Bookkeeping categories
What category is DoorDash in bookkeeping?
Money you pay DoorDash is usually Meals, and a DoorDash payout into your bank is Sales Revenue. Even Margin tells them apart by which way the money moves, and asks you to confirm the payout.
What DoorDash charges are
For most businesses a DoorDash charge is a food order. For a restaurant, DoorDash also pays out the orders it delivered.
How Even Margin categorizes DoorDash
Meals. Payouts are Sales Revenue, for your review list.
- Even Margin recognizes DoorDash on your bank transaction, using the merchant list its team curates.
- Money you pay DoorDash is categorized as Meals with high confidence, applied without asking you.
- A DoorDash payout into your bank is categorized as Sales Revenue at medium confidence and goes to your review list to confirm, since income is worth a look.
When a different category fits
Whatever category you pick for a DoorDash transaction stays: Even Margin never overwrites a choice you made.
- A personal DoorDash order on a business card is Owner Draw / Personal.
- Deliveries you send to your own customers through DoorDash Drive are Shipping, Fulfillment & Postage, so change those from Meals.
Is DashPass a meal?
DashPass is DoorDash's membership, a subscription rather than food. Give it the category you use for memberships, and a rule on the amount keeps it there.
Why is my DoorDash payout less than the orders?
DoorDash keeps its commission and any refunds before it pays out, so a payout is your sales after them. The DoorDash Merchant Portal lists what came out of each one.
About this page
Reviewed 2026-10-08 by the Even Margin team.
These are categories for your books; for how a cost is treated on your tax return, ask your accountant. Merchant names are trademarks of their owners, and Even Margin is not affiliated with them.