What is Othra? An AI analyst for your business software

Othra is an AI analyst for the software a business runs on. It connects, read only, to your point of sale, payments or accounting software (Clover today) and answers questions about your sales in plain English (or Turkish), with figure cards, charts, ranked lists and suggestions. Every number is worked out by Othra from your own orders, and the AI's job is to explain those numbers and suggest what to do next.

Othra is made by Ordero, an Austin, Texas software company. It costs $19.99 a month per business, and you can try it free on sample data before you connect your own.

How does Othra work?

Othra works in four steps: it reads your sales, Othra calculates the figures, you ask, and the AI explains. The split between calculating and explaining is the point of the design, because it keeps every number tied to your real orders.

1. Connect read only. You give Othra a read-only API token from your Clover web dashboard. It can look at orders, items and, if you allow it, payments and employees. It cannot change anything.
2. Othra computes every figure. When you ask a question, Othra reads the orders for that period from Clover and works out the totals itself, day by day, in your business's time zone.
3. You ask in plain words. Type a question the way you would ask your accountant, such as “How did last week compare with the week before?”
4. The AI explains. The AI gets only the figures Othra computed. It is told to use only those figures, to explain what they mean, to suggest what to try, and to say so when the data is not there.

Each question can cover up to about three months of orders: today, a week, a month or a quarter. For periods up to about six weeks, Othra also compares the period before, so “this week” comes with last week beside it.

What can you ask Othra?

You can ask Othra anything your Clover orders can answer: sales, busy hours, best sellers, staff, payments, tips, sales tax and even how the weather lined up with your sales. Here are example questions, grouped by the data they draw on.

Sales

• “What were my sales last week, and how do they compare with the week before?”
• “How much did we refund and discount this month?”
• “What share of orders were dine in, take out and delivery?”

Hours and days

• “What is my busiest hour on Fridays?”
• “Which weekday is my slowest?”
• “What were my best and slowest days in the last 30 days?”

Items

• “What are my best sellers by quantity this month?”
• “Which category brings in the most sales?”
• “What are my margins by item?” (margins appear only when item costs are entered in Clover)

Staff

• “Who sold the most this month?”
• “Who on the team has the highest average ticket?”
• “Who rang up the most refunds?”

Staff questions need the Employees permission on your Clover token.

Payments, tips and tax

• “What share of sales was cash, credit and debit?”
• “How much did we take in tips last month?”
• “How much sales tax did we collect this quarter?”

These need the Payments permission. Othra uses only amounts, tips, tax and payment type, never card numbers.

Weather

• “Do we sell less on rainy days?”
• “How do sunny days compare with cloudy ones?”

For a longer list of useful questions and why each one matters, see questions to ask your sales data, written for restaurants but useful for any business that sells.

What does an Othra answer look like?

An Othra answer is a short explanation built around figure cards and charts, not a wall of text. Which pieces appear depends on the question.

• The period line. Every answer shows which days it covers: the start date, the end date, the number of days and the number of orders. You always know what the figures are based on.
• Figure cards. The key numbers for your question, such as sales, orders or average ticket, each in its own card, with the period before for comparison when the period is about six weeks or shorter.
• Charts. Columns and lines for sales by day, week, weekday or hour.
• Ranked lists. Best sellers by sales or by quantity, and the best and slowest days.
• Staff bars. For staff questions, one ranked bar per employee: the rank number on the left, the name inside the bar, and the amount with the order or refund count on the right.
• Suggestions. Plain next steps the AI draws from the figures shown above them.

You can keep asking in the same chat to dig deeper. Chats are saved, and you can rename, search and delete them. Othra has light and dark themes and works in English and Turkish.

A new chat does not open empty: it starts with today's sales and orders so far, compared with the same time last week.

Can Othra make a PDF report?

Yes. Ask “make this a PDF report” or press Report, and Othra finds the subject of the conversation and writes a report on it. It does not dump the chat into a file.

