What actually happened
The facts, dated: Restaurant365 announced its acquisition of Compeat in June 2021 and folded Compeat's accounting, back-office, and workforce products into the R365 platform. Compeat stopped existing as a standalone product you could buy. As of July 2026, Restaurant365 sells an enterprise all-in-one suite — accounting, inventory, scheduling, payroll — and no longer publishes pricing; its pricing page offers a custom quote through sales. When R365 last published tiers (May 2026), they ran $435–$635 per location per month.
None of that is a criticism. R365 is a capable enterprise platform built for multi-unit groups with finance teams — R365 itself points single-location restaurants elsewhere. The problem is what the transition did to operators who never chose it.
Where that left franchise operators
In many franchise systems, the corporate office or franchisor holds the R365 relationship. The finance team gets the suite. What reaches the store — the operator actually standing in the walk-in — is often just the reporting module: a month-end P&L PDF, weeks after the month it describes.
If you ran Compeat at the store level, you lost working tools and got a rearview mirror:
- Inventory counting — the cadence and count sheets you ran are now someone else's module.
- Invoice-level control — nobody at the store is checking line prices against what you agreed to pay.
- Ordering discipline — order guides drift back to gut feel and clipboard math.
- Daily cash visibility — the drawer gets counted to a target (if at all), and the month decides how you did.
The month-end PDF still arrives. It just describes money that's already gone.
The checklist: evaluating a replacement
Whatever you evaluate — including us — ask these eight questions. They separate tools built for operators from tools built for finance teams:
- Is the pricing public? If a vendor won't print a number, you're in an enterprise sales process whether you meant to be or not.
- What's the contract? Month-to-month means the product has to keep earning its keep. Annual means it doesn't.
- Does it run on the phones your staff already carry? A back-office tool your team can't use on the floor becomes your job.
- Does it read invoices line by line? Overcharges and substitutions live at the line level. Summary-level import misses them.
- What happens when a delivery is short? Detection is table stakes; the tool should draft the credit request too.
- Do you learn your number tonight or next month? A daily close — net after real COGS and labor — is the difference between steering and reading history.
- Can the drawer be counted blind, with evidence? If the counter can see the target, the count matches the target.
- Does your accountant keep their stack? You're replacing floor tools, not your GL. A good floor tool feeds clean numbers to whatever accounting you already use.
How we cover the gap (the honest version)
We built OpsBrain Inventory for exactly the floor layer stranded operators lost: mobile counting your team actually does, AI invoice scanning that checks every line against what you last paid, weather-adjusted ordering, and one-tap Sysco credit requests. It's $99/month founding ($149 standard), pricing public, month-to-month, 14-day free trial — every answer to the checklist above on purpose.
OpsBrain Cashflow covers the daily-P&L side: what you actually kept tonight — net sales minus real COGS from your scanned invoices, minus labor, minus fixed — plus blind drawer counts with photo evidence and a Monthly Close. It's in early access, running daily in a live store; pricing is set with you, operator to operator.
And what we don't do: OpsBrain is not a general ledger and won't replace your accountant. That's question eight — keep them.
The bottom line
Compeat's disappearance wasn't your decision, but the replacement is. Cover the floor first — counting, invoices, ordering, the nightly close — because that's where the money moves daily. The reporting layer you're receiving now describes the game after it's over; the tools above let you play it.