Save time
Less gathering, less switching
Reduce the effort spent gathering figures, preparing reports and switching between different sources of information.
Turn data into better decisions
Spend less time compiling reports. More time running your restaurant.
BNV Intelligence brings your restaurant’s key business information together in one place, helping you understand sales, products, trading patterns and customer feedback without spending hours piecing reports together.
- Sales & profitability
- Menu performance
- Customer insights
- Trading periods
- Reviews & feedback
- Starts from your monthly SAF-T file
- Review insights, with your authorisation
- Built for independent restaurants
- Clear, visual reporting
See the whole business in one place
One clear reporting experience
Bring sales performance, product analysis, trading periods and customer feedback together in a clear reporting experience.
Identify opportunities
Know where to look next
Understand what is performing well, where performance is changing and which areas may deserve further investigation or action.
A clearer picture of your business
Get a clearer picture of your business, understand what is driving performance and identify opportunities to make more informed decisions.
- Clear, visual insights
- Identify opportunities
- Understand your customers
- Make better decisions
Inside the report
What the report helps you see.
Screenshots of three pages of the BNV Intelligence report, each built around a question you can act on.
Illustrative dataAll restaurant names, figures and transaction data shown are fictional.
Product Performance
Understand what’s selling.
See which products earn the most, how each one contributes to total sales and how your top performers are trending, so you can spot where an opportunity may be worth a closer look.
Customer Reviews
Understand what your customers are telling you.
Bring ratings, sentiment and the themes guests mention together in one place, next to recent feedback, so you can see which issues may be worth investigating.
Illustrative customer feedback — reviews and reviewer details are fictional examples.
Business Review
Turn information into action.
A section of the report that brings together headline performance measures, insights and potential opportunities, to help you interpret the figures and decide what to look into next. It is a starting point for your own judgement, not a guaranteed outcome.
The monthly rhythm
You already send this file to your accountant.
You already send your monthly SAF-T file to your accountant. You can share the same file with BNV Intelligence to help turn your trading data into useful business insights.
See how it works- MonthlyYour billing softwareProduces your SAF-T (PT) file
- Same fileYour accountantAlready receives it each month
- ShareBNV IntelligenceYou can share the same file
- ResultYour reportSales, products, trading periods and reviews
About us
Built from our hospitality experience.
We have worked in restaurants and seen how much time goes into preparing reports that still leave the important questions unanswered. BNV Intelligence is our answer: clear, practical insight into sales, products, trading and customer feedback.
Read our story
Talk to us about your restaurant.
Tell us what you would like to understand better and we can show you the report.
The report
One report. Every part of your restaurant.
BNV Intelligence is delivered as a Power BI report, built for restaurant owners. These are screenshots of the report pages. Your own report opens inside the client portal.
Illustrative dataAll restaurant names, figures and transaction data shown are fictional.
Executive Overview
See the bigger picture.
The Overview page brings key restaurant performance measures together in one place: your headline figures and how sales move through the year, compared with previous years.
- Revenue, receipts, sales lines, units sold and average bill
- Monthly sales by year and a monthly comparison table
- Sales by meal period
- Key Insights written in plain language
Product Performance
Understand what’s selling.
The Product Performance page shows which products earn the most and how each one contributes to total sales, so you can see where an opportunity may be worth a closer look.
- Top 10 products by revenue
- Product detail: gross sales, units sold and average selling price
- Revenue trend for your top products
- Key Insights on top performers and volume
Customer Reviews
Understand what your customers are telling you.
The Customer Reviews page shows ratings, sentiment and the themes guests mention, so you can see how feedback and trading line up and which issues may be worth investigating.
Illustrative customer feedback — reviews and reviewer details are fictional examples.
- Average rating, total reviews, positive and negative share
- Rating and sentiment by year
- Top customer themes and recent feedback
- Key Insights on customer experience and what to watch
Business Review
Turn information into action.
The Business Review page brings headline performance measures, insights and potential opportunities together in one section, to help you interpret the figures and decide what to look into next.
These are pointers to help you decide what to investigate. They are a starting point for your own judgement, not guaranteed outcomes.
- Headline measures: revenue, receipts, average bill, units sold and positive review share
- What’s Working and What Needs Attention panels
- Key Insights summarising what the data is showing
- A Top Opportunities table with the evidence and an action to consider for each
- An overall summary of performance
Trading Periods
Discover when your restaurant performs best.
The Trading Periods page lets you investigate performance by time of day, meal period and day of the week.