The report has the Othra logo on the left and your business name on the right, then:

• a summary of the subject,
• the figures,
• charts (columns, lines, staff bars and weather),
• recommendations.

Every figure in the report comes from the saved answers in that chat, so the report never shows a number the chat did not. It is a simple way to hand a partner, an accountant or a manager the same picture you are looking at. The New York post on rain, rush hours and reports shows reports in use.

What is the statistics page?

The statistics page is a plain dashboard of your Clover numbers with no AI on it: just figures computed from every order.

Pick Today, 7, 30 or 90 days. The page shows cards for sales, orders, average ticket, items sold, refunds, tips, discounts and margin, then your best day, slowest day, busiest hour and best seller, then charts. Use it for a quick look, and use the chat when you have a question the cards do not answer.

How does the weather panel work?

Othra looks up the daily weather at your business's ZIP code for the days it reads (the last three months) and sets sunny, cloudy, rainy and snowy days side by side, so you can see how each kind of day sold.

The weather data comes from Open-Meteo. A day with at least 0.04 inches of rain counts as rainy. The app header also shows the weather right now where your business is; hover over it to see the next 24 hours and the next 5 days.

Weather matters differently in every city. See how it plays out with Austin heat and festival weekends and with New York rain and rush hours.

Is Othra safe to connect?

Othra is read only: it never creates, changes or deletes anything in your software, including prices, items, orders and settings. Here is what it reads from Clover, the system it connects to today.

Your Clover access is stored encrypted and used only for your account. Disconnecting in Othra deletes it, and deleting the token in Clover ends it. Clover is a trademark of its owner; Ordero is not affiliated with or endorsed by Clover.

Staff and tip figures are where read-only access matters most. The New Jersey post on staff, tips and refunds walks through those questions.

How much does Othra cost, and how do you start?

Othra costs $19.99 a month per business, billed by Stripe. You can cancel any time, and it stays on until the end of the month you paid for. Sample data is free.

1. Open Othra at ordero.si/connect and sign in with your Ordero account, or create one.
2. If you want to look around first, open the sample data: a made-up business (a pizzeria) with three months of sales, free.
3. In the Clover web dashboard, create an API token with Read on Orders, Inventory and Merchant. Add Payments for tips, tax and payment types, and Employees for sales by staff.
4. Paste the token into Othra with your Merchant ID. Othra checks it and connects.
5. Ask your first question. The first read of a month or more takes the longest; after that, answers come back in seconds.

Saved cards and invoices (as downloadable PDFs) are in Settings > Subscription. One-click approval inside Clover is on its way. Square, Stripe, QuickBooks, Xero, Shopify, Toast and others are shown as coming soon, with no dates yet. The full list is on the integrations section of the home page.

Who is Othra for?

Othra is for any business whose sales live in a point of sale, a payments account or accounting software, and whose owner wants straight answers without building spreadsheets. It is not only for restaurants.

• Shops and retail stores that want their best and slowest sellers, busy hours and refunds.
• Restaurants, cafés, bakeries and delis that check the numbers between services and plan around the weather.
• Salons, studios and other service businesses that want to see which services sell and who on the team brings in the most.
• Online stores, once Stripe and Shopify connect, for orders, payouts, refunds and fees.
• Owners and their accountants, once QuickBooks and Xero connect, for costs, bills and profit.
• Turkish-speaking owners in the US, who can ask and read answers in Turkish.

Today, any business on Clover can connect. Everyone else can try every feature on the sample data while their system is on the way.

Who makes Othra?

Othra is made by Ordero SI LLC in Austin, Texas. Ordero also makes AI tools just for restaurants. The Othra home page has the overview of Othra itself.

• The Ordero Voice Agent answers the restaurant's phone, takes orders from the real menu in eight languages and passes the call to staff when a caller asks.
• The Online Order System gives the restaurant its own ordering page with an AI chat that takes orders from its menu, for $50 a month.
• Ordero Mobile is the restaurant's own iPhone and Android app with loyalty.

No Ordero product takes a commission on any order. All plans are on the Ordero pricing page.