Avero
Avero extracts and standardizes POS data, then presents it as hospitality insights to help operators understand and improve restaurant performance. Its Starter tools include a POS-connected logbook, check search, menu mix trends, payment breakdowns, group sales, scheduled email reports, and configurable dashboards. Essentials adds server and bartender performance measures, individual scorecards, contest management, promotion and void breakdowns, and labor insights. Professional adds overtime tracking, labor-by-hour analysis, payroll reporting and export, and hour-by-hour revenue reporting for examining slow periods, table turns, special menus, and promotion uptake. Avero serves food and beverage operators in restaurants, hotel outlets, casinos, nightlife businesses, and larger groups. It lists more than 40 integrations with POS and time-and-attendance systems, including Aloha, Clover, Square, Toast, and TouchBistro. Its RESTful API and standardized POS data support analysis in Excel and other business intelligence tools. Avero describes the service as cloud-based and requiring no Avero hardware. Starter is free. Essentials is 300.00 USD per year per location, and Professional is 600.00 USD per year per location; prices increase based on annual sales volume.
Who it is for
Avero suits food and beverage operators who want to analyze POS data, including single venues and larger groups. Its tiered tools address sales, server performance, and labor reporting needs.
What is good
- Starter includes POS-connected logs and configurable dashboards
- Essentials adds server and bartender scorecards
- Professional includes labor and payroll reporting
- More than 40 POS and time-and-attendance integrations
- RESTful API supports external analysis
What to know first
- Prices increase based on annual sales volume
- Safari is not supported
- Data protection depends on the POS machine being PCI compliant
Verdict
Avero turns standardized POS data into reporting for sales, service, and labor analysis. Its free Starter plan provides core tools, while higher tiers are priced per location and increase with annual sales volume.
Avero plans and pricing
All plansCompared on restaurant menu engineering software
- Free plan
- Yes
- POS data connectors
- Yes
- Labor analytics
- Yes
- Food-cost analysis
- Yes
- Customer behavior analysis
- Yes
- Multi-location reporting
- Yes
- Forecasting
- Yes
- Data export
- Yes
