Gas Stations & Convenience Stores

Protect the margin on every fuel and shelf sale

Fuel and convenience retail runs on volume and razor-thin margins, which makes the back office unforgiving. A missed price update, an unrecorded fuel invoice, or a register that never got reconciled can quietly cost a site thousands a month. We run the daily back office so your numbers stay audit-ready without adding headcount.

The hard parts

What makes gas stations & convenience stores books different

These are the places we see go wrong most often — and the first things we fix.

Margins erode silently

A pricing update that never got made, or a cost increase nobody caught, doesn't announce itself — it just quietly shrinks the margin on every gallon and every shelf sale until someone checks.

One person records and approves

In a single-site operation the same employee often enters the transaction and signs it off. That's where missing cash, duplicate vendor payments, and coding errors hide.

Daily volume, delayed reconciliation

Fuel, non-fuel, lottery, and card settlement all move daily. Left to month end, variances are impossible to trace back to the shift or invoice that caused them.

What you get

Built for how you actually operate

  • Fuel, non-fuel & lottery invoice recording
  • Margin verification against target, with pricing updates
  • Daily closing balances matched to your ERP
  • Variance investigation traced to root cause
  • Register, POS & back-office sales reconciliation
  • Vendor and store payment processing
  • Accounting software kept current — entries, ledgers, reconciliations
  • Daily cash position per site and deposit tracking
  • Per-site P&L with multi-site consolidation
  • Maker-checker review on every store entry

Software we work in

  • QuickBooks
  • Xero
  • POS & register systems
  • Fuel ERP systems
  • Bill.com

Using something else? We adapt to your stack — just ask.

Flexible pricing

from $10/hour

  • Hourly, dedicated, or fixed monthly
  • Free first-month trial
  • Onboarding in 24 hours
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How it runs

The daily back-office cycle

Your store employee handles the daily inputs. Everything after that runs on our side, with an independent review before anything is finalised — so you get more consistent oversight than one in-store employee can provide, at a fraction of a full-time hire.

1

Invoice & transaction recording

Back office

Every fuel, non-fuel, and lottery invoice logged accurately and on time.

2

Margin verification & pricing

Back office

Margins checked against target, pricing updated, and store staff notified of changes.

3

Daily closing & ERP verification

Client

Closing balances entered and matched against the ERP system every day.

4

Variance investigation

Back office

Asset and liability variances traced to root cause and resolved, not carried forward.

5

Sales reconciliation

Back office

Register, POS, and back-office sales reconciled so reported revenue checks out.

6

Payment processing

Back office

Vendor and store payments prepared accurately and on schedule.

7

Accounting & bookkeeping

Back office

Your accounting software kept current — entries, ledgers, and reconciliations.

Data controls

  • Maker-checker — the person who records is never the person who approves
  • Every store entry independently reviewed before it is finalised
  • Daily closing matched to ERP, so variances surface within 24 hours
  • Pricing checked against target margin, with store staff notified
  • Role-based access and full audit logs on every change

The dashboard behind it

This workflow doesn't run on email and spreadsheets

Every stage above is a state in a system we built and operate — data pulled and validated on a schedule, exceptions routed to a named owner, and access scoped so each person sees only their own portfolio. Nothing reaches a statement or a payment without a human sign-off.

  • Automated, validated feedsLoaders re-run safely; a failed feed shows as a red row, not silence.
  • Exceptions have an ownerAnything that breaks a rule lands on a named person's queue with a due date.
  • Access scoped in the data layerPermissions are enforced where the query runs, not just hidden in the UI.
Operations dashboard showing site counts, missing closure forms, cash pending deposit, an exception worklist and site health by market
The operations screen behind this workflow — missing day-end paperwork, cash pending deposit and the sites that need chasing. Demonstration data.
Straight answers

Gas Stations & Convenience Stores, answered

No — that's the point of the model. Your existing store employee handles the daily inputs; we handle recording, verification, reconciliation, and the books. You get more consistent oversight than one in-store person can provide, for a fraction of a full-time hire's cost.

It separates the person who records a transaction from the person who approves it. In single-site retail those are usually the same employee, which is exactly how missing cash, duplicate vendor payments, and miscoding go unnoticed. We act as the independent checker on every store entry.

Yes. We work from your POS, register, and ERP reports and reconcile them to the accounting ledger — we don't require you to change systems. Tell us what you run and we'll confirm the reporting we need.

Yes. Multi-site operators get per-site reporting plus a consolidated view, so locations can be compared on the same basis and an underperforming site is obvious early rather than at year end.

Yes — daily cash position per site, deposits banked versus expected, and any gap flagged the same day rather than surfacing at month end. Payment runs to vendors are prepared on the same cycle.

Yes. Each location gets its own profit and loss on consistent definitions, plus a consolidated group view — so you can see which sites carry the network and which need attention.

Let's talk numbers

Leave the accounting to us

Your first month is free, onboarding takes as little as 24 hours, and rates start at $10/hour. No lock-in.