COGS-EZ replaces the spreadsheets running your food distribution or manufacturing operation with a single connected system — and adds the cost intelligence QuickBooks can't provide.
Most small food distributors and manufacturers are running the same way: QuickBooks for accounting, spreadsheets for everything else. One for routes. One for inventory. One for purchase orders. Nothing talks to anything else.
You know your numbers are off. You just can't tell which customers are actually profitable, which routes are dragging you down, or where your margins went. By the time you find out, the damage is done.
QuickBooks tells you what happened. It doesn't tell you why your margins moved, which orders made money, or what a route actually costs to run.
The operators who are winning today aren't guessing. They have visibility into cost and margin at the transaction level — not just at year-end when their accountant tells them what went wrong.
QuickBooks Desktop and Enterprise are being sunset. Intuit is moving everyone to QuickBooks Online — which wasn't built for food distribution or manufacturing operations. COGS-EZ runs on QBO and gives you the operational and financial capabilities Desktop never could. This is the migration path that doesn't cost you capability.
COGS-EZ connects your purchasing, inventory, production, distribution, and financials into a single platform built on QuickBooks Online. Every operational transaction automatically generates the financial event that explains it.
Manage delivery routes, customer orders, and stops. Track profitability by route, customer, and product. Know what each route actually costs to run.
Real-time on-hand quantities with full lot traceability. Every unit traceable to the receipt or production event that created it. FIFO consumption, catch weight support.
Create purchase orders, receive against them, and capture purchase price variance automatically — the difference between what you paid and what you should have paid.
Allocate materials, record labor, complete production runs. Efficiency variance captured at completion. Full cost traceability from raw material to finished goods.
Set elemental standard costs per item — material, labor, overhead. Every variance calculation in the system traces back to a cost standard you control.
Built on QBO. Transactions flow between systems automatically. QBO remains your accounting system of record — COGS-EZ adds the operational and cost intelligence layer on top.
The financial methodology behind COGS-EZ — elemental standard costing, lot-level FIFO, variance capture at every transaction — is how the world's largest manufacturers run their cost accounting. We've adapted it for businesses with no dedicated IT team and no six-month implementation budget.
One price. Unlimited users. Everything included. No implementation fee for early customers. No separate support contract. No annual commitment required. If it's not working for you, 30 days notice and you're out. We earn your business every month.
Most food businesses that are surviving today do both — they manufacture a specialty product, distribute it themselves, and broadline with complementary items once they're in with customers. COGS-EZ is the only platform at this price point built for that reality.
Our channel partner network is staffed by food distribution and manufacturing industry veterans — not software generalists. The person helping you operate the system understands your operation, not just the software.
We're working with a small number of early customers right now. If you're a food distributor or manufacturer running on spreadsheets — or being pushed off QuickBooks Desktop — let's talk.
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