XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) is the machine-readable form of financial reports. Not PDF, not Excel — structured data. For large restaurant chains and audit firms, it's no longer a preference; it's an obligation.
In Europe, ESEF (European Single Electronic Format) requires listed businesses to report in XBRL. In Türkiye, BDDK and SPK regulations follow a similar approach. In Germany, any restaurant exporting DATEV needs an XBRL-compatible export chain.
Three practical benefits of the XBRL standard
- Auditor speed: cross-checks on an XBRL-tagged financial statement take seconds.
- Comparability: because you use the same tags as peers, benchmarking happens automatically.
- Multilingual reporting: tags are language-independent; what a German auditor sees and what a Turkish manager sees have the same structure.
The Gastrolie finance module produces P&L, EBITDA and budget-variance reports in the DATEV, Lexware and Logo export formats. XBRL tagging is not supported today.