🧈 butters

The team app for cafés.

Chat, checklists with photo proof, a handbook staff can ask, and announcements people actually read. One app instead of four.

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What changes with Butters

  • Twenty group chats that never switch offOne work chat that goes quiet outside your hours
  • Closing checklists ticked without anyone checkingChecklists that need a photo to count
  • The same questions, texted to you after hoursA handbook your staff can ask
  • Updates nobody readsAnnouncements that show who's read them
  • Counts on a clipboard, then you run outInventory counts that flag what's low
  • A prep sheet nobody updatesA prep list the team crosses off
  • Work that feels like one long to-do listPolls, pokes and daily streaks
  • The schedule in yet another appScheduling in the same appSoon

Built for the back of house

Most team apps stop at chat and schedules. Butters also runs the counts and the prep.

Inventory

Count it, see what's low, order it

Count on a phone or the back-of-house iPad. Anything under par goes on the shopping list, and the list tracks what's been ordered, when it's arriving, and what's been bought.

Prep

Today's prep, crossed off as it's made

Pick from your store's prep catalogue, set how many batches, and cross each one off. The weekly totals show how much of each thing you actually make, day by day.

One app instead of four

What a café usually stitches together, and what Butters covers on its own.

What you needButtersWhatsAppSlackHomebasePaper and Google Drive
Team chat by store✓✓✓✓Paid plans✕
Goes quiet outside your hours✓✕◐Manual✕–
Checklists with photo proof✓✕✕◐Paid add-on◐No proof
A handbook staff can ask✓✕◐Business+ AI✕◐Search only
Announcements with read tracking✓◐Per message✕✓Paid plans✕
Inventory counts, par levels and ordering✓✕✕✕◐By hand
Prep lists with batch counts✓✕✕✕◐By hand
Scheduling and shift swaps◐Coming soon✕✕✓Swaps on paid plans◐By hand
Work stays off personal phones' chats✓✕✓✓–

✓ built in   ◐ partly, or by hand   ✕ not really. Checked September 2026. Plans change, so check each company's site for the latest.