- Revenue by meal period and by day of week
- Average transaction value alongside revenue
- Revenue by hour of the day
- Key Insights on busiest period, peak hour and strongest day
These images are screenshots, so they are not interactive. In the client portal the report is shown live inside the page, with its own filters and navigation, once your report is connected.
Would this help your restaurant?
Ask for a demo and we can talk through the report with you.
How it works
From the file you already send your accountant to a report you can act on.
You already send your monthly SAF-T file to your accountant. You can share the same file with BNV Intelligence to help turn your trading data into useful business insights.
The monthly process
Three steps, once a month.
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Find your SAF-T (PT) file
Once a month your billing software produces a SAF-T file. It is the same file your accountant receives. If you are unsure where to find it, your accountant or your software provider can point you to the SAF-T export.
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Share the same file with us
Upload it in the client portal under Upload SAF-T. You do not need to edit or prepare the file, and you do not need to give us access to your till or your billing software.
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Open your report
Your report is shown inside the client portal under My Reports, with its own pages, filters and navigation.
Monthly, not real time. A report built from SAF-T files reflects the files that have been shared. That fits the monthly review most owners already do with their accountant.
About the file
What is a SAF-T (PT) file?
SAF-T is the standard audit file for tax in Portugal. It is an XML file that your billing software generates for each month. Businesses send it to the tax authority through the Portal das Finanças, and most also share it with their accountant.
Because the file already exists, there is no extra reporting for you to do. BNV Intelligence is designed to read the sales information in it and present it in the report.
What the report uses from SAF-T
- Sales documents and their line items
- Quantities, values and VAT
- Dates and times of sale
- Payment details, where your system records them
What it does not contain
- Supplier invoices and ingredient costs
- Staff rotas and wages
- Customer reviews, which would come from Google
Exactly which details appear depends on your billing software, so the report can differ slightly between restaurants.
Customer feedback
Guest feedback, next to your sales
The Customer Reviews page of the report shows ratings, sentiment and the themes guests mention, alongside your trading figures, so you can see how feedback and performance line up.
From the client portal, a Respond to Google Reviews button takes you to your Google Business Profile in a new tab, where you can reply to guests directly on Google.
Good to know
- Replies are written and published on Google, not inside BNV Intelligence
- You need a Google Business Profile that you own or manage
The path your data takes
From your billing software to your report.
Your billing softwareProduces the monthly SAF-T (PT) file
SAF-T XML fileThe file you already have
BNV IntelligenceReceives and prepares your data
Your Power BI reportShown in the client portal
Google Business Profile reviews can join the same report, with your authorisation.
Ready to talk it through?
For restaurant owners
Your billing data already contains valuable information.
BNV Intelligence presents it as a clear view of how your restaurant is performing, without asking you to learn a new system or change how you work day to day.
Sales and revenue
See how revenue moves through the year and how it compares with previous years.
Product performance
Find out which products drive revenue, and how the rest of the range contributes.
Trading patterns
See your busiest meal periods, days and hours, so staffing and prep match how guests actually show up.
Average bill
Understand average spend per receipt and how it changes from year to year.
Customer reviews
With your authorisation, bring your rating, sentiment and review themes next to your trading figures.
Key insights
Short written notes on each page of the report, pointing out what stands out in your numbers.
Is it a fit?
Built for independent restaurants.
If you run a restaurant, review your numbers regularly and your billing software produces a SAF-T (PT) file, the report is designed to start from that file.
A good fit if
- You want one view instead of several reports
- You already send a monthly SAF-T file to your accountant
- You want sales and guest feedback side by side
- You would rather not learn another system
Talk to us about your restaurant.
Tell us what you would like to understand better.
About us
Built from our hospitality experience
BNV Intelligence comes from time spent working in restaurants, and from wanting business information to be easier to understand and use.
Our story
Why we created BNV Intelligence.
Through our experience working in restaurants, we saw first-hand how much time could be spent pulling together figures, preparing reports and trying to make sense of the numbers.
Too often, the result was a report full of data that still left the important questions unanswered. The numbers might show what happened, but they often did not explain why it happened, what opportunities were being missed, or what the business could do differently.
We kept coming back to the same questions:
- What was really driving sales?
- Which products were performing best?
- When were the biggest opportunities being missed?
- What were customers telling us, and what could we do differently?
We created BNV Intelligence to help answer those questions.
By bringing sales performance, product analysis, trading patterns and customer feedback together, our aim is to make business information easier to understand and more useful in day-to-day decisions.
Less time preparing reports. More time understanding your business and deciding what to do next.
What we bring together
Four parts of the picture, in one place.
Sales performance
Revenue, receipts and average bill, and how they move through the year.
