Purpose of a Sales Report

Purpose of a Sales Report

Introduction

Sales report displays the amount of  total tax by  product, product group, customer, customer group, and cashier during  the selected date range in a Store / POS. It gives detailed information about the sales inclusive tax, sale exclusive tax, and discounts.

Purpose

Sales Report is used for monitoring the total tax by  product, product group, customer, customer group, and cashier during  the selected date range in a Store / POS

Steps To Generate Sales Report


Info
The Sales Target Report feature is unlocked upon activation of the Sales Target Management Plugin.  


Steps to generate a Sales Report

Go to Home > Reports > Sales Report. On clicking the Sales Report, the Sales report for all the stores / POS gets populated. You can choose to generate the report individually based on Product, or Product Group, or Customer, or Customer Group, or Cahier. 


To selectively filter the report, perform the following steps: 


Once the report is generated, it can again be filtered on the screen by mentioning the filtering criteria on the columns.


Report Data

The data in the report (the columns) will depend on the filtering criteria that you have selected. For example, executing the report by store will give consolidated numbers of Sales, Refunds, etc. whereas executing the report for Product will display information about products and their product groups. Similarly, executing the report by Customer will give customer related information. 

For easy reference, the reports also display the column totals at the bottom of the screen. 


In this example we are discussing the sales report by store, which gives consolidated information about sales, refunds, etc. at the store level. 


Mentioned below is the explanation of the different columns that are displayed when the sales report is executed by Store. 



Store

Store is the name of the store where the transaction occurred.


POS

The name of the POS where the sale transaction is generated.

 

Sales (inc. tax)

Total sales figures including taxes


Sales (ex. tax)

Total sales figures excluding taxes 


Refund (inc. tax)

Refund numbers including taxes 


Refund (ex. tax)

Refund numbers excluding taxes 


Discounts

Total value of discounts extended to customers 


Net Sales

Sales (inc. tax) - Refun (inc. tax)


Units Sold 

Total number of units that were sold at the store in the specified date range. This is (Sold Units - Refunded Units) 


Product Cost 

This is the total cost of the products that were sold. Product cost is picked up from the cost mentioned on the product in the product master. 


Gross Profit

Gross profit  is calculated based on this formula Sales (ex. tax) - Refund (ex. tax) - Product Cost 


Gross Margin 

Gross Margin is a percentage figure and the formula is Gross Profit / Sales (ex. tax)


Net Tax

Net Tax is calculated based on this formula. 

{Sales (inc. tax) - Sales (ex. tax)} - { Refund (inc. tax) - Refund (ex. tax)}




Exporting the Sales Report

Sales Report can be exported using the "Export" button. Click on the Export button and browse to a location where you want to save the Sales Report. Click on the Save button to save the file.



Sales Report can be Printed using the button. Click on the "Print" button, Print Preview pops up, select the destination printer, pages, Copies, Color and configure more settings, if required. Click on the Print button to print the Sales Report.


 

Suggested Readings

Tax on Sales Report

Tax on Purchases Report

Sales Report


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