Your accountant
Necessary, but six weeks late.
Tells you what March looked like — in May. Built for filings, not for tonight's roster.
Per month
€120 – €300
Your Z-report tells you what came in. It doesn't tell you what stayed. nouz settles your covers, food cost, tips and a daily slice of rent — and shows you tonight's EBIT, tonight. Before you lock up.
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The Z-report says €2.847,40. Cool. But that's gross — and gross has never paid the rent.
Did Tuesday pay for itself? Was today a good Friday or just a busy one?
You don't know. The courier raised the milk price four cents a litre two weeks ago — was that on this delivery or next? The tip pool is on a napkin behind the till. Saturday's roster is the same as last Saturday's because nobody had time to check if last Saturday was actually busy.
You'll find out in roughly six weeks, when your accountant emails over March. By then it's already May. By then it's already May. The milk creep has been bleeding for nine weeks. The thin Tuesdays you keep over-staffing have happened seven more times.
You go home. The number you actually needed was sitting in your hand the whole time. You just couldn't see it.
Each of these is one small thing. Each one is invisible until the accountant's report lands in May. Together — for a café doing roughly €25k a month — here's what's leaking out the back door.
You scheduled for the busy Tuesday three weeks ago. The pattern shifted; you'd see it on a heatmap. ~€84 in wages on a thin day, eight Tuesdays a quarter.
€4.800/month dairy spend × 2% silent drift × six weeks before it hits the P&L = €432 you can't get back. Catch it in week one and you re-negotiate.
Your croissant ran 72% margin in January. By March, the supplier swap dropped it to 58%. 40 a day × 14 percentage points × 90 days — and nobody saw it.
Looks busy, feels good, brings traffic. On paper the food cost runs 41% and labour drops it under break-even. You'd kill it in week three with daily data. Instead you ran it for the quarter.
— Illustrative figures, modelled from real café-vertical patterns. Your version is probably worse on at least one row. nouz catches each of these the same week it happens.
You flip the closed sign. The till is reconciled. The chairs are up.
Your phone is on the counter. It already says €1.379. Today's EBIT — net of food, wages, tips, and a fair slice of rent. No spreadsheet. No "I'll look at it tomorrow." No "let me ask the accountant."
You walk home knowing what today earned. Tuesday's a question with an answer. Saturday's roster is built on what last Saturday actually did. Your accountant still files your books — but you're not waiting on her to find out how the café is doing.
That's the whole thing.
nouz is a daily P&L tracker, built for café and restaurant owner-operators. It pulls your gross from your POS, lets you tap variable costs in under 30 seconds, pro-rates your big fixed costs into a daily slice, and shows you EBIT before you lock up.
Not a replacement for your accountant — keep her. A replacement for the silence between her reports. The numbers a café actually runs on: covers, AOV, food cost %, tips, and the one number on top — did today pay.
Auto-counted from your POS. Hourly breakdown to plan tomorrow's shifts.
Average ticket per cover. Trending up since you added the pastry case.
Live per category. Target line at 30%. Drift on beans + milk? You see it before next month.
Pooled by service hour or role. Reconciled to the cent against till total. Payroll-friendly export.
Top sellers, today's covers, AOV, food cost, EBIT. The screen between rushes and after lock-up. Phone-sized, but you'll glance at the laptop on Sunday for the weekly view.
Five interactions a day. Under a minute combined. Built to survive a 6-rush Saturday and a tired 11pm close.
Courier drops the order. Photo of the invoice in 4 seconds, drop it under Expenses. nouz auto-tags it Pastries.
Phone in apron pocket. One swipe. Are we ahead of last Friday? Yes/no decision before the 12:30 surge.
Mid-afternoon. Cover count 78 vs target 110. Adjust Saturday roster by one shift — saved ~€80.
POS sends gross. Variable expenses already in. nouz settles fixed-cost slice and shows EBIT. Done.
Coffee in hand. Last 30 days as a heatmap. Tuesdays were thin. Push the "pasta-night" promo or kill it. Decide on facts.
Five honest alternatives. They all do something useful. None of them gives you today's EBIT, tonight. That's the gap nouz fills.
Your accountant still files your books. nouz fills the silence between her reports.
An accountant tells you what March looked like — in May. nouz tells you what Tuesday looked like — on Tuesday. Different jobs, both needed. She'll thank you for the cleaner data.
Connect your POS (or paste last week's Z-report CSV). Add your three biggest fixed costs — rent, electricity, payroll baseline. Done. You'll close out tonight on nouz.
If you can export a daily sales total, nouz can read it. Direct hooks below — more rolling out each month.
Hosted in Frankfurt. No data leaves the EU. Export everything to CSV in one click — every line, every invoice photo. Cancel and your data leaves with you.
One number per day. Green if you made money. Red if you didn't. The rest is one tap away if you want to know why. No charts of accounts. No double-entry. Nothing to learn.
Two staff or twelve. One till or three. If you sign the rent cheque, this is for you. Multi-location works on the same plan — sites stack into one daily view.
Contracts, multi-location, full POS list, cancellation. The fine-print questions, answered without fine print.
No. Monthly billing, cancel any time from inside the app. No phone calls, no "retention specialist", no please-don't-go email.
The 14-day free trial doesn't ask for a card — but signups after the trial do require one, so we can run the monthly charge cleanly. Cancel mid-month and you're charged a pro-rata amount for the days you used.
No. If your POS can export a CSV with daily totals — and they all can — nouz reads it. Upload once a day from your phone, or schedule an email-to-import. Same daily P&L.
Direct integrations live today: Lightspeed K-Series, Lightspeed Restaurant, Square, SumUp, Tiller/Sunday, Hiboutik. Next up: Lightspeed L, iZettle/Zettle, Hellotess, Vectron. Tell us which yours is and we'll prioritise.
Yes. Each location gets its own daily P&L. The home screen rolls them up — total EBIT today across all sites — and you can drill into any one. Marek's two-location café in Prague runs the same setup.
No extra per-location fee on the standard plan up to three sites. Four or more, talk to us about Team.
App in English, German, Italian, Spanish, French, Dutch, Czech, Polish, Portuguese. More on the way.
EU-first. Default currency Euro, with native CHF / GBP / DKK / SEK / NOK / PLN / CZK / HUF / RON. European number format throughout (€45.312,00). Week starts Monday.
nouz tracks VAT-inclusive and VAT-exclusive figures on every entry, and exports a clean monthly summary your accountant can drop into her filing software. We don't file your VAT for you — that's your accountant's lane, and we're staying out of it.
Yes. One button. CSVs for every entry, every product, every fixed-cost slice, every daily P&L. PDFs of any monthly statement. Plus the original invoice photos in a zip. Take it to a spreadsheet, take it to your accountant, take it nowhere — your call.
A spreadsheet is a blank room. nouz is a furnished one — fixed-cost daily slicing already wired up, food cost percentages already computing, POS already pulling in. You can be live tonight; the spreadsheet takes a weekend to build and is out of date the next Monday.
The honest answer: a spreadsheet can do this. We've never met an owner-operator who actually kept one up to date past month two.
Everything on the full plan. No feature locks. No "upgrade to see this." 14 days, no card, full app. If after two weeks you don't reach for it at lock-up, just walk away — we don't even email.
Eight minutes from signup to your first daily P&L. Keep your accountant. Lose the six-week wait.
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