Product analysis
What sells, what earns the most, and how each product contributes.
Trading patterns
Your busiest meal periods, days and hours.
Customer feedback
Ratings, sentiment and the themes guests mention, with your authorisation.
See the report for yourself.
Browse the pages of the BNV Intelligence report, or sign in to your client area.
Data & security
Your restaurant data deserves care.
This page sets out the principles BNV Intelligence is built around. We will only describe a protection as in place once it has been put in place and checked.
Principles
What we are building towards.
Only what is needed
The report works from the sales and trading information in your SAF-T file and, if you choose, your Google reviews. We do not need card numbers, bank logins or access to your till.
Each restaurant sees its own data
A restaurant must only ever see its own figures. This is a firm requirement of how the service is designed.
Controlled access
Access to a restaurant's data should be limited to the people who need it, with sign-in and permissions set up per restaurant.
Protection of stored data
Where data is hosted and how it is protected will be documented and shared with you before any restaurant data is uploaded.
Clear agreements
Before your account is activated, we will agree in writing how your data is used, how long it is kept and how it can be deleted.
Your permission for reviews
Google review data is only used through an authorised connection that you approve, and you can withdraw that approval.
Good to know
About customer details in SAF-T files.
A SAF-T file can include customer details, such as a tax number on an invoice issued to a named customer. The report pages shown on this website do not display customer names or tax numbers.
Questions about your data?
Ask before you decide. We are happy to talk it through.
Contact
Request a demo or get in touch.
Tell us a little about your restaurant and what you would like to understand better.
Email us directly
You can also write to us at bnvintelligence@gmail.com.
What to talk about
- What the report shows and how it could help your restaurant
- The monthly SAF-T file and how you would share it
- How the report can support your management reviews
- Any questions about your data
More time running your restaurant.
Customer login
Access your reports
Sign in to open your restaurant workspace and your BNV Intelligence report.
Access is by invitation. Need help signing in? Contact us.
Welcome
Casa Exemplo · your BNV Intelligence client area. Share your monthly SAF-T file, then open your report.
Upload SAF-T
Awaiting uploadYou already send your monthly SAF-T file to your accountant. You can share the same file with BNV Intelligence.
Upload monthly fileMy Reports
Your interactive Power BI report, with its own pages, filters and navigation.
Open My ReportsGoogle Reviews
Reply to your guests’ reviews on Google. The button opens your Google Business Profile in a new tab.
Respond to Google ReviewsMy Reports
The five areas of your BNV Intelligence report. Each one answers a management question.
Opening your report
Your interactive report will open here
Your interactive BNV Intelligence report, with its own pages, filters and slicers, opens here.
- An illustrative example of the report is shown alongside
- Designed so each restaurant sees only its own data
- Secure connection to be set up before real reports are shown
Use the navigation inside the report to move between pages. Full screen gives the largest view.
My Data
The SAF-T file you have checked and the period it covers.
Monthly SAF-T file
No file checked yet
- Last checked
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- Period covered
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- Invoices found
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Upload SAF-T
You already send your monthly SAF-T file to your accountant. You can share the same file with BNV Intelligence to help turn your trading data into useful business insights.
Upload a SAF-T file Checked in your browser
Export the SAF-T (PT) file from your certified invoicing software and upload it here.
Drag and drop your SAF-T file here
SAF-T (PT) .xml file, up to 50MB
Ask your accountant for the monthly file, or look for the SAF-T export in your invoicing software. Upload it without changing it.
Account
Your restaurant account and connections.
Restaurant
Your restaurant details.
- Restaurant name
- Casa Exemplo
- Signed in as
- Account type
- Customer account
- Location
- Portugal
Google Reviews
Reply to your guests on Google.
Opens your Google Business Profile in a new tab, where you can read and respond to your reviews.
Respond to Google ReviewsSettings
Preferences for your account.
Preferences
How your client area is shown.
- Language
- English
- Currency
- Euro (€)
Clear the checked file
Clears the file you checked and returns the client area to how it starts.
Help
Answers to common questions.
Where do I find my SAF-T file?
It is the monthly file your billing software produces for your accountant and the tax authority. Ask your accountant or your software provider to point you to the SAF-T (PT) export.
What happens when I upload a file?
Your SAF-T file is read and checked in your browser. You see its period, the number of invoices, products and customers it contains, and whether it passes the validation checks. In this version the file is checked in your browser and is not stored or sent anywhere.
Where is my report?
Your interactive Power BI report opens under My Reports. Use the navigation inside the report to move between its pages.
How do I get in touch?
Use the Contact page to ask a question or request a demo.
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