Practical guides on fuel reconciliation, tax strategies, and store-side margins, written by the team that does this every day.
Operations & Bookkeeping
EBT sales are not paid like card sales, and they follow their own rules. Here is how to record them, match them to depos...
Operations & Bookkeeping
Your POS says one thing and your bank says another. This routine shows how to tie sales, tenders, deposits and fees toge...
Operations & Bookkeeping
Fuel payments, sales tax, payroll and loan payments do not arrive when sales do. A 13-week forecast shows when cash will...
Operations & Bookkeeping
Inventory is cash sitting on a shelf. This guide covers how often to count, how to order, how to handle DSD deliveries a...
Operations & Bookkeeping
Your profit and loss says the store made money, but the bank balance says otherwise. The gap is rarely missing money. It...
Operations & Bookkeeping
Your bookkeeper can only reconcile what they can see. This is the short list of reports, from the back office, the regis...
Operations & Bookkeeping
QuickBooks works well for a gas station when the setup reflects how a station runs: separate streams, clearing accounts...
Operations & Bookkeeping
Hiring a bookkeeper gives you control. Outsourcing gives you coverage and specialist knowledge. Many stations do best wi...
Operations & Bookkeeping
A register that is a few dollars off is normal. A register that is off in the same direction every week is not. Here is...
Operations & Bookkeeping
A daily cash report compares what the register says you sold with what you collected and deposited. Done every day, it c...
Operations & Bookkeeping
A month-end close is the routine that turns a month of sales into numbers you can trust. Here is the order to do it in f...
Operations & Bookkeeping
There is no flat price for gas station bookkeeping, because the work grows with the number of stores, fuel lines and ban...
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