Restaurant Accountant Training Outline

Restaurant Accountant Training Outline

Navigation and Reports Working with Lists Accounting Reports Setting Up “My Reports” Formatting Reports General Ledger Adding a GL Account New Journal Entry Payroll Journal Entry Overview Importing Journal Entries Budgets Budgeting Overview Adding A New Budget Editing A Budget Deleting A Budget Accounts Payable Adding A New Vendor Entering AP Invoices Mass Invoice Entry Importing AP Transactions Creating A Memorized AP Transaction Entering An AP Credit Memo Manual Payment (Pay One Vendor) Check Run View Credits Button On The Check Run Check Run Field Descriptions Printing MICR Checks Company Address On Check Check Signature Printing ACH Payment Set-up Banking … Continued
To Do Lists

To Do Lists

The To Do Checklist is found in the left hand navigation under Accounting – Report – To Do Checklist.  This list displays various tabs with items that the system has flagged as requiring setup or attention.  If nothing is requiring attention on a specific tab, that tab won’t be displayed.  The To Do List has the following tabs: Record Setup – this tab shows a row for each record in the system missing required fields.  For example if a GL Account was missing GL Type then there would be a row for that account and the row would have a comment … Continued
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
Franchising Module Overview

Franchising Module Overview

The franchising module assists restaurant groups in tracking franchisees, each franchisee location, contracts, franchisee daily sales, and automates franchisee billing/ACH payment collection.  To access this module, select it from the drop down at the top of the left hand navigation pane.  Below is a brief description of the different elements of this module: Franchisee – this is the top level franchisee that may own 1 or more franchise location stores.  On this record you store details about this franchisee, how you will bill them, view their list of stores, and create and view people who are your contacts at this franchisee. … Continued
Adding A New Bank

Adding A New Bank

When setting up Bank Accounts in your General Ledger, you may need to add a ‘Bank’ to Restaurant365.  A Bank must be created for each Bank that will be represented by Bank Accounts in your General Ledger.   Create a Bank There are two ways to create a Bank in Restaurant365, the first is from the Banking menu on the top ribbon.  Hover over Banking and select New Bank The second option is to create a Bank from within a Bank Account Record that you are setting up.  First confirm that your Bank does not already exist in the system by clicking … Continued
Sales Accounts Overview

Sales Accounts Overview

Purpose and Overview: Sales Accounts are required for all POS integrations to Restaurant365 in the same way that Payment Type Accounts are. A Sales Account’s purpose is to tell Restaurant365 what GL Account to credit when accounting for individual sales tickets imported from the POS. It is a ‘mapping’ of POS Sales Categories and POS Service Types to a Restaurant365 General Leger Account. Here is a diagram & example: The Restaurant365 POS integration automatically creates unique Sales Account records (in R365) for every combination of Sales Category and Service Type from sales tickets imported from the POS to R365. Each … Continued
POS Integration Overview

POS Integration Overview

Restaurant365 integrates with many POS systems. Here is an overview what the integrations create in Restaurant365 each time it is run:   System Requirements – The machine housing the integration must have at least .net 4.0 and Internet Explorer 9. Frequency – The integration can be configured to run automatically each night. It can also be run on-demand at the end of the day by one of the store managers. Data Flow – The integration is a one-way integration from the POS system to Restaurant365. Restaurant365 does not pass any information back to the POS system. Data – The integration … Continued
What Do I Do If My POS Numbers Don’t Match Restaurant365?

What Do I Do If My POS Numbers Don’t Match Restaurant365?

Restaurant365 provides a very powerful and reliable integration with your POS system. In the rare event that your POS sales numbers don’t match the DSS record in Restaurant365, here are the steps you should take: Check to make sure the POS was closed out and completed before the Restaurant365 integration ran. If not, re-run the the integration for that day using the Import Tool. Check to see if any changes have been made to your POS. If there have been, please make us aware of these changes. Review your Restaurant 365 Sales Accounts, Payment Type Accounts and Job Titles to … Continued
Payment Type Accounts Overview

Payment Type Accounts Overview

Purpose & Overview:  Payment Type Accounts are required for all POS integrations to Restaurant365 in the same way Sales Accounts are. A Payment Type Account’s purpose is to tell Restaurant365 what GL Account to debit when accounting for individual sales tickets imported from the POS. It is a ‘mapping’ of tenders, discounts, and other offsets/reductions to the sale of goods in the POS system, to a Restaurant365 GL Account. Here is a diagram & example: The Restaurant365 POS integration automatically creates unique Payment Type Account records (in R365) for every payment & discount from sales tickets imported from the POS … Continued
Job Titles

Job Titles

This article is part of the Scheduling Module training.  Click here for more information on the Scheduling Module   Purpose & Overview Jobs are used in various ways by the system.  They are assigned to employees and used by the scheduling module.  They are also used in conjunction with the POS integration to track employee punches which make up the labor accrual journal entry.  The job form will be described directly below followed by sections describing the job’s effect on the POS integration and labor accruals.   Creating/Viewing/Editing Jobs Jobs can be created in 2 ways.  They are most often created by … Continued