MarginEdge owns the back office — invoices, food cost, and COGS. Aedan Rose is the AI-native all-in-one for everything your guests touch: reservations, ordering, CRM, loyalty, scheduling, and analytics — run day to day with an agentic AI Copilot on the Manager plan.
MarginEdge is a mature back-office cost tool — invoice scanning, food cost variance, ingredient-level COGS. Aedan Rose is the AI-native all-in-one for the guest side. Here is where each one leads.
Real product, real screens. Everything below shares one database and one bill — no stack of point tools, no separate logins. Plan tiers are noted so nothing is oversold.
A guest-facing multi-agent AI answers questions, takes reservations, and helps diners order — 24/7, in over 100 languages — straight from a widget on your own site. This is a customer-facing layer MarginEdge does not have.
Capture bookings around the clock with automated confirmations and no-show tracking, then map them onto a visual floor plan you design yourself — tables, sections, and VIP areas.
An embeddable ordering widget and a standalone order page take direct orders with payouts through your own Stripe account — no third-party marketplace between you and your guest. Per-product-type tax is handled automatically.
Real-time KPIs surface revenue, customer behavior, peak-time patterns, and conversion. Full House adds the Money Dashboard and inventory with recipe costing, auto-86, PDF/CSV import, and velocity insights — so you get cost tools in the same login as the guest side.
On the Manager plan, the Aedan Rose Copilot reads your data and proposes and executes real actions — building schedules, messaging staff, editing the menu, and managing your CRM. You stay in control; it does the busywork. Reporting tools tell you what happened. The Copilot helps you act on it.
Run the business from the web dashboard, and keep your team in sync with free iOS and Android apps — scheduling, team chat, and shift trades in their pocket.
A side-by-side view of what each platform leads on. We mark both wins and tradeoffs — including where MarginEdge is stronger.
| Capability | MarginEdge | Aedan Rose |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | ~$330/mo per location (reported) | $79/mo · free tier · 30-day trial |
| Free tier | No | Free Perfect Start tier + 30-day trial |
| Invoice OCR & ingredient-level COGS | Core strength | Not in scope |
| Supplier ordering & price comparison | Yes | Not in scope |
| Inventory (recipe costing, auto-86) | Yes | Yes — on Full House |
| Reservations & visual floor plan | No | Full House ($299/mo)+ |
| Online ordering (own Stripe payouts) | No | Online Ordering plan+ |
| Guest-facing AI (100+ languages) | No | Every plan |
| CRM, loyalty & win-back automation | No | All paid plans |
| Scheduling & team operations | No | Online Ordering plan ($79/mo)+ |
| Agentic AI Copilot (acts with approval) | No | Manager plan |
| Contract | Typically annual | Month-to-month |
MarginEdge pricing reflects publicly reported figures and can vary by location and configuration; confirm current pricing with MarginEdge. Aedan Rose plan availability is noted per row. A gold star marks capabilities where MarginEdge leads.
MarginEdge is excellent at cost accounting. But most of a restaurant's day happens on the guest side — and that is where a single AI-native platform pays off.
Reservations, ordering, CRM, loyalty, scheduling, inventory, and analytics share one database and one login — instead of a stack of point tools that don't talk to each other.
Cost tools tell you what happened. On Manager, the Aedan Rose Copilot proposes and executes real actions with your approval — schedules, staff messages, menu edits, CRM.
Aedan Rose updates the moment a reservation books or an order completes — over WebSocket — so you can act on the same shift, not after the overnight batch.
Transparent per-location pricing from a free tier up to $949/mo, no annual lock-in, and a 30-day free trial. Model usage is included with every plan.
No marketing handwave. MarginEdge has real strengths on the cost side. If your priorities map to these, weigh them carefully — and know that the two platforms pair well together.
Best-in-class invoice processing: MarginEdge's OCR and invoice digitization for restaurant suppliers is mature. Drag-and-drop a vendor invoice and it parses ingredients, prices, and units. Aedan Rose does not do invoice OCR.
Ingredient-level COGS: MarginEdge tracks food cost variance per ingredient, recipe profitability, and supplier price changes in depth. If food cost optimization is your single biggest lever, that depth is significant.
Deep POS & accounting integrations: MarginEdge plugs into the cost side of your stack natively, including common POS and accounting systems. If you already run those, the integration matters.
Supplier ordering and price comparison: MarginEdge can route orders to suppliers and compare prices across vendors — a purchasing workflow Aedan Rose doesn't handle.
Because Aedan Rose runs the guest side, adopting it doesn't disturb your cost tools. You can add it alongside anything you already use, or make it your all-in-one.
Spin up on the 30-day free trial with no credit card and no contract. Keep MarginEdge running the whole time — nothing to disconnect.
Add your menu, floor plan, and hours through a guided setup. Connect your own Stripe for direct payouts. Manager includes dedicated onboarding.
Embed the ordering widget or share your order page, turn on reservations, and let the AI take it from there — month-to-month, cancel anytime.