Cafés & coffee chains·
Deposits matched to card batches·Cash over/short, daily·Tips owed vs. tips paid·Repeat shortages by register·Card fees audited (Plus)·Sales tax collected vs. owed (Plus)·Gift card liability (Plus)·Payroll clearing (Plus)·Delivery payouts (Plus)·Transfers between related companies (Plus)
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Cafés & coffee chains · on top of QuickBooks Online

Reconcile daily sales at every café location.

Hundreds of small tickets a day, a cash drawer at every counter, tips on almost every card. LedgerInbox checks each café's sales file against its bank deposits and payroll every day, and shows you only what doesn't add up.

7 days free · no card · cancel anytime

What stops slipping through

Six café problems found for you.

The checks run on the exports your POS and payroll already produce. No new hardware at the counter.

/ 01

Every drawer, every day

Cash sales minus payouts against the deposit that reached the bank, per location, per day. The short days surface on their own.

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Card tips vs. payroll

Tips collected on cards against tips paid to baristas through payroll, rolled forward so a gap can't hide.

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Card batches to deposits

Each day's card batch matched to its bank deposit, including weekend and holiday settlement delays.

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Gift cards (Plus)

Gift cards sold against gift cards redeemed, so the liability on the books matches what customers still hold.

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Delivery apps (Plus)

DoorDash and Uber Eats payouts checked against their statements, missing payouts and commission changes flagged.

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Every location in one inbox

Every café's exceptions in one list. Clear them with the keyboard and categorize a supplier across all locations at once.

What's in the setup

Cafés use the restaurant books setup.

Food, beverage and paper costs, tips, merchant fees and delivery commissions, already split. Every account and vendor below is what a café client gets.

GroupAccountsVendors routed here from day one
IncomeFood sales, Beverage sales · alcohol, Beverage sales · non-alc, Catering & events, Tips collected (pass-through)—
Cost of goods soldFood costs, Alcohol costs, Paper & suppliesSysco · US Foods · Performance Food · Restaurant Depot · Costco · Sam's Club · Local farm CSA · Southern Glazer's · RNDC · Breakthru Beverage
LaborWages — kitchen, Wages — front of house, Tips paid out, Payroll taxes—
Operating expensesRent, Utilities, Merchant processing fees, Delivery platform fees, Smallwares & equipment, Repairs & maintenance, Cleaning & sanitation, Marketing & ads, Insurance, Licenses & permitsWebstaurant Store · Toast POS · Square · Stripe · DoorDash · Uber Eats · Grubhub · Ecolab · ServiceChannel · Yelp Ads · Meta Ads · Google Ads · ConEdison · PG&E · Comcast Business
EquityOwner's draw—

Questions from cafés & coffee chains

Is it only for large chains?

No. It works from one location up, and it's priced per location, so a single café pays for one.

Our cafés use Square. Does that work?

Yes. LedgerInbox reads daily sales summaries from Toast, Square, Clover, including the card, cash and tips columns.

How are tips reconciled?

Card tips in the POS summary are compared with tips paid through your payroll system, and the difference rolls forward month to month until it's explained.

What does it cost?

$40 per location per month on Core, $70 on Plus, with unlimited seats. A location is one set of books. The first 7 days are free and need no card.

See every café's missing cash.

Forward one month of sales, payroll and bank files. Free for 7 days, no card.