Create your account and set up your restaurant

When you sign up for Rinvy, the first thing you'll do is create your restaurant. This article walks through the fields on the setup screen and explains why each one matters for everything you'll do later: counts, receiving, prep, ordering, and reporting.

Restaurant name

Your restaurant name is shown across the app, on team invitations, and on the invoice forwarding email address (if you enable it). You can change it later from Kitchen Settings.

Operating days

Pick the days your kitchen is actually open. Operating days are used when projecting expected usage: closed days are excluded from burn rate calculations and forecasts, so a Monday-closed restaurant doesn't get penalized for "zero usage" on Mondays.

Business-day cutoff hour

Rinvy uses a 4 AM default cutoff. Anything that happens before 4 AM (a 1 AM sale, a 2 AM closeout count) counts toward the previous business day.

Timezone

Defaults to America/Chicago. All reports, lookback windows, expiration alerts, and daily charts use this timezone — so set it correctly even if you'll only ever use the app from a single location.

Weather location (optional)

If you're on Pro and plan to use demand forecasting, set a weather location so the forecast can adjust for weather patterns. You can skip this on setup and add it from Kitchen Settings later.