Florida · Hospitality & Restaurant Accounting
Florida hotels, vacation rentals, and restaurants run on high-volume POS, tipped payroll, and a Tourist Development Tax most bookkeepers have never touched. We reconcile the POS, run tipped payroll cleanly, separate food-vs-alcohol sales tax, and keep the county Tourist Development Tax straight — by a named Certified ProAdvisor. We deliver the books; your CPA files.
Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor team · Independent · not Intuit · Fixed-fee · written scope in 3 days
TechBrot delivers Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor accounting for Florida hotels, vacation rentals, and restaurants — high-volume POS reconciliation, tipped payroll, food-vs-alcohol sales tax, and the county Tourist Development Tax, set up in your own QuickBooks file. The full Florida hospitality summary is below.
Reviewed by the Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor team at TechBrot Inc., an independent firm — not affiliated with Intuit Inc. Florida hospitality references (the Tourist Development Tax administered by counties; food-vs-alcohol sales tax) reflect rules current as of the review date and vary by county; confirm with the Department of Revenue, your county, and your CPA. TechBrot does not file Florida taxes.
TechBrot provides accounting for Florida hotels, vacation rentals, and restaurants — in your own QuickBooks file by a named Certified ProAdvisor. The job is to reconcile high-volume sales, run tipped payroll cleanly, and keep Florida’s layered hospitality taxes straight.
Florida adds its own weight. Transient lodging — hotels, motels, and short-term vacation rentals — is subject to a county Tourist Development Tax (the “bed tax”) on top of the 6% + county surtax sales tax, administered county by county at rates that vary. Restaurants need food-vs-alcohol sales tax separated, high-volume POS reconciliation against deposits and processors, and tipped payroll handled correctly under Florida’s minimum wage. There’s no state income tax, but the books still feed the corporate tax and the tangible personal property return. We keep all of it clean — CPA-ready. We keep the books; your CPA files. Independent firm — not affiliated with Intuit Inc.
High-volume POS reconciliation, tipped payroll, food-vs-alcohol sales tax, and the county Tourist Development Tax on transient lodging — for Florida hotels, vacation rentals, and restaurants, in your own QuickBooks file. We keep the books; your CPA files.
It’s a county “bed tax” on transient lodging — hotels, motels, and short-term vacation rentals — charged on top of the 6% + county surtax sales tax, administered county by county at rates that vary (and sometimes collected by the county rather than the state). We track it correctly; your county and CPA confirm the rate and filing.
We reconcile your POS (Toast, Square, Clover) to deposits and processor settlements daily or by period, separate food vs alcohol for sales tax, and tie tips and comps so the books match what actually happened at the register.
Florida has a rising minimum wage and a tip-credit structure, so tipped payroll has to be handled correctly — tips, tip-outs, and credit-card tips tracked and run through payroll cleanly. We keep the records; your payroll provider and CPA handle the filings.
No — we keep the books CPA-ready and the TDT tracked; your CPA and county handle the filing. We’re independent, don’t represent clients before the Department or the county, and aren’t affiliated with Intuit.
A busy property can still bleed margin. Knowing which gap you’re in tells us where to start.
High-volume restaurants and hotels generate thousands of transactions across cash, cards, and delivery apps — without disciplined reconciliation, the POS, the processor, and the bank never agree, and margin is a guess.
Transient lodging owes a county bed tax on top of sales tax, at rates that vary by county and sometimes filed with the county directly. Books that don’t separate it create an exposure that compounds.
Tips, tip-outs, credit-card tips, and Florida’s rising minimum wage make hospitality payroll error-prone — and the errors are expensive and recurring.
Every engagement is scoped to your property or restaurant, delivered in your own QuickBooks file by a named Certified ProAdvisor.
Toast, Square, or Clover reconciled to deposits and processor settlements so the books match the register.
Bookkeeping services →The county bed tax on transient lodging tracked separately from sales tax so your county return ties — rate confirmed with your county.
Sales tax help →Taxable categories separated so 6% + county surtax is applied correctly across food, alcohol, and exempt items.
Sales tax help →Tips, tip-outs, and credit-card tips tracked and run through payroll cleanly under Florida’s minimum wage.
Payroll →Multiple properties or locations consolidated with per-location margin so you see which one actually performs.
Monthly bookkeeping →Prime-cost and margin reporting your CPA can file from and you can manage labor and food cost against.
Financial statements →We reconcile alongside the POS, channel-manager, and payroll tools you already run — the books read from how you serve guests.
Every Florida hospitality engagement follows the same rhythm — books accurate first, margin visibility second, advisory third.
A Certified ProAdvisor reviews your POS reconciliation, payroll, and Tourist Development Tax handling — at no cost.
A written scope and fixed fee within 3 business days — setup, cleanup, or monthly.
POS reconciled, bed tax and food-vs-alcohol separated, tipped payroll cleaned.
A monthly close showing prime cost and per-location margin, CPA-ready.
When the POS ties and the taxes are separated, the decisions get real: which menu items and room types make money, where labor is outrunning revenue, whether the next location pencils — answered from numbers that hold.
That’s where fractional-CFO advisory picks up, in coordination with your CPA. We keep the books; your CPA files; the strategy rests on both being right.
This page reflects how TechBrot handles Florida hospitality engagements. It is maintained by the Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor team at TechBrot Inc., a Delaware-incorporated independent ProAdvisor firm, and reviewed for technical accuracy on POS reconciliation, tipped payroll, food-vs-alcohol sales tax, and the county Tourist Development Tax against Florida Department of Revenue and county guidance current as of the date below. TDT rates and administration vary by county; confirm with your county and CPA. TechBrot delivers the books and coordinates with your CPA, who files; we do not file Florida or county taxes or represent clients before tax authorities.
Reviewer
TechBrot Certified ProAdvisor team · 40+ years combined operational accounting experience
Standards
Verified vs the Florida Department of Revenue & county tourist-development offices · No tax-filing or representation claims (out of scope) · TDT rates vary by county — confirm current figures · No fabricated data
Independence
Independent Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor firm · Not affiliated with Intuit Inc.
Florida hospitality businesses start here
Book a free discovery call. We’ll review your POS reconciliation, payroll, and Tourist Development Tax handling, and send a written fixed-fee scope within 3 business days. No pitch. Independent firm — does not file FL taxes; coordinates with your CPA.