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Updated 4 Oct 20265 min

Run a restaurant or cloud kitchen on Finocket

Dine-in, takeaway and two aggregators in one book: Zomato and Swiggy kept as customers with their commission on its own expense line, recipes kept as bills of materials (a plate cost beside the menu price is not built yet), and every bill line at the GST rate you set on the item.

Business owner

Dine-in, takeaway and two aggregators in one book: Zomato and Swiggy kept as customers with their commission on its own expense line, a recipe cost on every dish, and every bill line at the GST rate you set on the item.

What you set up

Restaurant & cloud kitchen businesses run on the Growth plan, which turns on 27 modules:

Turn any of these off if you don't need them - see setting Finocket up for your trade for the two decisions worth getting right on day one.

What you'll do day to day

A dine-in bill in ten seconds

Signed in as a staff member, open /pos. Pick 2 biryani + 1 lime soda, split UPI/cash, print or WhatsApp the bill, with each line at the GST rate set on the item.

Aggregator payout is never the order value

Signed in as the owner, open /reports/marketplace-orders. Zomato vs Swiggy: gross, commission, packaging and net payout per settlement; the gap explained line by line.

What a plate of biryani really costs

Signed in as a staff member, open /manufacturing?tab=boms. The Thalassery biryani BOM: 40 plates from 6 kg rice, 7 kg chicken, masala and oil, with the rolled-up plate cost next to the ₹320 menu price.

Kitchen production draws the store

Signed in as a staff member, open /manufacturing?tab=production. A day's cooking run consumes raw stock from the central kitchen; inventory drops by exactly the recipe.

An honest close, every night

Signed in as a staff member, open /pos/z-report. Dine-in and takeaway counters close separately: float, UPI, cash and over/short.

Catering pipeline to invoice

Signed in as the owner, open /deals. Kakkanad Tech corporate lunch moves from tasting to advance received; the advance lands as a receipt.

A Kochi restaurant and cloud kitchen that reconciles every aggregator payout

Before: Zomato and Swiggy settle net of 20-22% commission, the kitchen never knew what a plate cost, and the counter and aggregators were two different books.

With Finocket: Dine-in bills, takeaway and both aggregators land in one book; recipe BOMs cost every dish; kitchen production draws the stores.

(Kayal Coastal Kitchen, a demo restaurant & cloud kitchen workspace in Kochi, Kerala - not a real customer.)

Next

See how Finocket fits your trade for the same use cases with the case study in full, or bring your existing books across if you're switching from another system. Running this on a phone at the counter and a desktop at month-end? See what each device is best for.

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