Cash and settlement
reconciliation
The drawer either holds what the day says it should, or it does not. Restaurant Daily makes that a number you see the same evening.
Get startedWhere the day goes unaccounted
The drawer is counted once
One person counts, one total gets written down, and nobody can reconstruct it the next morning. A small difference each day stays invisible because no single day looks worth investigating.
Payouts leave no trail
Cash goes out for a vegetable run, an autorickshaw, a plumber. The slip is in someone's pocket. By closing time the drawer is short and the reason is a memory.
Deposits are assumed, not checked
Money leaves for the bank and is treated as banked. Without a reference number against each trip, a delayed or partial deposit only surfaces on the statement weeks later.
How the day close works
Open the session
A staff member opens the day with the cash already in the drawer as the opening balance.
Log what moves
Petty cash vouchers as money goes out. Banking deposits as trips are made, each with bank and reference.
Count and enter
Tally the drawer by denomination at close, and enter the day's cash sales.
Submit the close
Expected against counted gives the variance. Add a note, submit, and the day is on record.
What the close covers
Denomination tally
Count the drawer note by note instead of writing one total. The tally is stored with the close, so the figure can be reconstructed later.
Petty cash vouchers
Every rupee paid out of the drawer is a voucher against a category, entered by the person who paid it. Vouchers subtract from the expected closing figure.
Banking deposits
Each banking trip is logged with amount, bank, and reference number, marked as cash, UPI settlement, or card settlement. Cash deposits reduce what the drawer should hold.
A frozen record
Submitting the close writes the day's figures once. Corrections come as new entries with their own trail, so the original numbers stay readable.
What this does not do
Restaurant Daily does not match POS totals against collections payment type by payment type. UPI and card money is visible where it lands in the bank, as a logged settlement deposit, not as a per-transaction match.
There is no Swiggy or Zomato reconciliation, and no per-platform figure in the daily close. To check a platform payout against what it should have been, the aggregator payout calculator is free and needs no account.
What is here is the cash side, done properly: counted, attributed to a named person, and closed the same day. Most of the difference an operator cannot explain at month end starts in the drawer.
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