Tab captures restaurant spend, receipts, and invoices at the swipe, then sends clean coded data to QuickBooks Online. Free Base plan.
Right now you're closing January's books in March. Your team is not slow, the paper is. Tab catches the spend, the receipt, and the coding at the swipe, so the books show up already done.
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That is why the books close two to three weeks after the month ends. The purchase is instant. The receipt, the coding, and the entry are not.
One charge can take three weeks to become one line in the books.
The manager swipes. Tab texts for the receipt. The photo comes back in 90 seconds on average, tied to the person, location, and account.
Your ledger still owns the books. It just stops receiving a cleanup project.
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Nobody is slow at bookkeeping. The information arrives incomplete, so the work turns into research. Tab sends it complete, and the close stops eating March.
Tab reports 85%+ higher accuracy on accounting work, because the detail is captured at the purchase instead of guessed at weeks later.
Keep QuickBooks and keep your bookkeeper. Tab handles capture and coding in front of the ledger, not the ledger itself.
Your accounting system runs on accrual. An invoice gets marked down the day it lands, whether the terms are seven days or thirty. The business runs on cash.
Tab works on the half you can control. Spend is captured and coded at the swipe, so the books reflect what actually happened sooner instead of trailing it by weeks. And each location runs its own Tab Account, so one store's cash is visible on its own.
Most growing groups end up with a bank card, a receipt app, an expense app, and a spreadsheet tying them together. Every handoff is a place a purchase can stall.
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The goal is not more software. It is fewer places where a purchase can sit for three weeks with nobody's name on it.
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Expense management that only reports last month is a history lesson. Tab sets the limit up front, then shows the spend running against it.
No form, no monthly packet, no reimbursement chase. The report is a by-product of the swipe.
That loop closes the same day, not at month-end. The person who made the purchase documents it while they still know what it was for. The time that used to go into the monthly packet goes back on the floor, in front of guests.
Bring the form your managers fill out today. The Tab team will show you what replaces it and what stays.
Asking for a photo of paper 19 days later is the whole problem. Tab asks while the person is still standing at the counter.
Tab texts and emails the cardholder as soon as the card is used. Nobody has to remember to ask.
The photo attaches to that exact transaction, so there is no matching exercise later.
Anything still open shows as Unverified, with the number of days it has been outstanding.
Add locations and cardholders and the paper piles up faster. The hard part is not reading receipts. It is matching, coding, and getting them into the books.
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Volume is where a manual process breaks. One receipt is a text message. A month of them across every location is a shift somebody has to work. Tab puts that shift back on the floor.
Invoices go missing because nobody owns them. In Tab, the invoice belongs to a purchase, and that purchase already belongs to a person and a location.
You are the eighth stop on the truck. The AC ran low all morning, so half the tomatoes show up spoiled. Miss it before that invoice gets paid and, on a five-day cash cycle, that is rent.
In Tab, the invoice lands on the purchase. The person who took the delivery is the person who flags it, not a bookkeeper opening a PDF three weeks later.
Tab's notification asks the cardholder to upload the invoice and any notes for that exact charge.
The person who bought it is the person Tab asks. There is no folder of PDFs waiting to be claimed.
On the Pro plan, Andy AI reads every invoice and vendor agreement and looks for unclaimed rebates and overpricing.
Heads up: Tab captures and codes the invoice. Vendors that take cards can be paid on the Tab card, which works anywhere Visa is accepted. What Tab does not have is a bill pay module that schedules and sends payments for you.
The typing is the cost. Tab collects the document at the source and carries the coding with it, so nobody keys the same invoice into a second system.
Figure one line item in ten comes in wrong. Short weight, a price that moved, a credit that never landed. Which in practice means every invoice has a problem, and every one deserves a look.
“It's rare to find software partners whose products fully live up to the promises made during the sales process. Tab not only met expectations but exceeded them. It's been a win for both our management and store teams.”Juliana, Owner, Heidi's Brooklyn Deli (8+ locations)
Tab maps your cards, locations, receipt prompts, and accounting handoff with you. Then live chat and email stay open, staffed by real people in the US and Canada.
Tab was founded in 2021 and works with restaurant groups from single locations up through multi-unit brands.
You do not map this alone. Tab walks your structure with you and builds it around how your team already buys.
Locations, entities, bank accounts, who buys what, and the accounting system you already run.
Cards and limits, receipt prompts, location and GL coding, and the QuickBooks Online handoff.
Most teams are set up in about one week, with the account ready for its first billing cycle.
Support does not stop at launch. Live chat and email stay open, staffed by real people in the US and Canada.
Every restaurant picks one of these four. They cost very different things, and only one of them changes where the work happens.
Reporting tools and bookkeeping services vary widely. Confirm any specific provider's pricing and terms with that provider.
Tab is strongest when the problem is not the ledger. It is everything that has to happen before the ledger sees it.
No. Tab is not a general ledger and does not replace one. QuickBooks Online is a full integration, included in the free Base plan.
Other ledgers get customizable CSV exports. You keep your books and your bookkeeper.
Both, in one place. Bookkeeping and expense management wait on the same three things: the spend, the receipt, and the coding.
Tab captures all three at the purchase, so both sides get the same record.
After a card is used, Tab texts and emails the cardholder. They open the prompt, take a photo, and add any notes.
The average text receipt submission time is 90 seconds.
QuickBooks Online is the full integration today. Other ledgers can receive a customizable CSV export, so your finance team keeps the system it already uses.
No. Tab has no bill pay module. Tab captures and codes the invoice on the purchase it belongs to. Vendors that take cards can be paid on the Tab card, which works anywhere Visa is accepted. What Tab does not do is schedule and send the payment for you.
About one week. Tab maps your locations, entities, cardholders, and accounting handoff with you, and the account is ready for its first billing cycle.
The Base plan is free. It includes unlimited cards, expense and receipt automation, unlimited cash back, and the full QuickBooks Online integration.
Pro is $150 per month per location and adds Andy AI. Groups with 5 or more locations get custom pricing.
No. Applying for a Tab Card does not require a credit check.
Set up the capture, the coding, and the QuickBooks Online handoff once, with real people helping you build it. Free Base plan, about a week to go live.
Book a call with a member of our team to learn more, get a walkthrough of our product, and if you'd like, get started with Tab.
Tab Commerce is a financial technology company providing the only finance platform built for restaurants. Learn more about us here.
We're from the restaurant industry and know time is a constrained resource. We've built our onboarding process to get you fully up and running in 10 minutes or less.
Tab cards work just like any other corporate card but with the benefits of powerful spend control software built just for restaurants.
Yes, simply add the Tab Card into your Apple Wallet like you would any other card.
Anywhere that Visa is accepted (most places). Most core vendors accept cards, but some might only be available upon request - we can help you with that.
You can create as many users as you would like with a simple onboarding process and customized roles.
You can create as many entities as you need, and manage them all from a single login.
The Tab Card gives restaurants more control and flexibility over their cash flow. Extended payment terms allows restaurants to extend eligible re-payments on their Tab Card by 30 days, providing up to 60 day terms. This is for eligible, pre-approved customers only. Inquire to see eligibility.
We provide near-instant support from real humans based in the US and Canada. Support can be accessed via live chat in the platform or by emailing support@tabcommerce.com.
Click the 'Get Started' button in the top right of this page. You'll receive an email to create your account and book a time to finish onboarding with your dedicated account rep.
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