Kitchen and shelves, counted in one place.
Countershelf is back-of-house for hybrid stores: the mart with a cafe counter, the boba shop with a snack wall. Stock, invoices, orders and expiry dates in one system, on top of the Square you already use.
Built and used daily at Unni, a Korean street-food mart with three locations in three states, across two countries.
Sunday, October 4
What needs you today
4 left
- Due today
Random audit, shelf and kitchen
10 items picked at random.
- Expiring
14 banana milks expire Thursday
At today’s pace, 5 won’t sell in time.
- Short
Tteok and fish cake below par
Tteokbokki sells out by Friday at this rate.
- Check
Rhee Bros invoice, 23 lines
Read and matched. One cost went up 8%.
Square and Toast were built for a restaurant or a shop. You run both.
The same case of banana milk goes on the shelf and into a latte. Your POS only sees half of it, so the rest lives in spreadsheets: expiry dates, invoices typed in line by line, kitchen stock on a clipboard.
Countershelf keeps one count for every item, whichever counter it leaves from.
| Item | On the shelf | In the kitchen |
|---|---|---|
| Binggrae Banana MilkGoes into banana milk latte | 24 | 6 |
| Mozzarella blockGoes into cheese corn dogs | – | 12 |
| Shin RamyunGoes into ramyun bowls | 32 | 10 |
| Tteok (rice cakes)Goes into tteokbokki | 8 | 18 |
| Honey Butter Chips | 20 | – |
| GochujangGoes into tteokbokki sauce | 6 | 2 |
Sample stock. Switch sides the way the Inventory page does.
How a day runs
A day in the store
The jobs that used to happen on paper, in the order they happen.
MeetSunbae선배
The coworker who’s been here longer than everyone.
In a Korean workplace, your sunbae is the senior who knows where everything is and quietly has your back. Sunbae lives inside Countershelf. It watches your stock between sales, spots what’s about to go wrong, and asks before it acts.
- Flags expiring stock and suggests the fix
- Drafts the reorder before you run out
- One tap to approve. Nothing changes without you.
Sunbae
Today · 7:42 AM
Built behind a real counter
I run three Korean street-food marts. Every screen in Countershelf replaces something my team used to do by hand, on a clipboard or in a spreadsheet at closing.
Anna Oh, founder. Owner of Unni, three stores in three states across two countries.
- Stores running on it
- Two Unni stores, every day
- Largest catalog
- 1,000+ items in one store
- Where it was shaped
- Three states, two countries
Works with
Keeps the register you have
No new hardware, no retraining the counter. Countershelf works behind it.
- Live
Square. Catalog, sales and stock sync both ways. Markdowns go straight to your register.
- Next
Toast. The same connection for stores on Toast.
- Later
Countershelf POS. A register of its own, built for both counters, on Stripe Terminal.
Square
Your register
Toast
Coming next
One count
Kitchen
Recipes use stock
Shelf
Sold by the can
Sales, stock and markdowns sync both ways with your register.
Priced per store, like everything else in your week
Monthly, per location. Add a store when you open one.
Starter
$49per store, per month
One store getting off spreadsheets.
- Unified shelf and kitchen inventory
- Invoice and receipt scanner
- Expiration alerts
- Inventory Checks with scanner
Pro
For hybrid stores$99per store, per month
A store running a kitchen and a shelf.
- Everything in Starter
- Recipes with used-versus-expected stock
- Orders built from sales and par
- Ask Sunbae
- Markdowns pushed to Square
Enterprise
$179per store, per month
Several locations, one owner.
- Everything in Pro
- Multi-location view
- Staff accounts and permissions
- Priority support
See it on your own stock.
We’re bringing on a small group of hybrid stores while we finish the first version. Bring a recent invoice and we’ll scan it together.