CooksTime review
Restaurant-focused bookkeeping with food-cost tools, POS connections and multi-location accounting.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
CooksTime brings accounting and restaurant operations together for restaurants, bars, nightclubs, franchisees and restaurant groups. It covers automated bookkeeping, accounts payable, bank feeds, POS connections and financial reporting, alongside inventory management, recipe costing, food and alcohol waste tracking, and employee scheduling. Mobile access and AI-powered financial and operational insights broaden the scope beyond bookkeeping. Its combination of finance and food-cost operations is most relevant to teams that want those workflows connected; businesses seeking accounting alone may find the wider operational focus unnecessary.
The published plans are organized by restaurant type and subscription period. Bars & Nightclubs costs $189 per month with monthly billing, $169 per month quarterly, or $149 per month annually. Full Service Restaurants costs $249 monthly, $199 quarterly, or $179 annually. Family Style/Food Only is listed at $219 per month on monthly billing and $158 per month annually. The lowest ongoing listed price is $149 per month with annual billing, and there is no free plan. Plans share the listed basics—automated bookkeeping, AP, bank feeds, POS connection, financial reporting and a mobile app—so buyers should compare the restaurant-type pricing and billing commitment rather than assume a different feature set from the plan names.
Ecosystem fit is practical for operators already using Square or Toast for POS, or Sysco, US Foods, Fintech or Ben E. Keith in purchasing and related workflows. Web, iOS and Android access, plus multi-location and parent-level accounting, make the product relevant to groups managing more than one venue. The trade-off is cost, especially for a single-location operator with a narrow bookkeeping need, and the listed support channel is email. CooksTime is a stronger fit when recipe costing, waste tracking and restaurant-specific accounting matter together; a business that needs basic books without those operational tools should compare narrower accounting options.
CooksTime pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Automates bookkeeping, accounts payable and bank feeds.
- Combines recipe costing and waste tracking with inventory management.
- Supports POS connections, multi-location reporting and parent-level accounting.
- Where it doesn't
- No free plan; annual subscriptions start at $149 per month.
- Monthly plans range from $189 to $249 per month.
- Listed support is limited to email.
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