— For the restaurant owner or finance team
What should a restaurant remove from a marketplace statement before uploading it for analysis?
What should I redact before an AI DoorDash statement audit?
Remove bank-account and routing numbers, tax IDs, passwords, API keys, personal home addresses, personal phone numbers, guest names, delivery addresses, and employee identifiers that are not required to reproduce the math. Never upload a marketplace portal password or an identity document. Never86'd does not ask for those, and a public page should never carry a restaurant’s private account numbers or PINs.
Preserve statement dates, a store label you can pseudonymize, order or payout references, eligible sales, commission, merchant fees, promotions, refunds, error charges, taxes (as pass-through, not as restaurant revenue), adjustments, credits, and amounts passed to the restaurant. Those rows are what make $0 variance a real result instead of a guess. Keep an untouched original internally so any later question can be traced to the source file.
— Field checks
- 01Strip credentials and government / bank identifiers first.
- 02Keep every dollar line needed to rebuild documented deductions and expected payout.
- 03If a needed category was redacted, the audit must return Missing Evidence — not a filled-in rate.
— Evidence to keep
- • Redacted copy for analysis
- • Untouched original retained by the restaurant
Sources checked August 21, 2026. Independent operational guidance—not marketplace-endorsed legal, tax, or accounting advice. Read the evidence and corrections standard.
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