Restaurants and multi-entity franchise groups

One branch, one CR, one set of numbers no one trusts

A franchise group with five branches often runs five point-of-sale systems, several Commercial Registrations and a spreadsheet stitched together once a month to see the whole picture. By the time that spreadsheet is done, the month it describes is already over and a branch quietly losing money has kept losing money for another four weeks.

Finbryn sets up books so each branch, or each legal entity where the group holds branches under separate CRs, keeps its own profit and loss, consolidated into one group view. POS deposits are split into sales, VAT, tips and card fees before they hit the bank feed, and food and labour cost percentages are calculated on the same cycle as the close rather than once a year.

Payroll across branches: GOSI, Mudad and Saudisation

A Saudi employee's GOSI contribution runs to 21.5% of contributable wage, split between employer and employee across the pension and unemployment (SANED) branches; a non-Saudi employee's GOSI is limited to the 2% occupational hazards branch, paid by the employer alone. Wages for every registered worker, across every branch, move through the Wage Protection Programme via the Mudad platform, and a group juggling several branches under one Saudisation quota needs that payroll data consistent across entities, not reconciled branch by branch after the fact.

VAT, Fatoora and intercompany transfers

Restaurant groups sit squarely inside Fatoora's rollout: standard VAT at 15% applies to food and beverage sales, and structured e-invoicing has to be issued from each branch's point of sale as ZATCA's integration waves reach the group's revenue band. Management fees or stock transfers between a head office entity and branch CRs are related-party transactions, which brings the Transfer Pricing Disclosure Form into the return package alongside the ordinary Zakat or tax filing.

Working with Finbryn

Our delivery team reconciles each branch weekly and produces the consolidated group report on a fixed monthly cycle, with figures reviewed by a senior reviewer and a corporate CFO before delivery. Zakat and tax returns are prepared by our team and filed by the taxpayer or a licensed tax agent. Pricing is published on our pricing page, and a group bringing several branches onto one clean chart of accounts for the first time starts with a scoped catch-up project ahead of ongoing monthly bookkeeping.