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DineTraction Control · Powered by Hospitality Control
Know what happened. Know what to ask next.
Extra hours. Edited punches. Cash voids. Unanswered explanations. Bring the details into one restaurant workspace, then add inventory, QuickBooks budgets and forecasts, and SMS as your operation needs them.
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DineTraction Control
Your cash has a story. See the whole picture.
A busy shift can hide the details. Connect recorded cash activity, adjustments, and employee explanations so you know what to ask next.
Start with the cash sale.
Know which check and employee the activity belongs to.
Check #042 · Cash payment$85.00 recorded
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Put the details in reach
Review recorded payment activity alongside the check, employee, and business date.
Context for your review
Labor visibility / From the schedule to the punch
Small time changes.
Hours you should see.
Who was scheduled? When did they actually clock in? What changed afterward? Put the answers side by side so managers can catch avoidable extra hours and follow up before payroll.
Scheduled hours18.0 hrs
Recorded hours19.5 hrs
Beyond schedule+1.5 hrs
| Team member | Scheduled / expected | Actual punches | Extra time | Review |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Employee AServer | 4:00–10:00 PM | 4:00–11:00 PMOut changed: 10:00 to 11:00 PM | +1 hr | Edited · Review |
| Employee BLine cook | 3:00–9:00 PM | 2:30–9:00 PMClocked in 30 min early | +30 min | Early start |
| Employee CHost | 4:00–10:00 PM | 4:00–10:00 PM | — | On schedule |
01 / A changed punch stands out in red
Employee A’s recorded clock-out moved one hour later. Compare the before and after, then review the reason.
03 / Make the labor opportunity tangible
15 minutes × 8 shifts = 2 hours a day.
At an illustrative $20/hour, that is $40 a day, or $1,200 over 30 days in time to review. Spot recurring early starts and unplanned extensions, then adjust scheduling and approvals. Actual savings depend on which hours can be avoided.
Interactive illustration with fictional employees and simplified hours, not a live customer screenshot. Red highlights a change for review. Schedule comparisons depend on connected schedule and POS data.
Inside DineTraction / QuickBooks
Your numbers.
Your next move.
See the tools you’ll use to plan the month, understand the differences, and explain the outlook.
Actual product screens and exported reports with illustrative sample data. Examples are independent demonstrations, not customer results.
DineTraction ControlSample data
01 / Plan each account
Build the monthly budget
Plan by Income, Cost of Goods Sold, and Expenses. Compare prior-month activity, set account budgets, and review Intelligent Forecast estimates before saving your month-end outlook.
Make the plan specific enough to act on.
QuickBooks add-on $49/month per restaurant
Added to Control Reporting, from $197/month per restaurant. Your QuickBooks subscription is separate.
See it with your restaurant in mind Open the sample investor report (PDF)Plans and assumptions are saved in DineTraction. Actuals are read from QuickBooks when you open or refresh the plan. Projections are management estimates of accounting profit, not cash balances or guaranteed results.
The Control feature guide
Find the tool.
Understand the benefit.
Start with the reporting foundation. Add financial planning, inventory, or SMS where you need them. Provider connections and workspace permissions determine the data you can access.
39 features shown
Control ReportingDaily operations
6 features
Know where your attention is needed before the next service.
- Today live & sales pace
- Compare connected restaurant sales and the current trading pace; inspect when the source was last updated.
- Order lookup & ticket detail
- Find the transaction behind a question, including discounts, comps, voids, and refunds.
- Cash reconciliation
- Compare recorded cash with expected cash, review differences, and preserve the closeout record.
- Sales & invoicing
- Review sales and invoice activity alongside your operating records.
- Reservations
- Review connected reservation and cover information when your provider is configured.
- Location comparisons
- Switch between authorized restaurants and compare performance without mixing their records.
Control ReportingPeople & accountability
7 features
Give every exception a record, an explanation, and a next step.
- Team hub & availability
- Keep employee profiles, availability, and team access in one place.
- Scheduling & shift intelligence
- Plan shifts and compare scheduled hours with recorded work.
- Time-entry audit
- Review observed changes and imported audit evidence. Source time-entry editing remains planned.
- Explanation hub & review cards
- Request context, review employee responses, and record manager follow-up.
- Employee Pay & payroll closeout
- Review pay-related source records and closeout information before your payroll process.
- Employee cash balances
- See saved cash owed or credits and payroll settlement context; unavailable records remain unknown.
