Colin Blair | Restaurant365 Customer Center

Parent Accounts & Child Accounts

GL Accounts can have a specified Parent Account (effectively making them a Child Account). Parent Accounts allow users to group Sub-Accounts under one main Summary Account for subtotal and visual grouping on Financial Reports. To assign a Parent Account to a GL Account, select the Account Name of the desired Parent Account on the GL Account Record A Parent Account can have as many Child Accounts as desired. Restaurant365 will support up to four levels of Parent/Child Accounts. For example: 1) Labor 2) –> Hourly Labor 3) –> –> BOH 4) –> –> –> Kitchen Child Accounts will be indented … Continued

GL Types

GL Types, or rather General Ledger Types, are predefined groups for GL Account Records. GL Types are used for the sorting, grouping and subtotal of GL Accounts on Financial Reports (Balance Sheet and P&L). GL Type is a required field on the GL Account Record. GL Type Presets GL Types are customizable to meet the reporting needs of your organization. Restaurant365 has the following GL Type presets: Create GL Type To create a GL Type, a User with the Accounting Manager Security Role can hover over the Account options on the top ribbon and select ‘New GL Type’. This will open up a … Continued

Bank Account Record

GL Accounts can also be classified as Bank Accounts by checking the ‘Is Bank Account’ checkbox on the GL Account Record. Click here for more information on GL Account Records. To create a new Bank Account, please see the Add a New Bank Account training. When a GL Account is identified as a Bank Account, the GL Account will appear in the Bank Accounts List view (located under Banking in the Accounting Module), additionally the GL Account will be made available on the Bank Activity and Bank Reconciliation screens. Click here for more information on Bank Activity, and Bank Reconciliation. The checkbox highlighted … Continued

GL Account Record

The GL Account Record is where the Account specific information for each of the GL Accounts resides in the system. Once you have opened a GL Account Record, the General Tab of the record will be displayed. In addition to the information found on the General tab, the Transactions, and Report Settings tabs are available to users. To create a new GL Account, please see the Add a New GL Account training. Click the button below to download an example General Ledger populated with recommended Account Names, Account Numbers, Cash Flow Categories, Operational Reports Categories, and Parent Account from the National Restaurant Association … Continued

GL Account – Disable Entry

If a GL Account is going to be a true Summary Account, we can Disable Entry for the account. The values in the account going forward will only be a sum of the Child Accounts that are associated with the Parent (disabled) Account. For accounts that have Disable Entry enabled, the Account Name / Number will no longer show up in any Account Selector dropdowns in the system. The Account will be disabled for direct entry for all transactions (this includes importing Journal Entries that post directly to this Account). This is accomplished on the GL Account Record via a Check/Unchecked setting on … Continued

GL Account – Available To Managers

If non-Accounting users (Users with the security role of Restaurant Manager) need access to a GL Account, that Account must be flagged as Available to Managers. As non-Accounting users do not have access to the Accounting Module, they will never see the General Ledger in its entirety, nor will they have the access to open a GL Account Record to view GL Transactions. However, it will be necessary for Restaurant Managers to have limited access to some GL Accounts for Invoicing, and DSS Review For Accounts that have Available to Managers enabled, the Account Name / Number will be made available in … Continued

Print 1099 Forms

Restaurant365 can create and generate 1099 forms for your 1099 Vendors (Vendors you pay in excess of $600 in a calendar year). 1099 Vendor Setup To use the 1099 Form feature, the Vendor must first be established as a 1099 Vendor. To do so, open the Vendor Record, and navigate to the Vendor Additional Info tab. Select the correct 1099 box in the dropdown, and enter the Tax ID information for the Vendor. Click here for more information about Taxpayer Identification Numbers (TIN) from IRS.gov. Blank 1099 Stock 1099 Forms are available from the IRS free of charge (4 to … Continued

Payment Terms

Payment Terms are used throughout Restaurant365 to specify the Terms in which a payment should be received. There are five Payment Term Pre-sets that exist when the system is created. Apart from those five payment terms, users will need to create and manage the Payment Terms necessary for their organization. Create Payment Terms To Create a new Payment Term, hover over Administration on the top ribbon, and click New Payment Term. Additionally you can type in the name of a Payment Term in any Payment Terms selector boxes (on Customer, AP/AR Invoices etc.) and if the record does not exist, … Continued

Customer Record

The Customer Record is where the Customer specific information for each Customer resides in the system. Once you have opened a Customer Record, the General Tab of the record will be displayed. In addition to the information found on the General tab, Customer Additional Info, Customer related Open Transactions, Customer related All Transactions, Customer related Contacts, and Customer Locations are available to users. Additionally, for those using the Franchising Module, Franchisee Additional Info will also be made available on Customers identified as Franchisee Location Customers. To add a new Customer, hover over the Customer tab in the top ribbon, and click New Customer. This will open up a new tab with … Continued

DSS Journal Entries

For POS Integrated Locations, a Daily Sales Summary (DSS) file will be imported each day for the prior day’s Sales and Labor. Click here for more information on the Daily Sales Summary. In addition to the DSS file being imported each day, two DSS Journal Entries are created from the data on the DSS. DSS Journal Entry Walkthrough To demonstrate where DSS Journal Entries are located, how you can view them, and how you can update and approve them, please read the following walkthrough: Record Locations: Daily Sales Summary Before any DSS Journal Entries will appear, the DSS must be imported. This is … Continued

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