Operations software for every kind of food and drink brand

Pesto runs orders, stock, costs, suppliers and invoicing for challenger food and drink brands. How it does that depends on how you make your product: in your own kitchen, with a co-packer, by buying in finished goods, or on a canning line. Pick the setup that looks most like yours.

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Which setup sounds like yours?

You make it yourself

Your own kitchen, bakery, roastery or production floor. Pesto costs every production run from the ingredient lots that actually went in, shows yield against the recipe and traces any batch from supplier to customer.

You make some, a co-packer makes the rest

Pesto tracks the materials you send, the inputs your co-packer buys for you (shadow materials), every co-man fee and the stock sitting at their site.

You buy in finished goods

Retailers, wholesalers and independents on one side, a manufacturer and one or more 3PLs on the other. Pesto reads every PO, routes each order to the right warehouse and plans around long lead times.

You run a drinks brand

Cans, labels and outers at the canning line, mixed cases, samples for every event and BBE dates on every delivery. Pesto keeps them in step.

What stays the same, whichever setup you run?

Every Pesto customer gets the same core:

Orders from anywhere.

PDFs, spreadsheets, emails, EDI and Shopify, matched to each customer's own codes and prices. → Order management

Batch-tracked stock.

FEFO or FIFO, shelf-life rules per customer and traceability in both directions. → Inventory

Xero invoices from what you shipped.

→ Invoicing & collections

Frequently asked questions

Can Pesto handle in-house and co-packed production at the same time?

Yes. Each production run records where the product was made, in-house or at a named co-packer, and Pesto costs each finished lot from that run.

Is Pesto only for food manufacturers?

No. Many Pesto customers buy in finished goods and never make anything themselves. Pesto runs their orders, stock, supplier POs and invoicing.

Does Pesto work for D2C-only brands?

Pesto works best for brands selling to retailers, wholesalers or foodservice as well as direct. If you only sell D2C on Shopify, Shopify probably has you covered.

See Pesto running on your own orders.

Bring a real PO, your messiest one. We'll show you what Pesto does with it in 30 minutes.

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