For hospitality
Nella for hospitality businesses
Friday service is in six hours. Nella already knows last week’s margin.
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How does Nella help hospitality?
Nella connects read-only to your accounting software and answers questions about the figures a hospitality operator actually runs on — gross margin, wage cost against sales, what suppliers are costing you this month against last, and how much cash is left after the week’s payments. It reads what is recorded in your books, so the answers are as current as your bookkeeping is.
What makes the numbers hard here.
Margin moves weekly
Food and drink costs change constantly, and a supplier price rise can erode gross margin for a month before anyone notices it in the accounts.
Wages against a moving line
Wage cost only means something as a percentage of sales, and that ratio shifts with every quiet week and every busy one.
Cash is lumpy
Takings arrive daily, rent and wages leave in blocks, and VAT lands quarterly. The month can look fine and still have a difficult week in it.
Nobody has time at 4pm
The people who need the number are on the floor, not at a desk with a spreadsheet open.
Questions you can ask Nella
These are asked in plain English, and answered from your own figures.
- What was my gross margin last month compared with the month before?
- How much did wages cost as a percentage of sales this quarter?
- Which supplier bill has gone up the most this month?
- How much cash will be left after next week’s payments?
- When is my next VAT return due and what period does it cover?
- Has anything unusual gone through the accounts this month?
Nella provides financial information and education, not accounting or tax advice. Nella shows you the numbers; a qualified accountant at AccTek advises you on them. When a question needs professional judgement, Nella points you to the team.
What Nella watches between your questions
- Gross margin and how it has moved month by month
- Supplier spend, including bills that have jumped against their own history
- Cash position and runway, calculated from the ledger
- VAT dates, tracked ahead of the deadline rather than at it
- Duplicate payments and unusual spend, flagged for a second look
Alerts between questions are part of Nella Paid.
What Nella cannot do
Nella connects read-only. It cannot create, edit or delete anything in your books, reconcile the bank, file a return with HMRC or Companies House, or move money. It reports what your accounting software already holds.
Nella reads what is recorded in your accounting software. If invoices are unentered or the bank is behind, the figures reflect that — the same as any report you would run yourself. Nella flags the gaps it can see rather than filling them in.
Nella connects to Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, FreeAgent. How deeply it can read varies by platform — the supported-platform table sets out what is read on each. See how your data is handled.