- Employee activity reports
- Connect attendance and transaction activity to a specific shift or employee.
Control ReportingReports & decisions
4 features
Bring a useful explanation to the meeting, not just a total.
- End-of-day & management reports
- Review daily results and the operating details behind them.
- Investor overview
- Present operating performance in a visual summary for ownership discussions.
- Tips & pooling
- Review tip distribution and pooling records as part of closeout.
- Report exports
- Use the export or PDF options supported by each report to share a consistent snapshot.
Inventory & purchasing add-onFood, purchasing & vendors
6 features
Understand what you bought, what you counted, and what a recipe costs.
- Purchase inbox & invoice intake
- Capture and review supplier invoices and purchased items.
- Inventory & physical counts
- Maintain stock records, count sheets, and inventory activity.
- Recipes & costing
- Save recipes and inspect ingredient costs as purchasing prices change.
- Food intelligence
- Use available product and cost information to investigate food performance.
- Vendor Vault & price trends
- Organize supplier records and review ingredient purchase-price history.
- Accounts payable tracking
- Review invoice and payment-status records without treating missing provider information as a confirmed payment.
QuickBooks add-on · $49/moQuickBooks & financial planning
8 features
Turn the books into a monthly plan and a clear conversation about what comes next.
- Financial statements
- Read connected profit and loss, balance sheet, and cash-flow reports. Choose the restaurant, period, and supported accounting basis.
- Account-by-account budgets
- Enter monthly income and expense targets, use the prior month for blank values, or copy a saved plan.
- Budget versus actual
- Refresh posted QuickBooks figures and see dollar and percentage differences, with favorable or unfavorable indicators.
- Month-end forecast
- Update your expected month-end amount for each account and explain changes with notes.
- 3, 6, 9, or 12-month projections
- Compare pessimistic, moderate, and optimistic scenarios using your own assumptions.
- Account-level assumptions
- Hold fixed expenses steady or adjust starting amounts and growth for individual accounts.
- Investor report, PDF & print
- Share visual budgets, actuals, variance drivers, forecast margins, assumptions, and account appendices.
- Saved plans & CSV
- Return to monthly plans scoped to the restaurant and accounting connection; export the account detail.
SMS Control add-onNotifications & follow-through
3 features
Bring selected exceptions to the people who can respond.
- Operational text alerts
- Configure supported cash, transaction, open-check, and overtime signals by restaurant.
- Employee reminders
- Send supported closeout and explanation reminders with a link to respond.
- Delivery & review status
- Distinguish message delivery, an employee reply, and manager review.
Confirmed during onboardingConnections & administration
5 features
Give the right people access to the right restaurant information.
- Toast, 7shifts & OpenTable connections
- Connect supported sales, scheduling, and reservation sources; available fields depend on provider access.
- Google Ads analytics & reputation
- Review connected advertising performance and reputation workflows where enabled.
- Ratatui AI assistant
- Ask questions within the access and connected context available to your workspace.
- Locations, invitations & roles
- Manage restaurant access and invite team members into their authorized workspace.
- Activity audit & recovery tools
- Use available administrative history and recovery tools to support oversight.
What is separate? Source time-entry editing is planned. Bookkeeping, managed advertising, message usage, and provider subscriptions are separately scoped. Control and its QuickBooks add-on are not included in a Marketing tier.
Build your Control estimateA closer look at your restaurant
The numbers matter.
The story behind them matters more.
Explore the questions an owner can ask in DineTraction Control. These interactive examples use fictional data and illustrative layouts, never employee or customer records.
DineTraction / ControlIllustrative demo
Base reporting
Where did the extra hours come from?
+6.5 hrsWorked beyond the scheduled hours
| Team member | Scheduled | Worked | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Employee A | 8.0 h | 10.0 h | +2.0 h |
| Employee B | 6.0 h | 8.5 h | +2.5 h |
| Employee C | 7.0 h | 9.0 h | +2.0 h |
The owner’s next move
Compare the schedule with recorded work. Ask whether the extra time covered a busy service, a missed punch, or an unapproved extension.
Schedule differences are review signals, not proof of incorrect pay.
Shift IntelligenceFictional shift · Employee B
Scheduled vs. clocked in
Scheduled4:00 PM
Clocked in3:30 PM
30 min early See where the shift started.
