AI bookkeeping software for restaurants & food businesses
Run the kitchen. Tabby runs the books. Tabby tracks food costs. Tabby matches deposits. Tabby tracks every bill.
- Free plan forever
- Set up in about 3 minutes
- Read-only, bank-level security
Built for independent food businesses
Trusted by 5,800+ businesses
I wish I found out about Tabby sooner. As a real estate agent I always ignored bookkeeping because I had no time for it. But now Tabby does all of this work for me.
- DIY bookkeeping vs. Tabby
Card, cash and delivery apps. Stop matching them by hand.
- Match card & delivery-app deposits2 hrs
- Sort food & beverage costs2 hrs
- Track vendor bills & due dates1.5 hrs
- Hunt down invoices & receipts1.5 hrs
- Split personal vs business1 hr
- Reconcile accounts2 hrs
- Matched automaticallyAutomatic
- Categorized, 99% accurateAutomatic
- Tracked by due dateAutomatic
- Snapped or found in emailAutomatic
- Separated automaticallyAutomatic
- Reconciled nightlyAutomatic
- Inside Tabby 2.0
Your whole restaurant back office. One simple app.
Client income, profit, unpaid invoices and what needs you today, on one calm screen.
- How it works
Tabby does the work. You just say yes.
01
You approve. You don't do.
- Payments matched to invoices
- Personal charges flagged
- Learns from every answer
02
Hand off busywork in one sentence.
- 35 ready-made tasks
- Type it or say it
- Nothing sent without your OK
03
Never lose track of a vendor bill.
- Supplier bills tracked by due date
- Food and beverage costs categorized
- Missing invoices flagged
- Time and money back
Tabby pays for itself. Usually in the first month.
What do your books really cost you?
Set your numbers. Estimates are fine.
kept in your pocket by switching to Tabby
Directional estimate. Tabby's cost uses first-year pricing (50% off for 3 months) plus the ~20% of time you'll still spend approving. Tabby automates ~80% of repetitive bookkeeping.
- Mobile first
Your business doesn't sit at a desk. Neither does Tabby.
- Why you can trust it
An accountant's judgment. A bank's security.
Ahad Ali, CPA
Co-founder, Tabby · Bronx, New York
12+
1,500+
CPA
Your money stays yours
Read-only access
Tabby can see transactions. It can never move money or charge a card.
AES-256 encryption
In transit and at rest. Your bank login is never seen or stored.
Connected through Plaid
The same secure connection trusted by thousands of financial apps.
Your data, portable
Export to CSV, QBO or PDF anytime. No lock-in, ever.
- How Tabby compares
QuickBooks was built for accountants. Tabby was built for restaurants and food businesses.
| Feature | Tabby 2.0 | QuickBooks | Wave | Xero |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI that does the work | ||||
| AI categorization that learns from you | Partial | Partial | Partial | |
| AI deduction discovery | ||||
| Hand off tasks by voice or text | ||||
| Everyday bookkeeping | ||||
| Automatic bank sync | ||||
| Invoicing with card & ACH payments | ||||
| Multiple LLCs under one login | Separate subscriptions | Partial | Separate subscriptions | |
| Built for owners | ||||
| Built for non-accountants | Partial | |||
| Mobile-first experience | ||||
| Designed with a licensed CPA | ||||
| Free plan, no card required | ||||
- Pricing
Start free. Pay when Tabby pays for itself.
Best fit: Standard
- Up to $15K/yr tracked expenses · 1 bank connection
- 10 Tabby Talk AI credits
- 1 user · no accountant
- 5 invoices/month · collect via ACH & card
- AI categorization & auto vendor recognition
- Mobile app & self-serve AI chat support
- Up to $200K/yr tracked expenses · 3 bank connections
- 250 Tabby Talk AI credits · unlimited invoices & estimates
- 1 user + 1 accountant seat
- Vendor management & custom categories
- Tax-ready reports · Excel & PDF export
- Ramp & Stripe integrations
- Up to $400K/yr tracked expenses · 6 bank connections
- 450 Tabby Talk AI credits
- 3 users + 1 accountant seat
- Split transactions · AI chart of accounts · sub-ledgers
- Classes (up to 10)
- Human chat + email support
- Unlimited expenses, banks & users + 2 accountant seats
- 750 Tabby Talk AI credits
- Unlimited Classes
- Consolidated multi-entity & general ledger reports
- Live onboarding call with our team
- Priority support
Every plan includes AI categorization, the mobile app, Plaid bank connections and 256-bit encryption. Tabby's fees are tax-deductible. Compare all plans →
Yes. Tabby is AI bookkeeping software built with a licensed CPA for independent restaurants, cafés and coffee shops, caterers, food trucks, bakeries, personal chefs and bars. It matches sales deposits, categorizes food and supply costs, tracks vendor bills and keeps tax-ready books.
Tabby connects to your bank and card accounts through Plaid, so payouts from your POS, card processor and delivery apps like DoorDash and Uber Eats are captured as they land and categorized automatically.
Yes. Tabby categorizes food, beverage and supply purchases separately, so you can see what you spend against sales every month and catch rising costs early.
Tabby captures cash when you deposit it and categorizes it as sales. You can also log cash income manually.
Yes. Tag transactions by location, event or catering job and Tabby applies it to similar transactions, so you can see profit for each one.
Very little. Tabby categorizes, matches, reconciles and chases on its own. Anything it isn’t sure about goes into a short review list with a suggested answer, which most people clear in about ten minutes a week. Every choice is remembered, so the list shrinks over time.
Tabby cannot move money. The Plaid connection is read-only, Tabby never sees or stores your bank login, and your data is encrypted in transit and at rest with AES-256.
Tabby is free for up to $15K a year in tracked expenses, no credit card required. Paid plans are Standard at $30/mo, Pro at $50/mo and Growth at $90/mo, each 50% off for your first 3 months, with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Tabby’s fees are tax-deductible.
You run a kitchen. Not a back office.
- Free plan forever
- 30-day money-back guarantee
- Cancel anytime