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Xero for food trucks: the smallest useful setup
A minimal Xero setup for a food-truck or market-stall business, integrated with CartFlow.
Xero is powerful — and if you're not careful, powerfully complicated. Here's the smallest useful setup for a mobile food business.
Chart of accounts
Trim it back. You do not need 200 accounts. 30 well-named accounts covers most food-truck operations.
Bank feeds
Set up feeds for the business current account and any card-processor account. Automatic reconciliation from day one.
Connect CartFlow
CartFlow syncs sales, expenses and stock adjustments to Xero automatically. You reconcile in seconds, not hours.
GST rules
Set default tax rates once per account. Never override at the transaction level unless you have to.
Monthly close
Twenty minutes a month if you've done the above. Not a weekend.