A time entry was edited
Before · clock-in4:00 PM
After · clock-in3:30 PMEdited
Green highlights the changed value so you can compare the original and updated time.
Illustrative views. An edited time is a change to review, not an approval.
Control the result
See what came in. Understand what changed. Act sooner.
A clearer operating picture helps managers focus on the exceptions that matter without spending the whole day digging through disconnected reports. The value comes from connecting the numbers to the transaction and the manager follow-up—not just adding another dashboard.
See what came in
Compare what the POS says should be in the drawer with the recorded cash count. A difference becomes a specific amount to investigate, rather than a surprise at month-end.
Understand what changed
Review the ticket, time, employee, and reason behind a void, refund, or discount. Context helps separate an ordinary correction from a pattern that needs attention.
Act sooner
Route selected signals to managers, request an explanation, and record the follow-up. A consistent review process helps owners see what still needs an answer.
An owner’s view
Know where the cash went.
Know what to ask next.
These sample snapshots show the questions your reports can help answer. All figures, locations, and tickets below are fictional examples—not customer results or live data.
01 / Cash reconciliation
Illustrative sampleDid the drawer balance?
Example restaurant · Dinner close
- Opening cash
- $300.00
- Cash payments collected
- + $2,480.00
- Recorded payouts
- − $180.00
- Expected cash
- $2,600.00
- Counted cash
- $2,475.00
Cash shortage to review$125.00
Needs explanationThe owner’s next question: Is there a missing payout, a counting error, or another transaction that explains the $125 difference?
02 / Exception review
Illustrative sampleWhat deserves a closer look?
Example restaurant · Selected review items
| Ticket / time | Activity | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| #10428:42 PM | Cash payment voidExplanation requested | $86.00 |
| #10879:16 PM | DiscountManager review pending | $45.00 |
| #11039:38 PM | Cash refundReason to confirm | $64.00 |
3 items for review$195.00 in activity
Activity is not the same as a loss. Review the reason and supporting details before drawing conclusions. These items do not automatically explain the drawer shortage.
03 / Location comparison
Illustrative sampleWhich restaurant needs your attention?
| Example location | Expected cash | Counted cash | Over / short |
|---|---|---|---|
| Downtown | $2,600.00 | $2,475.00 | − $125.00 |
| Northside | $1,820.00 | $1,820.00 | $0.00 |
| Westside | $2,140.00 | $2,160.00 | + $20.00 |
Focus the conversation. Review each location’s variance separately, then compare repeated differences over time. An overage at one restaurant should not hide a shortage at another.
Illustrative layouts. Report fields and coverage depend on your connected POS, available source data, and enabled modules.
Text-message alerts
You can’t watch every drawer.
Stay closer by text.
Receive selected operational alerts by restaurant so you can follow up even when you’re away from the dashboard.
- Choose the signals: cash shortages, qualifying voids, discounts, refunds, drawer activity, and risk-linked check transfers.
- Choose the rhythm: immediate processing, hourly, or every three hours for transaction activity.
- Keep the close in view: aged open-check reminders and end-of-shift summaries. Optional overtime milestone alerts help with labor oversight.
Alerts require SMS setup and enabled preferences. Timing depends on source-data updates, processing, and carrier delivery.
Show me cash controlStart with visibility. Add the control you need.
One restaurant.
Your combination.
Explore proposed monthly pricing per restaurant. Start with reporting, then choose optional modules with our team during your Control consultation.
Included foundation
$197/moControl Reporting
Operational reports, schedule comparisons, time-entry audits, and cash activity. Four users per restaurant.
Inventory, QuickBooks, SMS, and source time-entry management are separate.
Interested in a complete bundle, prepayment, or more than five restaurants? Ask for a tailored quote. Discounts and final terms are confirmed with your proposal.
DineTraction Control · By appointment
Your restaurant.
Your control plan.
Meet with Martin to discuss your operations, accounting needs, POS connections, locations, and team. We’ll confirm the right modules, scope, and pricing before you get started.
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One connected operating rhythm
Growth and control should reinforce each other.
Campaigns, calls, reviews, repeat guests, and direct demand move the restaurant forward.
Operators see the exceptions, activity, and patterns that can affect what the restaurant keeps.
A clearer operating picture helps the next marketing and management decision work harder.
Private by design
Your restaurant data is not a public dashboard.
Hospitality Control is a secure manager workspace. Public visitors can request a control review, but reporting access is limited to authorized users.