Not an Orderly Alternative: Keep Orderly, Add Voice Ordering

Orderly, Plus One Step

Orderly still shows what the food cost you.
Voice only changes how the order gets to them.

One step changes when you add our app: for a distributor that gives you the app, orders are spoken, and you look over each line before it goes. Orderly's invoice-based costing carries on, so this is not an Orderly alternative. Ticks for Orderly's features come from Orderly; the voice rows cover only a distributor with our app.

Feature

Orderly + VoiceOrder Solutions

Orderly on its own

Food cost from invoices, no stock counts needed

Order by speaking it

Not listed on their site

Invoices sent in by photo, scan or EDI

Guide loaded by the distributor, prices included

Custom guides you create

Orders sent to all your vendors

Bill pay, accounting and payroll

Recipe costs and price creep alerts

Par-based ordering (an Orderly add-on)

Orders placed from a phone or a desktop

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Before You Compare

What sends owners looking for an alternative to Orderly

Orderly, now Back Office by Buyers Edge Platform, is built so you never type an invoice line or count a shelf: it does the cost math for you. Sometimes an owner hunting for an Orderly competitor is weighing the monthly bill; sometimes it is the ordering. Getting the order to your distributor is a separate job, and you can change just that.

Built so nobody types or counts

Orderly promises no data entry and no counts: snap or sync each invoice, and your cost of goods is tracked for you, with a team sending weekly suggestions. That is the core of what the monthly price buys.

A monthly price for each location

Orderly lists its prices on its website, charged per site and month to month. That openness counts in its favor. A bill is a fair reason to look around, but moving to an Orderly alternative would also mean giving up the data entry Orderly does for you.

Ordering is the part you still do yourself

Orderly takes the typing and counting off your plate, but each order is still yours: you set up the guides and send each order. For a distributor you phone or text today, that step can change.

What You Get

Skip the Orderly alternative and add this instead

Voice Ordering

Speak the order, look it over, send it

Open the app at the pass or in the walk-in and say what you need. Each item shows up as a line from that distributor's guide. Change a quantity or drop a line before you send. Nothing goes until you send it.

Each line is yours to check before it goes

Send it at 2 a.m. if that is when you get to it

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

Called away halfway? Pick up where you stopped

How placing an order works

Your Order Guide

The guide comes from the distributor

You do not build this guide. The distributor loads what your restaurant buys from them, at the prices set for your account, under their item codes, and updates it when something changes.

Just your usual items, not their full range

Priced by the distributor for you

Kept up to date on their side

You keep the same distributor and the same rep

Buying from more than one supplier

Proof Of The Ask

A record of what you asked for

Orderly shows what a delivery cost once its invoice is in. VoiceOrder Solutions keeps the other half: whatever you send in the app is numbered, dated and timed, and a confirmation comes back to your phone. If a delivery comes up short, quote that number instead of a call nobody logged.

A number on each order sent from the app

Stamped with the time you sent it

Confirmed back to you by notification or text

Orders you phone in or leave on voicemail get no number

Tracking what each supplier confirmed

Your Food Cost

Orderly keeps reading the invoice

The truck arrives with an invoice, as it does now. Snap it, scan it or let it sync, the way you send invoices to Orderly today, and that delivery is counted like any other. VoiceOrder Solutions plays no part in that.

Invoices reach Orderly the way they do now

Weekly suggestions and recipe costing as before

Alerts on rising prices still come from each invoice

Bill pay and reports carry on in Orderly

Ordering as part of your stock routine

Getting Started

How a restaurant gets the app

No computer to set up: everything happens on your phone.

Ask whether your supplier offers it

If they offer VoiceOrder Solutions, they open your account and add the products you order from them. Not sure who to ask? Contact us and we will connect you with the right person.

Sign in and find your guide

Install it on your phone and sign in. Your guide is already there.

Say the order and confirm it

Speak it, read the lines, then send. Nothing else to learn.

Use Both

Orderly shows the cost, VoiceOrder Solutions sends the order

We are not an Orderly replacement. Orderly turns your invoices into food cost numbers. VoiceOrder Solutions only carries the order to a distributor on our app: spoken, checked, then sent with a number.

Orderly will not list that order

Anything you speak goes straight to your distributor, so that order does not appear in Orderly's ordering screen. If you like to see every order in one list, that is what you give up for this distributor.

Let Orderly's numbers set the list

Check what is short in Orderly, with its pars if you have that add-on, then speak that list into our app, which your distributor gave you. Your par routine stays; only the sending changes.

Choose Orderly or the app for each distributor

Send a distributor's orders one way only, so nothing arrives twice. The app helps most with a distributor you call or message today.

See the app from both ends

Book 20 minutes and we will walk through a sample order: spoken, checked line by line, and shown as the distributor receives it.

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FAQ

What owners ask before they try it

Should I look for an Orderly alternative to get voice ordering?

No. Orderly is food cost management built from your invoices, and ordering is already part of it. Where one of your suppliers hands you our app, orders to them can be spoken instead.

Is VoiceOrder Solutions better than Orderly?

Not at food cost, invoices, recipe costing or paying bills: we offer none of those. Ours is one narrow job, an order said out loud to your distributor and checked one line at a time. If ordering is what made you look for an Orderly alternative, that job beside Orderly may cover it.

Do VoiceOrder Solutions and Orderly connect?

No. There is no link between them, no data passes either way, and there is no shared support. Each one does its own job.

Can I order from every supplier with VoiceOrder Solutions?

No, only from distributors that offer it. Orderly lets you order from all your vendors, and we cannot, so stay with it for the others. You can also ask your other suppliers whether they use our app.

What if I say one item and a different one shows up?

Fix it or delete it on the review screen before you send. That check is your safeguard, so read it properly: a rushed glance can still let a mistake through. Anything phoned in or left on voicemail gets no order number from us; only orders sent in the app do.

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

Through your distributor: once they set up your account, most restaurants put their first order through that same day. Not sure whether yours is on VoiceOrder Solutions? Get in touch, and we can find out for you. As for cost, ask the distributor, since they hand out the app; we list no price of our own. Orderly, by contrast, publishes its prices.

Will Orderly still show what that delivery cost?

Yes. Orderly costs a delivery from its invoice, not from the order, so snap, scan or sync that invoice as you do today and the cost shows up like any other. The spoken order is the only part Orderly never sees.

Where do the Orderly details on this page come from?

From Orderly's two sites, getorderly.com and bepbackoffice.com, as they stood on 27 October 2026: the product, pricing, onboarding and FAQ pages. Any restaurant counts or savings Orderly cites stay off this page. Spot something Orderly has since changed? Tell us and we will correct it.

Not An Orderly Alternative: Speak Your Next Order

is when most restaurants send a first order once the account opens

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to send an order, late nights and Sundays included

Orderly still shows what the food cost you.
Voice only changes how the order gets to them.

Feature

Orderly + VoiceOrder Solutions

Orderly on its own