Fiscal Period/Year Setup

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 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

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: 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

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

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?

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
Add A Location Logo

Add A Location Logo

To add your company logo to print on your AR Invoices and Statements follow the steps below. 1. Create a Logo.bmp, Logo.jpg, or Logo.png file for your company logo 2. Add the logo to Locations with AR Transactions/Catering Events Open the Location Record and click on ‘Logo’   A new Pop-up will open. Select the Logo File and then click on ‘Open’.  This will attach the logo file to the location record.   Now when you print an AR Invoice or Statement the logo will show.   Note: You may have to adjust File Size or Resolution to adjust the size or clarity of the Logo. … Continued
Bank Balance vs GL Account Balance

Bank Balance vs GL Account Balance

To make sure your bank balances to the GL, you should verify that the “Statement Balance + Uncleared” value on the reconciliation report (circled in red in image below) and the GL account balance for that bank account as of the same date match.  There are a few reasons these values may not match.  When you approve a bank rec it takes a snapshot of the system as of that time so the “Statement Balance + Uncleared” value on the reconciliation report is showing the balance according to that snapshot. Reasons You Might Not Balance Example 1 “Entered a transaction after … Continued
GL Account – Available To Managers

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