FAQ
Frequently asked
Questions and answers
Quick answers for chefs, managers, and owners evaluating Vellin.
Vellin is a restaurant operations platform for inventory, purchasing, receiving, vendor collaboration, documents, and reporting.
Yes. You can manage multi-unit operations with shared catalogs, location-level permissions, and consolidated reporting.
You can import operational data like vendors, items, and pars with guided CSV flows, then add documents such as invoices to continue setup.
Create purchase orders from cart and order views, send them to vendors, track status changes, then use the receiving inbox to assign delivered quantities into storage.
It keeps counts current, flags low/out-of-stock items, watches vendor cutoffs, and surfaces price changes so managers know what to tackle first.
Yes. Vendors can manage assigned orders, update statuses, review suggestions, and work from a dedicated portal experience.
Reporting includes COGS, stockouts, PO cycle time, price variance, waste, and vendor performance, with date filtering for operational review.
Vellin watches pars, cutoff times, and price changes, then nudges the right owner to act before gaps or overages hit.
Yes. Completed purchase orders can be compiled and shared as PDF-style reconciliation summaries from the purchase order workflows.
Yes. The web app is responsive, so managers and teams can work across desktop and mobile browsers.
When enabled, AI can help prioritize operational actions and summarize issues based on current purchasing and inventory context.
Most teams can get running quickly by importing core data and setting first workflows, then expanding into receiving, reports, and vendor collaboration.
Vellin supports operational imports/exports and integration-friendly endpoints such as webhooks in supported modules. Additional integrations are added over time.
