Deposits booked as sales
The bank shows what the platform paid you, not what customers paid. Revenue is understated, the commission cost disappears, and your HST return is built on the wrong base.
We book gross sales and the real fees
Specialty practice
Restaurant books that survive the delivery apps.
Uber Eats, DoorDash and Skip pay you in lump sums, days later, net of 15 to 30% in fees. Book those deposits as sales and your revenue, your HST and your food cost are all quietly wrong. We reconcile every platform, gross to deposit, every month, and run tipped payroll the way the CRA expects.
Uber EatsDoorDashSkipRitualSquareToastTouchBistroLightspeed
Where restaurant books go wrong
Three quiet errors, one messy year-end.
We see the same three in almost every restaurant file we review. None of them look like problems until CRA, your banker or your accountant asks a hard question.
Tips handled by vibe
Card tips pooled and paid out without CPP, EI or withholding. It feels generous until a payroll review reclassifies them as controlled tips, with arrears owing.
Controlled vs direct tips set up properly
Food cost you can't see
Supplier invoices lumped into one account, no period cut-off, no gross margin by month. You find out margins slipped when the bank balance says so.
Food & labour % on every monthly report
The core problem, on one screen
One delivery week, unpacked.
The deposit is the last line of this story, not the first. Your sales are what customers paid, the commission is a real expense with a claimable input tax credit inside it, and HST is owed on the gross sale, not the deposit.
We rebuild this bridge for every platform, every payout, and tie it to your POS. That is what makes the P&L, the HST return and your food cost percentage all agree with each other.
Read the delivery payout guide →Uber Eats · weekly payout
Customer orders · food + HST$9,506.13
Platform commission & fees (30%)-$2,851.84
Platform marketing you ran-$203.40
Deposit that hits your bank$6,450.89
Your real sales, on the books$8,412.50
HST collected, tracked for filing$1,093.63
Book only the deposit and this week's revenue is understated by $2,055, the commission cost is invisible, and both sides of the HST return are wrong.
What we handle
The full restaurant back office.
Everything below is included in one flat monthly price, sized to your volume.
Delivery platform reconciliation
Every Uber Eats, DoorDash and Skip payout bridged from gross orders to bank deposit: sales, commissions, fees, marketing and pass-through tips each landing in the right account.
POS-to-bank tie-out
Daily sales from Square, Toast, TouchBistro or Lightspeed agreed to processor deposits and the bank, so cash, card and delivery never drift apart.
Tipped payroll
Controlled tips through payroll with CPP, EI and withholding; direct tips left where they belong. Part-timers, split shifts and T4s handled without drama.
HST from verified numbers
Returns built on reconciled gross sales, with input tax credits captured from platform fees, rent and supplier invoices. You approve, we file, on time.
Food & labour cost reporting
A monthly package with the two numbers that decide whether a restaurant survives, tracked consistently and flagged when they drift.
Franchise reporting
Royalty and ad-fund charges booked correctly and franchisor sales reports delivered in their format, on their calendar. Ask us about multi-store rollups.
What it costs
Most single-location Toronto restaurants land between $700 and $1,100 per month, flat, including QuickBooks, HST filing and platform reconciliation. Heavy volume or multi-location is quoted in writing, per store.
Restaurant FAQ
Asked by every owner we meet.
Yes, that is the core of our restaurant practice. Each platform is reconciled from gross customer orders down to the deposit that hits your bank: sales, HST collected, commissions, platform fees, marketing spend and tips passed through. Your books show real revenue and real platform cost, not just a net deposit.
Tips your business controls, for example card and POS tips pooled and paid out through you, are generally controlled tips: pensionable and insurable, so CPP, EI and withholding apply and they belong on the T4. Cash handed directly to staff is a direct tip and is the employee's to report. We set payroll up so each stream is handled correctly, and our tips guide explains the difference in plain language.
Most single-location restaurants land between $700 and $1,100 per month flat, depending on volume, platform count and whether payroll is included. That covers QuickBooks Online, monthly reconciliation, HST filing and reporting. No hourly billing, no surprise invoices.
Yes. Catch-up is a one-time project, quoted in writing after a free file review: we rebuild the months from bank, POS and platform records, prepare overdue HST returns and bring payroll current, then the monthly service keeps you there. The sooner overdue returns are filed, the sooner penalties and interest stop growing. See catch-up bookkeeping.
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We'll show you what's misbooked.
The free 30-minute review checks your delivery reconciliation, tips and HST treatment, and you keep the written findings either way.
On a call or in person · no passwords · findings are yours either way