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Log into app.abacus.co as HQ and click the BI icon in order to see all your sales reports across all your stores.

You can switch which site you are signed in as by going to the dropdown box at the top right corner of the page.

Although each report is different, the tools to help you interpret them are the same.

Your daily sales for all stores will be displayed here.

Compare sales against weather

Go to the Month tab and click Export to download a CSV file of the month's sales and the corresponding weather for each day.

A summary of the sales for each store will be displayed here, broken down into the average sales based on the number of transactions.

If one of your sites is particularly large, you can separate its cash registers into groups. This means you can compare, for example, the sales made at the cash register group near the bar and the sales made at the cash register group near the front door.

This requires setting up “Cash Register Groups” on the POS backend, and manually assigning each POS iPad to a group.

You can separate multiple companies (a.k.a. sites, stores) into groups, so you can compare, for example, the sales made by your bars, and the sales made by your restaurants.

This requires setting up “Company Groups” and manually assigning each company to a group.

This report compares your sales for up to 4 separate periods, for any combination of stores.

The boxes show:

*Guest Count and Spend Per Person will only be calculated for stores that use a guest count on the POS

This report allows you to compare sales according to your own custom periods, e.g. Breakfast for 8am-11am.

Each "section" needs to be created in the Settings tab first, otherwise you won't be able to find any sales.

To create your "sections":

Repeat until you have completed a Group with its Sections.

When you go back to the Daily Section Sales tab, you'll see that each Section that you created will be highlighted its own colour in sales graph.

You can only view one "group" of sections at a time, but you can have multiple "groups" set up that you can toggle between. For example, you might have:

Having multiple groups means that you can switch between different views depending on how you want to analyse your sales. Click Is Active to view your sales with that group.

Go to the Period Sales tab to see the sales stacked on a column graph. Each colour corresponds to a different "section" of sales (e.g. breakfast, lunch, dinner).

Image for illustration: in the below example, a multi-site business is logged in and is looking at its 2 child sites, so there are two columns per day.

This report compares the sales of your products across any combination of your stores

This report compares the sales of your products across your stores.

This report compares the type of tender used in your stores (e.g. cash, credit card, voucher).

As a HQ account, you would also be able to export the tender breakdown for all of your stores as CSV and as PDF files.

This report shows when the POS Register was opened, closed, and whether there was any variance. It also includes a breakdown of sales by payment method.

This report counts how many customers there were every hour, and the average sales.
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Buying Behaviour only covers paying customers. Regardless of guest count, customers are calculated by the number of people who pay (including via split payment).

For example, if 2 people dine, but only 1 person pays, that is considered to be only 1 customer.

This report shows the sales for your registered customers.