STE Sync for Restaurants · Early access
Stop paying Synder per restaurant.
STE Sync turns daily Square and Toast settlements into clean QuickBooks journal entries — sales, tax, tips, fees, deposit. One flat price per firm. Not per client.
Founding firms lock lifetime pricing · free for the first 90 days
STE Sync vs. Synder
The difference is the billing model. Synder charges per connected client; STE Sync charges the firm.
| Synder | STE Sync | |
|---|---|---|
| Billing model | Per connected client | One flat price per firm |
| Cost — 30-restaurant firm | ~$3,600/mo | $399/mo (Practice plan) |
| Add another restaurant | Your bill goes up | Your bill stays flat |
| Built for | General SMB accounting | Restaurant bookkeeping firms |
Synder figure assumes 30 restaurants at roughly $120/client — its mid-range plan. Synder pricing is per-merchant: a bookkeeping firm managing 30 restaurants typically pays 30 separate subscriptions. The more restaurants you carry, the wider the gap.
Restaurant books are a different animal
Square & Toast settlements → QBO is manual
Every restaurant deposits a daily net settlement. Turning that back into gross sales, sales tax, tips, comps, refunds, and processing fees — by hand, per client, every day — is the job nobody wants.
Synder bills you per client
Synder runs $61–275/mo per restaurant. A firm with 30 restaurants is staring at $5,000+/mo in connector fees before anyone touches a journal entry.
Tip pools become manual journal entries
Allocating a tip pool across employees and booking the payroll liability is a recurring spreadsheet exercise that doesn't scale past a handful of clients.
Sales tax is per state, per county
Multi-location restaurants compound it — each jurisdiction needs its own QBO liability account, and Square's export doesn't map cleanly.
Monthly close eats 8–15 hours per restaurant
Most of it is data entry and reconciliation that should have been automated three POS integrations ago.
What STE Sync does
Daily sync
Square daily summary → QuickBooks journal entry
Pull the day's Square activity, split it into a clean journal entry — gross sales, sales tax by jurisdiction, tips payable, comps, refunds, processing fees, net deposit — and match it to the bank deposit. Output is a QBO-importable IIF file; no copy-paste.
One screen
Every restaurant client in one dashboard
See the month-end close status of all your restaurant clients at once. Know which books are done and which are waiting on you.
Per-firm pricing
One price for your whole book of clients
Not per-client. Add a restaurant, sync it, close it — your bill doesn't move.
Coming next
Toast & Clover sync, tip pool allocator, sales-tax mapping
Same pattern, more POS systems — plus a tip-pool allocator and automatic sales-tax-by-jurisdiction categorization, prioritized by what waitlist firms ask for first.
Planned pricing
Per firm, not per client. Waitlist firms lock the founding rate for life.
Solo Bookkeeper
$149/mo
Up to 10 restaurant clients
$75/mo for founding firms
Practice
$399/mo
Up to 50 restaurant clients
$199/mo for founding firms
Firm
$799/mo
Unlimited clients · multi-user
$399/mo for founding firms
Pricing goes live after early access. Joining the waitlist costs nothing and commits you to nothing.
Join the early-access waitlist
We're talking to restaurant bookkeeping firms before we build. Tell us about your practice — if it's a fit, you'll get early access free for 90 days and founding pricing locked for life.
Frequently asked questions
When does this launch?
We're validating demand first. If enough restaurant bookkeeping firms join the waitlist, a small group of design partners gets early access — free for 90 days — and a paid launch follows after that. We'd rather not put a hard date on it than miss one. Join the waitlist and you'll be first to know.
What if I'm already using Synder?
Most firms we talk to are. STE Sync is built to be the cheaper replacement, not a second tool. When early access opens we'll help you move clients over one at a time — nothing breaks in QuickBooks, because the journal entries post the same way — and you can run both side by side during the switch.
What POS systems do you support?
Square is first — it ships in version one. Toast and Clover follow shortly after, built on the same daily-summary-to-journal-entry pattern. Tell us on the form which POS your clients run; that ordering is driven by what waitlist firms actually need.
Does it write directly into QuickBooks?
Version one produces a QBO-importable IIF journal-entry file — the format every QuickBooks Online and Desktop accountant already knows. Direct write-in through Intuit's API is in progress as a separate track.
Is my client data safe?
StatementToExcel is built around zero data retention for bank-statement conversion — the exact wording is at /security and /trust, and STE Sync will hold its POS product to the same standard. Right now this page collects only your name, email, and a few facts about your firm — nothing about your clients.
Where are you based?
STE Sync is built by a small remote team and operated by StatementToExcel, serving US accounting firms. Customer data is processed in US-region infrastructure (Supabase us-east-1). We're not yet SOC 2 certified — that's planned once we cross $2K MRR.
Why a waitlist instead of a signup?
We're validating demand before we build. A small group of restaurant bookkeeping firms gets early access first, free for 90 days, in exchange for feedback. If the demand isn't real, we don't build it — and we won't have wasted your time.
What does founding pricing mean?
The first 20 firms off the waitlist lock a flat lifetime rate — $75/$199/$399 per month — that never changes, even when standard pricing goes up later.
STE Sync for Restaurants is built by the team behind StatementToExcel — the bank-statement-to-QuickBooks converter used by US accountants and bookkeepers.
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