BOOKS

Your books, already posted

Restaurant accounting that fills itself. Sales arrive from your POS as daily journals, invoices become AP bills, and the month closes without anyone re-keying a number.

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Days to close4 daysdown from 19

Unreconciled2of 1,284 transactions

Prime cost61.2%vs 62% target

Open AP$8,410across 11 vendors

Nothing waiting on you

Yesterday's sales, tips and card settlement posted automatically at 4:12am.

A chart of accounts that fits

Beer, wine, spirits, N/A, food, comps, voids, tip liability, undeposited funds. The account list you actually use, not a generic template with “Sales” and “Cost of Sales” and a shrug.

Revenue split by category, not one lump
Prime cost accounts that match how you buy
System accounts protected from edits

POS sales post themselves

Each trading day arrives as a balanced journal entry: revenue by category, sales tax, card receipts, cash, comps and discounts.

Daily entries, not monthly guesses
Card settlement tracked to the deposit
Unsettled payments excluded, not counted twice

Invoice to bill to ledger

Scan a vendor invoice once. It becomes an AP bill, hits the ledger, and settles itself when the payment clears your bank.

One scan, no re-keying into a second system
Payments matched to bills automatically
Open AP that actually ties to the GL

Bank and card reconciliation

Cash goes drawer to safe to bank, in round numbers, whenever somebody makes a run. Books is built for that. Undeposited funds mirrors the safe instead of nagging you to zero it out.

Rules that apply themselves next time
Credit cards certified at statement close
Loans and card balances tracked in one place

Tips tracked as the liability they are

Declared cash tips, card tips and payouts move through a real liability account, so what you owe staff is never mixed with what you earned.

Cash tips reconciled to what was banked
Undeposited funds mirrors the safe
Payroll distributions tie back to the ledger

Statements and a real close

P&L, balance sheet, cash flow and trial balance from the same ledger. Close a period and it locks.

Export to Excel, CSV or PDF
Period close that prevents backdated edits
A clean trail your accountant will accept

Every statement, tied out

The numbers your accountant asks for

Plenty of restaurant tools will bucket your spending and call it accounting. This is double entry, where debits equal credits, enforced down in the database. That's the difference between a nice report and books your CPA can file from.

Double-entry, balance-enforced at the database
Every posting traces to its source document
Corrections reverse and re-post, never edited in place
Periods lock at close so history stays true

Net sales$184,920

Cost of goods$41,308 / 22.3%

Labor$71,842 / 38.9%

Net income$14,106

Ready to close

Bank, cards and AP all reconciled through the 31st.

From first login to a closed month

Connect

Link your POS and bank accounts. The hospitality chart of accounts is already there.

It posts

Sales, tips, card settlement and vendor invoices post daily without anyone touching them.

Reconcile

Match what the bank says against what the ledger says. Rules handle the repeats.

Lock the period, pull the statements, send them on.

Your history is probably already in there

Books accrues from the day you join Sidework, whether or not you've bought it. Turn it on and the back months are waiting.