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Creating a New Budget

This article will describe the steps necessary to create a new Budget using the Advanced Budgeting feature in Restaurant365. Click here for more information on Budgeting Creating a New Budget To begin the process of creating a new Budget, hover over the Account menu and selected ‘Budget’ Upon selecting Budget, a new tab will open where the Budget Parameters will be set prior to creating the Budget Budget Parameters Budgets can be created and saved with the following parameters: Current and future years Single Location or multiple Locations By Period or Week Using the Fiscal or Operational Calendar Budgets … Continued

Paying Your Credit Card Bill

If you have a Credit Card Bank GL Account setup to pay expenses you will need to record the payments to the appropriate accounts within Restaurant365 to allow for ease of matching during your ‘Bank Activity/Bank Reconciliation’ process. There are two options in Restaurant365 to accomplish this. Option 1 – Credit Card paid with Auto Pay. If your Credit Card bill is paid with Auto Pay you will need to record a ‘Bank Transfer’ (Banking>>Transfer). A new Window will open titled ‘Bank Transfer’. The ‘Number’ field will be auto populated, ‘Transfer From’ is the Bank Account used to pay … Continued

Bank Reconciliation

A Bank Reconciliation is a period end (or month end) procedure used to ‘true-up’ the records in your accounting system to the actual activity in your bank account (as reported by your bank.) Step 1: Make sure to have a copy of your bank statement or online statement ready. Step 2: Begin a new reconciliation Step 3: Match the transactions in Restaurant365 with the ones one your statement until the indicated difference is 0 Step 4: Make sure all the voided transactions are cleared from your reconciliation. Step 5: Approve and print the reconciliation Step 1: Before beginning your reconciliation, … Continued

Fiscal Period/Year Setup

Overview Fiscal periods must be setup for each year by creating a Fiscal Year for each legal entity. Different legal entities can run on different fiscal years. Within each legal entity you can have a Financial Year different from your Operational Year if you want to run operations reports using different setup than you might report to the bank or investors. This is common for companies that run financials on a calendar year but want to do operational analysis on weeks and across equal periods. To accomplish this, setup your fiscal year as Calendar and operational year as 13-4 week … Continued

Franchisee Billing Process

Franchisee Billing is the process you can run to auto-create AR Invoices to bill each of your franchisees for fees incurred in a specific date range. If the franchisee is setup for ACH payment then this process also creates an ACH payment applied to the invoice and an ACH export file that can be uploaded to the bank to transfer the money from their account to yours. To start the process click Franchising – Franchisee Billing in the top ribbon. The fields on this form are as follows: Invoice Date – date to be set as the date of the AR … 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

Documents to Process: Supported File Types

Documents to Process allows Restaurant365 Users to import various files for immediate processing, or processing at a later time. Acceptable file types include the following: Document Files PDF File (.pdf) – Scanned Documents saved as PDFs / Original PDF Invoices Word File (.docx) – Scanned Images saved inside a .docx / Original Word Files (Note: .doc / Word ’97 files are not supported) Image Files JPG Image (.jpeg / .jpg) – Image files PNG Image (.png) – Image files CSV Files Supported Vendor Integrated .csv files will be imported directly to the All Transactions list, bypassing Documents to Process. Please refer … Continued

Completing and Updating Budgets

This article will describe the steps necessary to complete a New Budget, or update an Existing Budget using the Advanced Budgeting feature in Restaurant365. Click here for more information on Budgeting Completing / Updating Budgets After a Budget has been successfully created, Users can begin the process of filling in the Budget / updating the Budget. Entering / Updating values in to Budgets can be accomplished using the following methods: Manual Update Export / Excel Update Manual Update Single Location Budget Budgets that include only a single Location can be updated on the main Budget screen by single-clicking in to the desired … Continued

Recording American Express AMEX Charges

Step 1: Record your AMEX Charges Option 1: To record an individual invoice received for a specific vendor that you put on your AMEX card Create an AP Invoice for the vendor for the amount of the invoice. Next, Use the ‘Pay Bill’ Function to create an AP Payment. Click on ‘Pay Bill’ in the top Ribbon. A new window will open. Select the appropriate ‘Payment Date’ and click on ‘OK’ A new window will open. Select your AMEX account as the ‘Bank Account’ and click on ‘OK’ A new window will open. Since we we are not actually going … Continued

Where can I see my Bank Account Balance?

You can see your bank account balances in a few different places in Restaurant365. 1. GL Account Detail Report 2. Check Register Report 3. On Bank Transaction screens 1. In ‘My Reports’, under Financials, there is a GL Account Detail report. Here you can see deatils and the balance as of the date the report is run for. 2. In ‘My Reports’, under Banking, there is a Checkbook Register report. Here you can see the recent detail and current balance.Then run the Check Register Report 3. When you open an new bank transaction (Withdrawal, Transfer, Deposit), the current balance is shown … Continued