The money half of the café
Gaming café accounting that closes the month into a real profit figure
An invoice register, expenses beside income, wallets on an append-only paise ledger and a monthly P&L · kept auditable and exportable, with an honest line drawn where your accountant takes over.
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An invoice register, not a shoebox
Every session and sale closes into a numbered, GST-ready invoice with its payment method, and the register exports whole · the document trail your accountant asks for in March, kept since April.
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Expenses beside the income
Rent, power, restocks and wages logged as they happen, cash and bank kept apart, and recurring costs that post themselves monthly · the half of the books most tills ignore.
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Money as a ledger, not a field
Wallet balances derive from an append-only transaction ledger in whole paise. A void is a reversal entry, a refund is a record · nothing is edited over, so the books reconcile.
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Figures that cannot drift
Prices freeze at session start and no amount is ever a float · so what the customer agreed, what the invoice says and what the report sums are the same number.
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A real P&L, monthly
Income by stream, expenses by type, profit after both · with busy-hours and custom date ranges when a question needs a closer look.
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Exports your accountant accepts
Reports and registers export to PDF and Excel whenever you want. Your data leaves cleanly · that is a feature, not a concession.
Takings are not accounts
Most café software stops at a takings total · what came in. Accounts begin where that ends: what went out, what is owed on wallets, what a void actually reversed, and what was finally kept. Respawna carries all four sides. Expenses live beside income, wallet money lives on a ledger rather than in an editable field, voids and refunds are records rather than deletions, and the month closes into profit · the number the takings total only pretends to be.
Built to be auditable, not just tidy
The design choices are an accountant's: amounts stored in whole paise so nothing rounds, an append-only ledger so history cannot be rewritten, invoices voided with a reason that stays on record, and a staff activity log that says who did what and when. When a figure looks wrong, the trail exists to find out why.
Where Respawna stops and your accountant starts
Plainly: Respawna is not a bookkeeping package. It does not file GSTR returns, run double-entry journals or replace Tally or your CA. What it does is keep the café's operational money · invoices, expenses, wallets, profit · complete, consistent and exportable, so what you hand your accountant is a clean register instead of a carrier bag of chits.
Frequently asked questions
Is Respawna an accounting package?expand_more
No, and it does not pretend to be · it will not file GST returns or replace your CA or Tally. It keeps the café's operational accounts complete: a GST-ready invoice register, expenses with categories, wallet money on an append-only ledger, and a monthly P&L, all exportable to PDF and Excel for whoever does your books.
Can it track expenses as well as income?expand_more
Yes. Expenses log with categories, cash and bank are kept apart, and recurring costs like rent post themselves monthly · so the P&L subtracts real costs rather than guesses.
How are refunds and voids handled?expand_more
As records, never edits. A void carries a reason that stays on file and a refund is a ledger entry that reverses the original · history is appended to, not rewritten, which is what makes the books reconcile.
Can I get my data out for my accountant?expand_more
Yes, any time. The invoice register, reports and the monthly P&L export to PDF and Excel, and there is no lock-in.
What does it cost?expand_more
Plans start at ₹299 a month, and every plan begins with a 14-day free trial, no card. When the trial ends you either pay to carry on or stop · nothing renews by itself, because we hold no card. Current plans and prices are on the pricing page.