cost-easy.com

What it is

COST EASY is a cloud-based cost calculation and management platform for hotel, restaurant, and F&B management professionals. Its core goal is to help businesses record recipes, menus, ingredients, suppliers, and operating expenses, so they can control food and beverage costs, reduce waste, and support pricing decisions.

Core features

Based on the captured text, its feature set covers a fairly complete restaurant cost-management workflow: quick costing for recipes and menus, menu planning, sales price setting, usage calculations, loss/wastage calculations, allocation of labor and operating costs, supplier records, purchase orders, invoice registration, event/banquet cost management, and—in the Business plan—inventory, stocktaking, warehouses, departments, sales, and income/expense summaries. Allergen records and menu display are also notable highlights, helping F&B businesses meet relevant European guidance requirements. The platform is cloud-based and supports 24/7 internet access from phones, tablets, laptops, and PCs.

Pricing and trial

The product uses a free plan plus subscription model. The Free plan has no time limit and includes 1 license, 20 recipes, and 100 ingredients. Paid plans range from Basic at €9.99/month billed annually to Business at €69.99/month billed annually, with higher prices for monthly billing. Plans are mainly differentiated by the number of recipes, menus, licenses, and advanced modules. Subscriptions are non-refundable, and the stated payment method is bank transfer at the beginning of the billing period.

Pros and cons

Its strengths are a clear focus on a vertical use case, with well-connected modules for costing, menus, purchasing, inventory, and related workflows. The free plan lowers the barrier to trial, and the feature boundaries between plans are relatively transparent. The drawbacks are also clear: Basic through Premium each include only 1 user license, limiting team collaboration and scalability; there is no disclosed information about third-party integrations, APIs, or connections to POS/accounting software; and security is only described in terms of secure backup and storage, with little detail on encryption, permission audits, compliance certifications, or other information commonly required in enterprise procurement.

Who it is for and access from China

It is better suited to small and medium-sized restaurants, hotel kitchens, banquet operations, and F&B management teams in Europe—especially Greece and Cyprus—for dish pricing, supplier negotiations, and waste control. The text does not provide information about access from China, so its status is unknown. Payment appears to be limited to bank transfer, which may be less convenient for Chinese users than credit cards or local payment methods. Comparable products include Apicbase, MarketMan, MarginEdge, xtraCHEF, as well as domestic Chinese restaurant ERP, inventory management, and dish-costing systems.