Apicbase is Belgian too. For a different venue.
First the fair words: Apicbase is not a bad product, and we even share a passport. It is built in Ghent, runs in ghost kitchens and hotel groups across Europe, and the recipe management, menu engineering and HACCP modules are genuinely strong. If you have a central production unit or ten outlets sharing recipes, Apicbase is a sound choice.
But Apicbase is built bigger than you. From €249 a month per location, with an annual contract and a 15% surcharge on monthly billing, a single café passes €3000 a year quickly — for modules where you probably use three. No public trial, no price without a demo, and weeks of sales before you see real numbers.
Where our two tools do not meet
Apicbase does recipe costing, menu engineering, HACCP tasks, CO2 footprint, two-way traceability and production planning for central kitchens. That is a platform for a head of operations who reads reports every morning. We deliberately do not build that: in an owner-run café it would be a module with empty boxes every month.
SuperShift stays with the order itself. Your staff flag what is running out in the app, you curate the list, and one click sends the email to the right supplier — from your venue’s own address, so the relationship with the rep runs through you, not through a Belgian SaaS tool.
Two Belgian tools, two types of customer
Apicbase sells to chains, ghost kitchens and hotel groups that need to harmonise multiple sites. We sell to that one café in Bruges with no central kitchen, no executive chef, and no appetite for two months of onboarding. That is not a smaller version of Apicbase. It is a different trade.
Our price is on the website: free up to 20 staff, €15 a month for Pro, €29 for Ultra multi-venue, cancel monthly. Apicbase is not expensive — Apicbase is expensive if you do not use half of it. For the right customer their software earns back its €249. For the wrong profile it is a subscription that stings every quarter.
Pricing comparison, no asterisks
Pricing pulled straight from their public pricing page (verified May 2026).
| What you get | Apicbase | SuperShift |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | €249/mo | €0 (up to 20 staff) · Pro €15/mo · Ultra €29/mo |
| Free tier | ||
| Setup fee | Unknown | None |
| Contract | Annual contract | Monthly or annual |
| Demo required for pricing | ||
| Email orders to suppliers | ||
| Supplier directory | ||
| Per-supplier product catalog | ||
| Live stock levels | ||
| Recipe costing / food cost | ||
| Order history | ||
| Multi-venue | ||
| Staff flag products themselves |
Questions we get a lot
Does SuperShift handle HACCP and allergens like Apicbase?
No. We do not track HACCP temperatures and we do not detect allergens per recipe. If you need FASFC traceability down to production level, Apicbase is the right choice. SuperShift handles only the ordering process to your suppliers, not what happens afterwards in the kitchen.
Do you support multi-venue like Apicbase?
Yes, on the Ultra plan at €29 a month. But it is multi-venue for operators with two or three sites, not for central production with consolidated reporting across twenty outlets. For the latter Apicbase is more serious and their price is defensible at that scale.
Why is your price so much lower?
Because we do less. No recipes, no margins, no forecasting, no CO2 report. Only the part every café actually does every week: build a list and email suppliers. Less software, less onboarding, less price. Not a marketing trick.
An Apicbase rollout starts with sales and sometimes ends two months later in production. SuperShift opens in two minutes, produces your first order list today and costs nothing until you cross 20 staff. Not better — different, for a different venue.
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