The Daily Report Window

View Daily Total is the screen you open to answer "how did we do?" — for a day, and now for any week, month, quarter or year. You'll find it on the Dashboard's Transactions tab.

Pick a date and the left side shows that day's numbers: sales, tabs, tips, the transaction count and average, and a breakdown of how customers paid. The arrows step one day at a time, and the calendar jumps anywhere.

The view selector: Day, Week, Month, Quarter, Year

Across the top there's a set of view buttons. Day is the screen you already know. Pick Week, Month, Quarter or Year and the whole window switches to that period — the totals for the period up top, and the history below in whole periods: the highlighted row repeats the period's own total, and every row under it shows what an average week (or month, quarter, year) brought in over that stretch of history. In Week view, "Last Year: $5,304" means a typical week last year brought in $5,304 — compare it straight against the week on screen. There's also a custom option for any two dates you pick.

The arrows page by whatever view you're in — in Month view, one tap back is July. Stepping through the last six Augusts takes six taps in Year view's by-year table, or just read them off the table itself, which brings us to:

The history tables

The bottom half of the window compares what you're looking at against your own history — and in Day view, it compares like with like: a Saturday is only ever compared against other Saturdays. A slow Tuesday looks alarming next to a Saturday and perfectly normal next to other Tuesdays; these tables always give you the honest comparison.

There are two tables:

• Rolling averages — the same day of the week averaged over the last 30 days, 6 months, and one to five years, plus all time.
• By year — the same day of the week, one row per calendar year, going back eight years. The newest row is marked (so far) because its year isn't finished.

Both tables carry seven measures: average total, transactions per day, average transaction, tips, commission, cigars sold per day, and the share of cigars that earned commission. The day (or period) you're looking at sits in its own highlighted row above the history rows.

In the period views the tables reshape to match. The rolling table becomes weekly (or monthly, quarterly, yearly) averages — what a typical week brought in over each stretch — and the by-year table shows the same slice of the calendar as its full total each year, so this week lines up directly against the same week in every past year. A Month view compares this August against your past Augusts the same way.

One honest gap you may see: a stretch shorter than the period you're viewing shows "--" instead of a number. In Year view, "Last 30 Days" can't tell you what an average year looks like — a dash is more truthful than a guess.

Not sure what a column means? The ? button explains every one in plain words.

View Graphs

The View Graphs button draws the same history as charts and opens them in your browser — one chart per measure. A few things to know when reading them:

• The year lines run oldest to newest. The newest year is drawn as a larger hollow point and tagged (so far) — it's a part-year, not a finished one.
• The benchmark bars show how the day (or period) on screen compares to each rolling window: a green bar to the right means it beat that benchmark, a red bar to the left means it fell short. A dashed line marks the day or period itself on every chart.
• A grey bar means that window doesn't have enough history yet to be worth judging against.
• Each chart heading also shows the year-over-year move — the most recent year against the one before it, green up, red down.

The report prints your store name and when it was generated, and there's a copy-the-file-location button at the bottom — handy if you want to email the report to someone or send it to us on a support call.

A note on the numbers

Tips and commission come from the same records payroll uses. Cigars are counted in sticks, so a box of 20 counts as 20. And the day on screen is never included in its own benchmark — a slow afternoon in progress can't drag down the average it's being compared against.