What your day-end report should tell you in sixty seconds

A good report is not a wall of numbers. It answers a handful of questions quickly enough that you will actually read it at the end of a long night. If you have to hunt for the answer, you will stop looking — and a report nobody reads is just paperwork.

The five questions every owner asks

• How are we doing — against yesterday, last week, last month?
• How much business happened, in sales and in orders?
• What is selling, and what is not?
• What is happening right now on the floor and in the kitchen?
• Does anything need attention — stock, waiting bills, slow tickets?

The Navalyst dashboard is arranged around exactly those questions: key figures first, then sales over time, then the live operation, then products, then exceptions.

A dashboard that is yours

Every restaurant looks at a different number first. So the cards beneath the headline figures — sales by hour, top items, payment mix, live tables, the kitchen, stock — can be dragged, resized and put back to the defaults with one click. Your layout is saved to your login, so it is the same on the office computer and on your phone.

Cash that reconciles

Cash is where small errors hide. The cash drawer shows what you should have, calculated from the opening amount, cash sales and any money paid out, so a difference is visible the same night rather than at month-end.

1. 1

   Record the opening cash

   Start the day with the amount actually in the drawer.

2. 2

   Let sales and payouts accumulate

   Cash sales are counted from payments; money taken out is recorded with a reason.

3. 3

   Compare at close

   The expected balance sits beside what you count. A gap is a question to ask tonight, not next month.

Reports for the days between

• Sales and profit across any date range, shown as simple charts
• Payment mix, channel mix and category mix at a glance
• Wastage and purchases beside sales, so cost is never a surprise
• Exports for your accountant, with the same date filters you were looking at
• Bills you can search, view and reprint

Take it with you

Because Navalyst POS installs on a phone like an app, the dashboard goes where you go. Check the day from home, see whether a busy Saturday is shaping up, and make decisions with real numbers instead of impressions.