The register sees the walk-ins. Olo sees what guests order online.
Most forecasts are built from the POS alone, so demand that starts on a website, an app or a catering form is easy to underweight. Once you authorize access, ClearCOGS reads your Olo order data and folds it into the same model that learns from your POS sales, weather, local events and seasonality. One plan for tomorrow, per location, covering the counter, the app and catering.
Contact Our TeamWhat Olo orders add to your forecast
ClearCOGS reads order data from the Olo account you authorize. Those digital and catering orders join your POS sales as inputs to each location’s daily forecast, so the plan reflects demand from every channel you run through Olo.
Catering orders placed through Olo are counted in that location’s forecast, so a large order is part of the plan and not a surprise on the day.
Every morning, each location receives an item-level prep sheet, ordering guidance and a labor plan built from POS sales and authorized Olo orders together. One number per item, not two sources to reconcile.
Powering smarter restaurant kitchens with ClearCOGS forecasts and Olo orders
Menu Forecasting
We tell you exactly how many chicken tenders, greek salads, or tater tots you’ll need to have ready the next day.
Average Waste Reduction
Labor Forecasting
Schedule your staff with confidence using ClearCOGS labor budget guidance.
Lower Labor Costs
Sales Forecasting
Daily sales forecasts for every location, delivered before the day starts.
Data Points
Why Olo + ClearCOGS
ClearCOGS reads Olo order data only after you authorize it, and reading is all it does. Your menus, pricing, ordering channels and guest experience in Olo stay as you configured them.
When a meaningful share of sales starts on your website, your app or a catering form, a POS-only forecast works from a partial picture. Counting Olo orders gives each kitchen a fuller one.
Most ClearCOGS deployments go from kickoff to daily forecasts in about three weeks. You can authorize Olo access during that same setup, right alongside your POS connection, so there is no separate project to run.
ClearCOGS reads sales history from Toast, Square, and Oracle Simphony, among other major POS systems, through one-way read access. Olo orders layer on top of that history, so nothing about how your team rings up orders changes.
You authorize ClearCOGS to read order data from your Olo account. Those digital and catering orders join the demand model alongside your POS sales, and each morning every location gets a prep sheet, ordering guidance and a labor plan. The connection is read-only, so your Olo setup does not change.
Book a meeting with our team. During onboarding, ClearCOGS connects to your POS and builds each location’s forecast, and you can authorize access to your Olo order data in that same setup. Most ClearCOGS deployments are live in about three weeks, and your Olo configuration stays as it is.
Tell your ClearCOGS implementation contact, or reply to one of your daily forecast emails, that you run Olo. We will walk you through authorizing access, and your prep sheets start reflecting digital and catering demand alongside POS sales.
No. The connection is read-only. ClearCOGS does not touch your menus, pricing, ordering channels or guest-facing experience in Olo. It reads order data with your authorization and uses it to plan.
Digital and catering orders from the Olo account you authorize, for the locations you connect. Each one is counted in that location’s forecast, so the plan reflects what guests order online and for catering as well as at the counter.
No. ClearCOGS works with Toast, Square, and Oracle Simphony among other major POS systems, reading sales history through one-way access. Olo adds your digital and catering orders on top of that POS history, whichever of those systems you run.
Yes. Olo is a ClearCOGS partner, and restaurant brands that run both can authorize ClearCOGS to read their Olo orders and count them in the daily forecast. Olo founder Noah Glass also joined the ClearCOGS podcast to talk about second-party ordering and restaurant profit; the episode is linked on this page.
About ClearCOGS and Olo
ClearCOGS is the Decision Intelligence platform for restaurants. It turns POS data into tomorrow’s prep, ordering and labor plan for each location, so teams start the day knowing what to make, what to buy and who to schedule. Today 300+ restaurant brands start their day with a ClearCOGS plan.
Olo is a restaurant technology company whose platform provides digital ordering, payments, delivery management and catering tools for restaurant brands.
Book a call with our team. If you run Olo, we will show you how digital and catering orders become a prep sheet your kitchen can act on.