Square Restaurant Inventory by MarketMan equips sellers with real-time visibility into ingredient stock levels, automated purchasing tools, and cost-of-goods insights

DISTRIBUTED-WORKFORCE/OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 2, 2026-- Square today announced the global launch of Square Restaurant Inventory by MarketMan, an integration offering AI-driven ingredient and recipe management directly within the Square platform. By unifying front-of-house sales with back-of-house purchasing and food cost intelligence, the innovative solution provides restaurants with real-time visibility into ingredient usage across locations. Sellers are further equipped with automated purchasing tools to help track inventory levels, optimize pricing, and make smarter ordering decisions.

“Restaurants shouldn’t have to guess when managing one of their most important and controllable expenses,” said Morgan Kuntze, Global Partnerships Lead at Block. “Square Restaurant Inventory by MarketMan solves this by bringing forecasting and ingredient-level intelligence directly into the Square platform. Sellers can now confidently translate these insights into tangible improvements: streamlining recipe management, batch prepping, and updating menus. By eliminating the friction of juggling multiple systems and contracts, we’re enabling restaurants to operate smarter in a single destination.”

Turning Ingredient Data Into Smarter Menu Decisions

Square Restaurant Inventory by MarketMan enables operators to automate purchase orders, manage vendors and suppliers, and scan invoices, all while monitoring waste and identifying loss trends before they impact margins.

“With six locations, juggling ingredient inventory used to eat up hours on spreadsheets, manual counts, bulk-to-store conversions, and never knowing when a shop might run out mid-service,” said Walt Alexander, Managing Member of Pine State Biscuits. “With Square Restaurant Inventory by MarketMan, our inventory across all stores is finally visible and accurate in real time. Reordering is easy, waste is way down, and our team can spend their time on biscuits, not busywork.”

Rather than reacting after costs rise, sellers now gain real-time visibility into exactly how ingredient price changes will impact margin at the item level. Restaurants operators can:

• Forecast ingredient needs based on historical and live demand
• Adjust par levels to avoid waste and stockouts
• Identify unusual cost increases or margin erosion early
• Model ingredient substitutions to protect profitability
• Evaluate supplier price fluctuations before they impact the bottom line

Built for Growing Restaurants Looking to Optimize Costs

Building on their decade-long history as partners, MarketMan and Square are committed to creating a deeper, more unified experience for Square sellers. Square Restaurant Inventory by MarketMan includes:

• Single sign-on (SSO): Log in using Square credentials
• Unified Square billing: Inventory management included in one Square bill
• Centralized support: A streamlined experience from demo to ongoing service
• Seamless POS integration: Automatic syncing of sales data to maintain accurate inventory, recipes, and reporting

Strengthening Square’s Open, Connected Ecosystem

Today, 71% of enterprise sellers use at least one Square partner solution. As Square expands its partner ecosystem, the company continues to deliver connected tools that eliminate operational silos and help sellers confidently scale. Square Restaurant Inventory by MarketMan reflects this approach, extending Square’s intelligent platform with deeply integrated back-of-house automation. Whether sellers rely on Square-built tools or preferred ecosystem integrations, Square keeps their operations unified, flexible, and scalable.

Square for Restaurants is now live across the U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland, France, Spain, and Australia.

Learn more at: https://squareup.com/us/en/inventory-management/restaurants

About MarketMan

MarketMan is the AI-powered restaurant inventory management platform that equips operators with the real-time insights and automation they need to lower food costs, drive menu profitability, and protect margins with precision. Trusted by 15,000+ restaurants across 55+ countries, MarketMan integrates with all major POS systems, food distributors, and accounting platforms to simplify back-of-house operations from a single cloud-based platform. For more information, visit marketman.com.

About Square

Square helps businesses turn transactions into connections and businesses into neighborhood favorites.

In 2009, Square started with a simple invention – the first mobile card reader, which changed how the entire financial system thinks about small businesses. Square has since grown into a global business platform helping millions of sellers of all sizes participate and thrive in their communities.

Whether independently run or a global chain, Square understands that sellers succeed when they have the freedom to focus on the experiences that keep customers coming back. From point of sale and payments to online commerce, staff management, cash flow tools, and more, Square brings together the tools sellers need to run and grow on one intelligent platform. For more information, visit squareup.com.

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Source: Block, Inc.