Your POS runs today’s shift. ClearCOGS plans tomorrow’s.
SkyTab records each check as it closes. ClearCOGS takes that sales history, layers on weather, local events and seasonality, and returns one clear answer per location: how much of each item to prep, what to order, and how many hours to schedule. Access is one-way and granted by you, so your Shift4 setup stays exactly as it is today.
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ClearCOGS reads your SkyTab sales history, item by item and location by location, then sends each kitchen the amount to prep and the point to stop, by email before the first shift.
The same sales data drives ordering. Forecast demand rolls up into what to buy before the next delivery, so you stock for what the week will sell instead of what last week left behind.
Daily sales forecasts for each location become labor spend guidance built on your rules, so managers build the schedule in the tool they already use with tomorrow’s demand in front of them.
Powering smarter Shift4 kitchens with ClearCOGS forecasts
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 Shift4 + ClearCOGS
ClearCOGS reads sales data from your Shift4 POS with your authorization and writes nothing back. Menus, checks, menu prices and reports stay untouched.
ClearCOGS integrates with major POS systems including Toast, Square, and Oracle Simphony, through one-way read access to sales data. For SkyTab, the operator grants ClearCOGS read access to sales data, and that authorization is the whole connection.
Grant access, we build each location’s forecast, and the first plan lands in the inbox. From kickoff to a live daily plan is about three weeks for most operators.
Each location’s numbers come from its own sales history, weather, events and seasonality. The plan fits the store, not the average, and that is how it works across 300+ restaurant brands.
You authorize ClearCOGS to read sales data from your SkyTab POS. ClearCOGS combines that history with weather, local events and seasonality, then builds a forecast for each location: item-level prep quantities, an order plan and labor guidance, delivered before the day starts. You never key in sales figures by hand, and your POS keeps running exactly as it does today.
Book a meeting with our team. We confirm which locations run SkyTab, walk you through granting read access, and build each location’s forecast from its own sales history. Expect the first SkyTab-built prep sheet in about three weeks from kickoff.
Let your ClearCOGS implementation rep know, or reply to any daily prep sheet email, and tell us which location runs SkyTab. We walk through the authorization with you and fold that location’s sales history into its forecast.
No. The connection is read-only. ClearCOGS reads sales data and writes nothing back, so your menus, checks, menu prices, payments and reporting inside SkyTab stay exactly as they are.
ClearCOGS works with Shift4 operators running SkyTab POS. Shift4 also owns Revel, and if some of your locations run Revel or another POS, ClearCOGS integrates with major POS systems including Toast, Square, and Oracle Simphony, so the whole group runs on one daily plan.
No. SkyTab keeps running the front of house and taking payment. ClearCOGS adds the planning layer on top: what to prep, what to order and how many hours to schedule, built to sit alongside the scheduling and ordering tools your managers already use.
An Operational Decision Platform (ODP) is the layer between your POS and your kitchen. Dashboards look backward at last week’s sales; an ODP looks forward and hands each location a decision: this much to prep, this much to order, this many hours to schedule. For a Shift4 operator, the checks SkyTab closes tonight become tomorrow morning’s plan.
About ClearCOGS and Shift4
ClearCOGS is the Operational Decision Platform (ODP) for restaurants. POS sales history goes in; what comes out is tomorrow’s prep, order and labor plan for each location, ready before the day begins. 300+ restaurant brands run on it today.
Shift4 is the company behind SkyTab POS and Revel, two point-of-sale systems used in restaurants.
Thirty minutes with our team is all it takes to start. Run SkyTab today, and your first prep sheet built from your own checks could be in the inbox in about three weeks.