Insights, guides, and best practices for hospitality accounts payable teams.
A practical 2026 buyer's guide to restaurant bill pay software. The evaluation criteria that actually matter (OCR, multi-location, COGS coding, rails, pricing), how the four main categories compare, and the red flags that kill implementations.
Duncan Abdelnour
Checks look cheap at $0.10 of stock plus a stamp. The real cost, once you add labor, fraud, float, and errors, is closer to $6-$22 per payment. A hard look at check economics for restaurants in 2026, with an interactive calculator.
Duncan Abdelnour
Restaurant groups hit a wall when AP scales past one location: separate entities, consolidated vendors, per-location approvals, inter-company allocations. A practical playbook for running bill pay across a multi-unit operation.
Duncan Abdelnour
QuickBooks Online's built-in bill pay handles basic vendor payments but breaks under restaurant-specific needs: line-item coding, multi-location, restaurant invoice OCR, and recipe costing sync. Here's where it falls short and how to fix it.
Duncan Abdelnour
Restaurant bill pay is not generic B2B AP. Thin margins, 40+ vendors, and perishable inventory change what 'good' looks like. A practical 2026 guide to the rails, workflows, and tooling that actually fit how restaurants operate.
Duncan Abdelnour
42% of restaurants were unprofitable in 2025 despite record sales. The problem isn't revenue, it's knowing where money goes. Learn how proper invoice categorization and a detailed chart of accounts turn your P&L into a real management tool.
Duncan Abdelnour
Learn IRS 1099 filing rules for hospitality businesses. Covers 1099-NEC vs 1099-MISC, contractor classification, deadlines, penalties, and automation tools.
Duncan Abdelnour
Calculate the real ROI of accounts payable automation for hospitality businesses. Includes cost breakdowns, time savings, and a framework for your own analysis.
Duncan Abdelnour
Learn how payment automation helps event producers and venues close event P&L statements in days instead of weeks. Includes a real-world 500-person event example.
Duncan Abdelnour
A practical guide to collecting W-9 forms from contractors in hospitality. Covers timing, common mistakes, digital collection, and automation tools.
Duncan Abdelnour
A breakdown of how food festivals generate revenue through ticket sales, sponsorships, vendor fees, and ancillary spending. Includes cost structures, pricing models, and real numbers.
Duncan Abdelnour
A practical guide to managing vendor payments across multiple restaurant, hotel, or venue locations. Covers centralized AP, approval workflows, and reporting.
Duncan Abdelnour
Protect your hospitality business from payment fraud. Covers fake invoices, BEC scams, vendor impersonation, dual-approval workflows, and prevention checklists.
Duncan Abdelnour
Understand the differences between same-day and standard ACH payments for restaurants, hotels, and venues. Covers timelines, costs, Nacha rules, and use cases.
Duncan Abdelnour
Streamline vendor onboarding for restaurants, hotels, and venues. Covers W-9 collection, banking setup, insurance verification, and automation strategies.
Duncan Abdelnour