Reports and figures

Sales reports, margins and unpaid invoices

Taken in $18,420, margin $4,106, unpaid $980. Your sales report shows those three figures on a Tuesday at 11 am, without waiting for the 31st.

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The current month

The report builds itself at every sale

A $20 note goes into the drawer at 9:12, and the month's total has moved before the customer is out the door. Nobody runs a close in the evening.

Taken in this month
18 420 $

The money actually in, all means together: cash, transfer, cheque, card, mobile payment. The seven invoices still open are not in it.

Margin
4 106 $

What is left once the purchase price, the losses and the discounts are taken off.

Unpaid
980 $

Goods delivered, hours done, money still out there. See the seven overdue invoices.

The week just gone Sales day by day over the week: Saturday $1,290, Sunday $440, almost three times less MondayTuesdayWednesday ThursdayFridaySunday Saturday 1 290 $ 440 $ The same cut exists by hour.

Saturday $1,290, Sunday $440. One more seller on Saturday, and on Sunday you close at 1 pm.

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Last twelve months Lowest 10 900 $ Highest 18 420 $
The three best sellers

What keeps the place running

1
Acrylic paint — 25 L can
148 cans sold
3 256 $
2
15W40 engine oil — carton of 6 × 1 L
204 cartons sold
1 958 $
3
Workshop labour — by the hour
176 hours invoiced
1 311 $

The 25 L can carries $3,256 on its own. That one you never let fall to zero.

The six questions

Six questions, six answers in figures

The ones you ask at 8 pm, shutter down, counting the drawer. Two clicks give the figure.

What did I sell?

The items out, the hours invoiced, the month's subscriptions, and the sum taken in. Over a day or over twelve months.

What did it cost me?

The price paid to the supplier for what went out, plus the hours spent on the repairs. What sleeps in the stockroom stays out of the calculation.

What is left for me?

The margin, once the purchase price, the losses and the discounts are taken off. The only figure that says whether the business makes money.

Who sells what?

Sales and hours invoiced per person, with the amount of discounts each one has given.

Which day do I sell most?

The figure by day and by hour. You will see that Saturday is decided between 10 am and 1 pm: $610 of the day's $1,290.

Who owes me money?

The overdue invoices, the oldest at the top, with the customer and the amount. The overdue reminder is already written.

The ways of cutting

Six ways of cutting the same sales

You enter nothing more: September's sales re-sort by seller, by family or by point of sale in one click.

One single entry at the register feeds six cuts: by day, by product, by family, by seller, by point of sale and by means of payment the same sales, entered once only By day By product By family By seller By point of sale By means of payment day, week, month what moves, what sleeps paint, plumbing, screws sales and discounts given two shops, one truck cash, transfer, mobile

One pass at the register feeds all six cuts.

By day

The day, the week, the month. Or two periods side by side, September against September.

By product

What goes fast and what sleeps. The ranking reads both ways.

By family

Paint, plumbing, fitting, maintenance subscriptions. Paint makes $7,940 in September, electrical $1,740.

By seller

What each one sells, and the total of his discounts for the month.

By point of sale

Two shops, three counters, a truck. Each place has its figure; the total works itself out.

By means of payment

Cash, transfer, mobile payment. Useful in the evening, for counting the drawer.

Example — sales by family, in September
Family Quantities out Taken in Discounts Margin
Paint and coatings1 4127 940 $−186 $1 802 $
Screws and hardware2 0654 610 $−94 $1 048 $
Plumbing8743 180 $−52 $826 $
Electrical3961 740 $−38 $312 $
Fitting and labour129950 $−12 $118 $

The same table exists by product, by seller, by point of sale, by means of payment. Every line opens on its sales.

The margin

The margin on a can of paint, figure by figure

The $30.00 taken on a 25 L can is not $30.00 earned. The sum fits in four lines, and you write no formula.

A margin broken down: of the thirty dollars taken, the purchase price takes twenty-two away, losses one thirty-two, discounts one, and five dollars sixty-eight are left 30,00 $ sold by the unit −22,00 $ purchase price of the can −1,32 $ losses — 1.5 L spoiled −1,00 $ discounts given 5,68 $ what is left for you

The two thin bars in the middle weigh 2,32 $ of the 8,00 $ left after the purchase.

A 25 L can of paint, from supplier to customer
Purchase price of the container22,00 $
Sold retail, 25 L at 1,20 $30,00 $
What losses take away — 1.5 L spoiled−1,32 $
What discounts take away−1,00 $
What is left for you5,68 $

The price per litre, 0,88 $, comes from the can paid 22,00 $. You enter one price only: that of the container bought.

✓The purchase price of the container. What the supplier invoiced you for the can, the carton, the lot.
✓The selling price. By the litre, the bottle, the part fitted on a repair, the hour of labour, the session or the month of subscription.
✓What losses take away. A pierced drum, a broken bottle, a date gone by: the loss is declared in one move and lands on the month's margin.
✓What discounts take away. A discount is written as an amount, $1.00 on this can, and its total reads by seller.
Access rule

A cashier never sees the margin

No purchase price, no monthly total. He sees the selling price, the basket, the change to give.

The margin goes to the owner and to the managers you name, from the first sale. No box to tick for that.

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Getting the figures out

Get your figures out as a spreadsheet or a PDF

The accountant wants a spreadsheet, the bank a PDF, the partner three months of detail. Two clicks per file, on the dates you set.

The same sales come out as a spreadsheet for the accountant and as a laid-out PDF for the bank Your sales the period you set As a spreadsheet for the accounting export PDF As a PDF laid out, with your details

One period set once, two files side by side.

As a spreadsheet

One line per sale, or one line per day. The file opens in any spreadsheet on the market.

The columns carry readable names. Your accountant will not call you back to ask what column G holds.

As a PDF

The report laid out, your details at the top, ready to print or to attach to a file.

The same document for the bank, the funder, the administration. It reprints identically in six months.

The period you choose

A day, a quarter, a year, or two dates you set. The calculation redoes itself at once.

One point of sale, or all. One seller, or the whole team. The filter applies before the export.

No strings

This data is yours

Sales, customers, prices, history: you export everything, including the day you stop using COMZA.

No export is capped, charged for, or subject to approval.

Coming in a future version

Automatic bank reconciliation

Today, you tick the transfers received against your open invoices yourself.

Automatic reconciliation is in preparation: transfers will land on the right invoices on their own. It is not available yet.

Your first figures, from your first sale

Sell three drums this morning, read your margin at 7pm. No notebook to keep at night.

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