The mental model behind every screen — one organization, your companies, the modules your plan turns on, and the roles that decide who sees what.
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Read this once, before you dig into any one task. Everything else in these docs assumes the shape laid out here, and the whole app is built from a handful of ideas that repeat. Keep your home screen open next to this page and you'll see them in place.
Most operations arrive at Bettr Manager running on three things at once: a spreadsheet for inventory, QuickBooks for the money, and paper batch sheets on the floor. The numbers drift apart, and someone spends their week re-keying data between them to keep the story straight.
Bettr Manager holds purchasing, receiving, inventory, production, and sales in one system. The lot you receive is the lot you produce with and the lot you ship — one record, followed the whole way through. Your team stops being the glue between tools, because there's a single place for the work to live.
When you subscribed, Bettr Manager set up your . Within it you run one or more companies: the individual plants or entities you operate, each with its own stock, production, and people.
A single-site maker runs one company. A business with a production kitchen and a separate commissary runs two, side by side, under the same login. The Active company picker in the top bar chooses which one you're working in — every lot, order, and run you see belongs to that company until you switch.
Bettr Manager is built from modules — Purchasing, Sales, Production, Picking, Waste records, Invoicing, and a few more. Your plan decides which ones are switched on. Open the home screen and the Modules grid shows a card for every module your plan turned on; the sidebar lists the same set. Each card is a door into that part of the app — Inventory, Purchase orders, and the rest. A module your plan doesn't include simply isn't shown, so the app only ever offers what you have.
There are four plans — Kitchen, Line, Plant, and a sales-led Group — and each turns on more than the last. Kitchen covers buying, making, and selling; Line adds picking, waste records, and invoicing; Plant turns on everything, down to kitchen returns and the staff schedule. When an operation outgrows its plan, moving up turns on the modules above it, and the work already in Bettr Manager carries straight over.
Everyone you invite is a member of one or more companies. What each member can do is set by . A role decides who can edit recipes, approve purchases, count stock, or manage people.
Most teams get by on a handful of roles — an administrator, a floor lead, a quality reviewer. When one person needs a little more or less than their role gives, you grant permissions to them directly on top, without inventing a whole new role. Access is checked on every screen, so a member only ever reaches the companies and actions they've been given.
The modules line up in the order the work actually happens, and each one hands off to the next:
Nothing is re-keyed along the way. The lot a supplier delivered is the lot you produced with and the lot a customer received — one thread, from the loading dock to the invoice.
Bettr Manager never overwrites. Every count, move, receipt, and shipment is recorded as its own entry, and the current picture is built from the whole history — not from a cell someone typed over. Correcting a mistake adds a correction; it doesn't erase what happened.
That's what turns traceability from a promise into a lookup. Because the whole chain is kept, you can trace any lot in seconds — forward to every shipment it went into, and backward to the supplier it came from — following its . A mock recall or an audit stops being a scramble through binders and becomes something you can run before the auditor reaches the door.