Accounting and POS software for catering companies and cloud kitchens in the UAE

You buy chicken, rice, packaging and gas at prices that change week to week, but the menu price stays the same for months. Without recipe-level costing tied to real purchase invoices, you only discover a dish is losing money when the bank balance stops growing. Catering quotes for a 300-guest wedding get priced off last season's numbers and the margin quietly disappears.

Talabat, Deliveroo, Careem, Noon Food and your own website all report differently, deduct commission at different rates, and settle days or weeks later. Reconciling gross order value against net deposits by hand eats an evening every week. Missed or double-counted orders mean the VAT you declare does not match the revenue you actually earned.

A corporate client pays 50% to book, the balance after the event, and sometimes 45 days after that. Catering invoices carry service charges, delivery, staffing and equipment hire as separate lines. Keeping track of who has paid what, and which deposits are still unearned revenue, is nearly impossible in a spreadsheet.

Standard-rated food sales, zero-rated exports for a client offshore, blocked input tax on staff entertainment, imports under reverse charge — they all land in the same shoebox of receipts. Pulling a VAT return (VAT201) together from POS exports, delivery-app statements and supplier bills is stressful and error-prone, and any mismatch is your risk to carry.

Build each menu item and catering package from its ingredients once. Every time you record a supplier bill at a new price, Tallium AI re-costs the recipe and shows the current gross margin per dish, per package and per event. You can see instantly which items to reprice, resize or drop before the next quotation goes out.

POS orders, cloud kitchen channels, catering invoices and your online store post into the same accounting ledger with the right VAT treatment on each line. Match aggregator settlement deposits against the underlying orders and see commission recorded as an expense rather than lost revenue. Bank reconciliation flags anything that does not line up so gaps get caught in days, not months.

Raise a quotation, convert it to a confirmed booking, take a deposit and invoice the balance — all against the same job, with TRN details on the document. Tallium AI tracks unearned deposits separately from earned revenue and shows exactly which corporate clients are overdue. Automated reminders chase the balance so you do not have to.

Tax codes sit on every product, package and expense, so standard-rated, zero-rated and exempt items are separated as you trade rather than at filing time. Scan supplier bills with your phone and let the AI read the supplier, amount and input tax, then produce a VAT return summary that traces back to source documents. Confirm current rules, rates and filing dates with the Federal Tax Authority (FTA) or a local tax professional before you submit.