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. Type tonight's gross, tap the day's variable costs, let nouz add the slice of rent — and see 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 catch it in the week-on-week view on nouz. ~€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. You type tonight's gross from the Z-report in ten seconds, tap variable costs as the day happens, and your big fixed costs are already pro-rated into the day's slice. EBIT shows 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: today's revenue, today's variable costs, today's slice of rent — and the one number on top, did today pay.
Tonight's gross from your Z-report — typed in once, in 10 seconds. Cash and card split, VAT and card fees handled.
Variable costs you logged across the day — pastry delivery, the milk, the shift wages. Five seconds per entry.
What stayed, after revenue minus expenses minus today's slice of your fixed costs. The one number on top — did today pay.
Month-to-date gross on top. Your week, day by day. Revenue, expenses, EBIT — all settled. Phone-sized, but you'll glance at the laptop on Sunday for the weekly view.
Monday to today · vs same days last week
Five interactions a day. Under a minute combined. Built to survive a 6-rush Saturday and a tired 11pm close.
Courier drops the order. Open Expenses, type the amount, tap the Pastries category from your list, save. Done before the espresso machine warms up.
Phone in apron pocket. One swipe. Are we ahead of last Friday? Yes/no decision before the 12:30 surge.
Two more variable costs while it's quiet. Five seconds each. No paper to file, no end-of-month catch-up panic.
Open Revenue. Type today's gross from the Z-report — cash and card split if you want. Tax and card fees handled. nouz adds today's slice of fixed costs and shows EBIT. Done.
Coffee in hand. Seven day cards in front of you, this week vs last. Tuesdays were thin again. Push the pasta-night promo or kill it — decide on facts, not a feeling.
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.
Add your three biggest fixed costs — rent, electricity, payroll baseline. Pick your VAT rate. Done. You'll close out tonight on nouz.
Ten seconds at close-out. No integration to set up, no connector to break, no IT call when your POS updates. Cash and card split if you want them tracked separately. Tax and card fees handled.
Hosted in Frankfurt. No data leaves the EU. Whatever you've entered is yours — cancel and we hand it back on request. Self-serve export is on the roadmap; until then a one-line email to support gets you a full dump within a working day.
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 supported — switch between sites from Settings; each location keeps its own daily P&L.
Contracts, multi-location, VAT, 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.
Card at signup, charged monthly. Cancel mid-month and you're charged a pro-rata amount for the days you used.
No. At close-out you type tonight's gross from your Z-report — ten seconds, one screen. Cash and card split if you want them tracked separately. VAT and card-fee handling built in.
No connector to set up, no integration that breaks when your POS updates, no IT support call at 9 p.m. on a Friday. Works with any till on the planet.
Yes. Each location keeps its own daily P&L — its own revenue, expenses, fixed costs. Switch between sites from Settings; the home screen, statistics and history all rebind to the active location.
No extra per-location fee on the standard plan up to three sites. Four or more, talk to us about Team.
App in English and German today. More European languages rolling out.
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.
Every revenue entry tracks VAT-inclusive and VAT-exclusive figures using your default rate (set once in Settings), and your accountant can pull a clean monthly summary in CSV. We don't file your VAT for you — that's your accountant's lane, and we're staying out of it.
Yes. Whatever you've entered is yours — revenue entries, products, fixed costs, daily P&Ls. Self-serve export is on the roadmap; until it ships, email support and we'll hand you a one-time CSV dump within a working day. Take it to a spreadsheet, take it to your accountant, take it nowhere.
A spreadsheet is a blank room. nouz is a furnished one — fixed-cost daily slicing already wired up, VAT and card-fee handling built into every revenue entry, week and month rollups computing themselves. 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.
Seven minutes from signup to your first daily P&L. Keep your accountant. Lose the six-week wait.
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