topic Re: Advice on Accounting and inventory management in Enterprise & Multi-Unit Operator

Advice on Accounting and inventory management

Penjubi — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 11:04:41 GMT

Hey there,

I'm currently developing a chicken drive-thru-only concept, and we're in the process of expanding. Our aim is to reach around 40 locations, and we're currently at number 4. I'm in search of recommendations for effective platforms that can handle accounting and inventory management and be easily rolled out across the company. Right now, I'm using Margin Edge and QuickBooks. What platforms have you used in the past or currently use for these purposes?

Re: Advice on Accounting and inventory management

Rob — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 16:25:57 GMT

Some locations use XtraChef for inventory management!

Getting Started - xtraCHEF

Re: Advice on Accounting and inventory management

Penjubi — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 13:43:22 GMT

I tried xtrachef, it was a bad experience all around from support and functionality.

Re: Advice on Accounting and inventory management

Rob — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 17:24:13 GMT

Sorry to hear about your experience. Many people throughout Toast view these forums. If you could list some specific reasons or problems, this can be relayed to the proper team as feedback!

Re: Advice on Accounting and inventory management

Merannwil22 — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 20:34:02 GMT

I have 5 locations and we use PARtech's Data Central-- its quite robust and we use it for payroll and things like that to but it integrates nicely-- you'd want an above store admin probably to facilitate

Re: Advice on Accounting and inventory management

Penjubi — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 14:26:51 GMT

It doesn't read the invoices very well. I also had to scan the invoice and then go into the system to map every line item for every invoice.

The way it captured the sales data and sent the journal entries to QuickBooks was messed up, and the entries never balanced. Mostly, they never accurately captured paid-outs, credit card sales, and the associated toast fees as presented in Toast. The recipe entry is very dated, and the inventory setup is a complex one with no simple way of adjusting measure by and count by. Let's not talk about support 😅

Re: Advice on Accounting and inventory management

TerryBuster — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 21:09:40 GMT

Restaurant 365 is really good. Let me know if you'd like to discuss.