Restaurant Accountant Training | Restaurant365 Customer Center

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

Gift Cards and Certificates

Gift Card Sales Gift card sales are imported from the POS each night on their respective sales tickets. This is imported as a sales item on that ticket with the corresponding category you’ve assigned in the POS. On the DSS journal entry this will credit the GL Account you’ve specified in the R365 Sales Account mapping. This is usually Gift Card Liability and as shown in the screenshot below of your sales accounts where the category is related to gift cards, that is the case. Gift Card Payments When a customer pays with a gift card this also comes over … Continued

Entering Beginning Balance Transactions

When implementing Restaurant365 you will need to input beginning balance transactions for GL Balances, Open AP Transactions, Open AR Transactions, and Unreconciled Bank Transactions. The majority of beginning balance items will be imported during the implementation process. However, after go-live you may identify some discrepancies that may require you to add some additional beginning balance transactions. To add a new beginning balance transaction for GL Balances, Open AP, Open AR, or Unreconciled Bank Items, follow the steps below. Select ‘Administration’ in the top ribbon and then select ‘New Beginning Balance’. This will open a list of available beginning balance options. Available Beginning Balance Transaction Options AP … Continued