For restaurants, cafes and food trucks
Bookkeeping for restaurants, cafes and food trucks, done from your statements
Drop in the statements and exports restaurants, cafes and food trucks already have. ProfitBooks categorizes every transaction, tracks the deductions that matter for your work, and hands your tax preparer a clean profit and loss. $20 a month, billed annually, plus pay-as-you-go credits.
100 free credits at signup, 10 free every day. No card required.
What you upload
- Checking statement
- POS sales reports (Square, Toast, Clover)
- Food and beverage supplier invoices
- Delivery platform statements (DoorDash, Uber Eats)
What gets categorized
- Food and beverage sales
- Delivery platform fees
- Cost of goods
- Payroll
- Rent and utilities
- Supplies
Deductions to look for
- Cost of goods
- Payroll and tips reporting
- Rent
- Equipment depreciation
- Delivery commissions
- Licenses and health permits
Why it fits
Built for the way restaurants, cafes and food trucks actually run money.
Income arrives from a few sources, expenses land on one or two cards, and nobody has time to categorize 12 months of it in April. ProfitBooks reads the statements, learns your vendors, and keeps the profit and loss current so quarterly taxes stop being a guess.
- Chart of accounts built for your industry from one question
- Confidence threshold: auto-finalize the obvious, review the rest
- Year-end totals by category, ready for Schedule C or your preparer
- Need a reconciled balance sheet? Full Books, $99 a month billed annually, replaces the bookkeeper
Pricing
What restaurants, cafes and food trucks pay
About 400 transactions a month is 4,800 a year. The free daily credits cover 3,650 of them. The remaining 1,150 cost about $259 at the best bundle rate, so roughly $499 a year all in. Xero Growing alone is $660 a year, before a bookkeeper.
FAQ
Questions, answered
Do I need to connect my bank?
No. Download the PDF statement from your bank or take a photo of it. ProfitBooks reads it. No logins shared, no feeds to babysit.
What does it cost for restaurants, cafes and food trucks?
About 400 transactions a month is 4,800 a year. The free daily credits cover 3,650 of them. The remaining 1,150 cost about $259 at the best bundle rate, so roughly $499 a year all in. Xero Growing alone is $660 a year, before a bookkeeper.
Can my tax preparer use it?
Invite them free. They see the same profit and loss and ledger you do (and the reconciled balance sheet on Full Books), and can export CSV for their software.
We have a lot of transactions. What does it cost?
A restaurant with 400 bank and card transactions a month would use the 10 free daily credits and buy roughly 1,150 credits a year, about $259 at the best bundle rate, plus the $240 base plan. Use the calculator for your own numbers.
Your books for restaurants, cafes and food trucks, done tonight.
Create a free account, drop in a bank statement, and watch every transaction get categorized. 100 free credits to start, 10 more every day. No card required.
Takes about 90 seconds. No sales call, no onboarding fee, no contract.