Fourth FAQs

  • Who is Fourth best for - their role(s) within what kind of companies.

    Fourth's software touches on quite a few roles within the hospitality industry.

    Finance love us for our Data & Analytics, which help them to make better decisions thanks to our ability to show all your data (Fourth and non-Fourth) in one place.

    Operations, purchasing and F&B teams use our Purchase-to-Pay & Inventory solutions, which gives them end-to-end management of ingredients, from ordering, to recipe and menu engineering.

    Our Workforce Management solutions are perfect for HR and payroll, giving them control over the complete employee lifecycle, from application tracking, to employee engagement.

  • How does Fourth benefit them?

    Our Purchasing and Invoice Processing solutions allow total control over every purchase, every penny, reducing the cost of buying and accounts payable overhead by eliminating wrong deliveries and inaccurate invoices.

    Our Inventory and Recipe & Menu Engineering solutions ensure full transparency and complete control over your stock, giving you visibility over your menu costings down to the individual ingredients. Worries about allergens? Our Nutrition and Menu Publishing solution has your back.

    Our Workforce Management solutions, enable complete employee lifecycle management, allowing you to manage your employees from when they first submit their CV, to managing their rotas, keeping them engaged, processing their payroll, and then finally to when you process their P45. This is accomplished using only one system.

  • How technical do users need to be to use Fourth's software?

    You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to use our software: once you’ve been trained you’ll soon be ordering stock, or processing payroll in your sleep. One of our company values is ‘simple’, and we keep this in mind when designing our solutions.

  • What makes Fourth a leader in this space?

    We consider ourselves a hospitality company: we were founded by two hospitality entrepreneurs who wanted to improve the industry and its processes. A large percentage of our employees have worked in the industry before and understand how complex it can be. Our solutions have been built with and are supported by hospitality businesses big and small, we haven’t had to adapt existing solutions to fit.