Not a MarketMan Alternative: Keep It, Add Voice Ordering

Both Columns Keep MarketMan

What MarketMan does, in both columns.
What ordering by voice adds.

Speaking the order, from the distributor's own guide, is what the combined column adds. If you came here weighing a MarketMan alternative, this shows what changes if you keep MarketMan instead. Every tick for counting, costing and approvals is MarketMan's own; spoken ordering works only with distributors on our app.

Feature

MarketMan + VoiceOrder Solutions

MarketMan on its own

Counts, pars and a suggested order

Say the order aloud, then check each line

Not listed on their site

Invoice scanning and food cost tracking

Items and prices kept current by the supplier

Linked suppliers and distributors on our app

For linked suppliers

Two-way links with some large distributors

Central kitchen and commissary ordering

Recipe and menu costing

A mobile app for iOS and Android

Approvals and transfers, on orders made in MarketMan

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Before You Compare

Why people search for an alternative to MarketMan

Sometimes the reason to check a MarketMan competitor has nothing to do with the counts or the costing. It starts with how one distributor takes its orders.

One supplier still wants a call

MarketMan sends purchase orders from the web or the mobile app. Some suppliers still work mainly by phone or through the rep, whatever your software sends.

Supplier links depend on the plan

Each MarketMan plan includes a set number of direct supplier links (EDI), with more on higher plans. A smaller supplier may have no such link to offer.

The count ends after the rep goes home

MarketMan can show what is short as soon as the night count is done. With a distributor who takes orders over the phone, the order still waits for the rep to pick up next morning, and a MarketMan alternative would not change that.

What You Get

No MarketMan alternative needed to change one order

Voice Ordering

Say it once, see each line, then send

Open the app in the storeroom and say what you need from that distributor. The lines appear from the guide set up for your account. Change a quantity or delete a line, and send it only when it looks right.

Every line is yours to review before it goes

Send it at midnight if that is when the count is done

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

Called away halfway? The order is saved

More on placing an order by voice

Your Supplier's Guide

The distributor keeps your list and prices up to date

The distributor loads the products you buy from them, at your account's prices, under their item codes. When a price or an item changes, they make the change. MarketMan does this too for suppliers linked to it both ways; this is for the ones that are not.

Just your usual items, not their whole catalog

Priced the way your account is priced

No item list for you to build

Same distributor, same rep

Ordering from several suppliers

A Record Of It

Each app order carries a number and a time

Orders you send in the app get an order number, a date and a time stamp, and a confirmation reaches your phone. When a delivery comes up short, you have the order itself to show, not your memory of a call.

Shows exactly when you sent it

Confirmed back to you by notification or text

Easy to hold up against the delivery

Phone calls and voicemails still get no number from us

What each supplier confirmed

Your MarketMan Setup

MarketMan still does the counting and costing

MarketMan keeps every job it does today: counts, pars, recipe costs and invoice scanning. Only one thing changes: the order you used to phone to that one distributor gets spoken instead.

Stock counts carry on in MarketMan

Reports work as before

Invoices still go in by photo or email

Recipe costs keep updating from your invoices

How ordering fits beside your stock counts

Use Both

Let MarketMan plan the order, then say it to one distributor

This is not a MarketMan replacement. MarketMan decides what you need and tracks what it cost. VoiceOrder Solutions carries one part of that: the order to a distributor on our app, spoken on your phone and checked before it goes.

Spoken orders skip MarketMan's purchase order

No purchase order gets created in MarketMan, so that order skips any approval you have set up there. MarketMan does not see that order; its invoice goes in the way it does today.

Count, check the pars, then speak what is short

Run your usual MarketMan count and let its pars show what is short from that distributor. Then open our app, say that list, and look over each line before you send.

Best for routine reorders

It suits reorders that need no sign-off. If every order to a distributor needs approval, or that distributor is linked both ways to MarketMan, keep it in MarketMan. Send each distributor's orders from one app only, so the same order never goes out twice.

See how an order travels from the storeroom to the supplier

In 20 minutes, see an example guide in the app, a practice order read out and corrected, and the copy that reaches the distributor.

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FAQ

Questions from operators who run MarketMan

Do I need a MarketMan alternative to start speaking my orders?

No. MarketMan already turns your counts and pars into an order and passes it to your suppliers. Where one of your distributors has our app, you can order from that one by voice instead.

Is VoiceOrder Solutions better than MarketMan?

For counts, pars, suggested orders, invoices, recipe costs or approvals across locations, no: we do none of those. We do one job: you say an order in our app for one distributor and check each item first. Where MarketMan has a two-way link with a supplier, we add little for that supplier. If phoning one distributor is what made you look for a MarketMan alternative, that one job may be enough.

Do VoiceOrder Solutions and MarketMan connect?

No. They are separate, and neither one's support team covers the other. Orders said in our app go only to your distributor, so MarketMan never sees them.

How do I receive a delivery I ordered by voice?

MarketMan holds no order for it, so check what arrives against your confirmation and its order number. Then enter the invoice in MarketMan as usual.

Can I order from every supplier in the app?

Only from the distributors that run VoiceOrder Solutions. MarketMan can order from far more suppliers than we reach. Keep those in MarketMan, and ask your other suppliers whether they have our app.

What if the app gets an item or a quantity wrong?

You fix it on the review screen before you send: change the item or the amount, or delete the line. That check is the safeguard, and a rushed look can still let a mistake through. An order made by phone or left on voicemail gets no order number from us; only app orders do.

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

Your distributor opens your account, and most kitchens send their first order on the day it opens. If your distributor does not have the app, or you cannot tell, contact us and we will put you in touch with whoever handles it. On price, check with your distributor: the app reaches you through them, and we list no price of our own. MarketMan publishes its plans.

Where do the MarketMan details on this page come from?

From marketman.com as we read it on 27 October 2026: their features, published plans and partner list. We found no voice ordering there on that date. We have left MarketMan's customer and savings claims off this page. If something has changed, tell us and we will correct it.

Not A MarketMan Alternative: Skip The Supplier Call

is when most kitchens can start, after the distributor adds them

less per order than talking it through on the phone

for ordering, even on nights the supplier is closed

What MarketMan does, in both columns.
What ordering by voice adds.

Feature

MarketMan + VoiceOrder Solutions

MarketMan on its own