app, said on your phone and checked before it is sent.

Crunchtime will not see it as on order

An order you say in our app is not a Crunchtime vendor order. If Crunchtime's recommended amounts subtract what is already on order, they will not know about this delivery. Until it arrives, allow for it by hand when you read the next suggestion. When it comes in, record it in Crunchtime yourself, or get help from whoever set up your Crunchtime account.

Switch off auto-order for that distributor

If Crunchtime auto-orders from that distributor, auto-order has to be turned off for them before your first spoken order, so they get one order, not two. Ask whoever runs your Crunchtime setup, or do it yourself if that is you.

Begin with the vendor you already call

When Crunchtime's setup says to phone a vendor, it sends that vendor nothing, so getting that order to the distributor is already up to you. That order is the easiest one to move into our app, unless your brand wants it kept in Crunchtime.

Watch a walk-in order reach a distributor, in a short demo

In 20 minutes we use a made-up guide, speak three or four items, correct one wrong line, then open what reaches the distributor's inbox.

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FAQ

What Crunchtime users often ask

Do I need a Crunchtime alternative to order from my local distributor by voice?

No. Crunchtime keeps doing your counts and forecasts, and keeps ordering from the vendors it is linked with. If your distributor is on VoiceOrder Solutions, you can order from them by voice in our app, with no call to the rep. A small supplier may not have it yet: ask them, or contact us to find out.

Is VoiceOrder Solutions better than Crunchtime?

Not at what Crunchtime does: we run no counts, forecasts, labor schedules or kitchen screens. Our app is for ordering from a distributor who has signed up with us: you say what you need, then look over every item before it is sent. If one supplier with no Crunchtime link is why you went looking for a Crunchtime alternative, that is the order our app can take.

Do VoiceOrder Solutions and Crunchtime connect?

No. We answer questions about our app, Crunchtime answers questions about theirs, and neither team supports the other's product. Whatever you order with us goes only to your distributor; Crunchtime never gets a copy.

Is this the same as Crunchtime's voice counts?

No. Crunchtime's Voice-Based Inventory, an add-on for its Inventory app, lets you count aloud: say an item and an amount. Our app turns what you say into order lines, then sends them to the distributor who gave you the app. You can use both: Crunchtime for the count, our app for the order.

Can I order commissary items or transfers this way?

No. Both stay in Crunchtime. We handle orders to distributors that use VoiceOrder Solutions, nothing else.

I said two cases and the app shows six. What now?

Nothing has gone yet, so fix it on the review screen: change the amount, swap the item or delete the line. That review is the safeguard, and a hurried look can still miss a mistake. A call or a voicemail gets no number from us; only app orders do.

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

Through your distributor: they set up your account with your order guide, and most kitchens place a first order in the app that same day. If they do not have it, your orders to them stay as they are today. Contact us and we will connect you with the right person. VoiceOrder Solutions comes to you from your distributor, so cost is a question for them; we publish no price. Crunchtime's own site does not list its prices.

Where do the Crunchtime details on this page come from?

From crunchtime.com and its public support center, as we read them on 9 November 2026: product pages, vendor setup guides and mobile app notes. On that date we found nothing there about saying an order to a distributor. We have left their customer numbers and savings figures off this page. If you find a detail that is now wrong, email us and we will correct it.

Not A Crunchtime Alternative: For Your Local Distributor

saved on each order you would have phoned to the rep

is when most kitchens can start ordering, once their distributor adds them

to send it, even after the distributor's office has closed

A local supplier Crunchtime does not link to?
If they are on our app, skip the call and say what you need.

Feature

Crunchtime + VoiceOrder Solutions

Crunchtime on its own