Overview
An introduction to the Maska platform — Procurement, Operate, Studio and Reservations — and where to start with each.
Maska is a suite of tools for running a hospitality business — the buying and counting of stock, the daily routines in every outlet, the content your brand puts out, and the table bookings your guests make. Each part is its own app, but they share one login, one team list, and one live picture of your business.
You sign in to every Maska app with the same email or phone and 4-digit PIN. What you see after signing in depends on your role — owners and managers get full consoles, staff get simple phone-first screens scoped to their own outlet.
The modules
Procurement
Procurement is how your team buys, moves, counts and values stock — from raising a requisition through receiving goods to reconciling a physical count. It spans your warehouse, central kitchen and outlets, and keeps a live, costed stock balance for every location.
- Start here: what Procurement covers and the glossary for every term (PR, PO, GRN, par level, lots and more).
- Daily work: the stock dashboard, receiving goods with a GRN, logging wastage and stock takes.
- Ordering: purchase requests, purchase orders and sending a PO to a vendor.
- The built-in AI helper, Basanti: bulk onboarding from invoices and rate cards, the recipe builder, and Oye Basanti for plain-language questions about your live numbers.
Operate
Operate is how your outlets run the day: scheduled checklists (opening, mid-day, closing), on-demand log tasks like fridge temperatures, escalations when something is missed or a reading goes out of range, maintenance tickets for broken equipment, and reports that roll it all up for managers.
- Start here: what Operate covers.
- For staff: your day in Operate, log tasks and maintenance tickets.
- For managers: building checklists, scheduling, escalations, monitoring the day and reports.
Studio
Studio is your content and design workspace — where the team plans what to post, designs it, gets it signed off, schedules it and records it as posted, and where campaigns, events and every brand asset live.
- Start here: what Studio covers and how a piece of content moves from idea to posted.
- Day to day: My work, the calendar and schedule, campaigns and events.
- Setup: brands, assets, team and roles and settings.
Reservations
Reservations handles the full lifecycle of a table booking — from a guest requesting a slot on your public booking page, through staff confirmation, to the guest arriving or cancelling.
- Start here: what Reservations covers.
- Guests use the booking page and booking status.
- Staff manage bookings from the admin dashboard and control availability in admin settings.
Which app do I open?
| If you are… | You will mostly use |
|---|---|
| An owner or general manager | All four — consoles in each module |
| A purchase manager or storekeeper | Procurement |
| A central-kitchen chef | Procurement’s kitchen console |
| Outlet staff | The Procurement staff app and the Operate Today board |
| An outlet or ops manager | The Operate console |
| A designer or social media manager | Studio |
| Front-of-house handling bookings | Reservations |
Getting set up
- Sign in. Open the app your admin shared with you and sign in with your email or phone and 4-digit PIN. Your role decides what you land on.
- Set up your masters (admins). In Procurement, add locations, departments, vendors and items — or let Basanti bulk-onboard them from your invoices and rate cards. In Operate, build and publish your checklists. In Studio, set up your brands and invite the team.
- Run the day. Receive goods, complete checklists, move content across the board, confirm bookings — every module keeps a record of who did what and when.
- Ask for help in the app. Guided walkthroughs are built in — look for Settings → Help to replay a tour for your role at any time.