The reconciliations nobody automates.

Three teardowns of the restaurant close, written for the person doing it. Every one carries the actual journal entries, the month-end proof, and what it costs a client when the step gets skipped. No gated PDFs.

1. Toast cash over/short in QuickBooks

   The daily math, the journal entries, and why a drawer shortage hides between the POS, the paid-outs and the deposit slip.

   If you close cash by eye, or not at all · updated July 2026
2. Tip liability journal entries, correctly

   A credit-card tip is someone else's money on your client's balance sheet. Accrual, payment, and the rollforward that proves the account.

   If 2210 has never been reconciled · updated July 2026
3. What Shogo can't reconcile

   Shogo and Bookkeep post the daily sales entry accurately. This is what a sales entry structurally cannot see — and where its job ends.

   If your clients already run Shogo or Bookkeep · updated July 2026

Why these three

A restaurant's books break in the same three places every month, and all three are invisible to the bank feed. Cash never reaches the bank in the amount the POS says it should. Tips sit on the balance sheet as someone else's money until somebody proves the account. And the daily sales entry — however accurate — describes what was sold, not what was collected. Each guide takes one of those and closes it.