Compeat® is a full-featured accounting and back office system built specifically for the restaurant industry. It is designed for both the single- and multi-unit restaurant operator, and both restaurants and accounting entities in the multi-unit environment. It addresses the specific needs that restaurant operators have with regard to purchasing, inventory valuation, theoretical costing, bill paying, customer house accounts, financial reporting, and many other particularities.
Compeat's features provide a fully-integrated system to acquire financial and operating information from your restaurant(s) and place that information in a centralized database at the home office. This information can then be passed onto another accounting system, if you wish.
Besides accounting and financial reporting, Compeat provides commissary A/R functionality, gift certificate accounting, and a wide variety of operating reports uniquely tailored for restaurant operators. Compeat also provides easy-to-use payroll processing as a separate program, Compeat Payroll.
Since your accounting methods are as distinctive as the food you serve, Compeat provides a multitude of setup options (covered in the Help section Setting Up Compeat) to control the way the program works for you. Compeat also provides extensive control over user access through the program's security features. Access can be restricted by restaurant and by menu choices. Each screen can be turned on or off for each defined group of users.
Compeat functions essentially the same for single- and multi-unit operations. The only real difference is that the multi-unit operator can set up an accounting entity to handle many shared accounting tasks.
In any multi-restaurant setup, the restaurants communicate with a home office. With a multi-unit Compeat installation, no program or data resides at individual restaurants; everything resides at the home office. This completely eliminates the need to synchronize recipes, inventory, financial information, or any other data.
There are some Standard Operations and Concepts, covered in this introductory section, that you should know in order to use Compeat effectively. Using This Help System provides some tips on getting the most out of this documentation.
Additional documentation is available on the Compeat Support Website.