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title: "Analytics: follow your registers' sales | Vivlab POS"
description: "Follow the open register's sales live, choose a period, compare it with the previous one and see your best sellers, busiest hours, payment methods and sales by staff member or register."
url: https://docs.vivlab.com/en/pos/analytics
---

# Analytics

This screen brings together your register sales figures: revenue, number of sales, average basket, refunds, busiest hours and best sellers. Use it to follow the current day or to review a month or a year. It does not replace the [closure reports](https://docs.vivlab.com/en/pos/reports.md), which are your register's signed tax documents.

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## What do you want to do?

- [Follow today's sales live](#suivre-en-direct)
- [Choose a period](#choisir-une-periode)
- [See one register or all registers](#choisir-les-caisses)
- [Read the key figures](#lire-les-chiffres)
- [Read the charts and rankings](#lire-les-graphiques)

## Follow today's sales live {#suivre-en-direct}

The **Open register** period shows the sales recorded since the register's last Z closure, or since it opened if it has never been closed. It is the default period. It matches what the next Z closure will seal (see [Reports](https://docs.vivlab.com/en/pos/reports.md#cloturer-la-journee)).

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1. In the **Management** menu, open **Analytics**.
2. Keep the **Open register** period, or choose **Today** for sales since midnight.
3. Leave the screen open: with these two periods, the figures refresh every minute while the screen is visible, and each time you come back to the tab.

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The badge at the top right shows the time of the last refresh, for example **Updated at 2:32 PM**. It is green with a dot while automatic refresh is on.

::: tip
On the **Open register** period, revenue shows **Since** followed by the date of the last closure: you can see at a glance how long the register has gone without a closure.
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## Choose a period {#choisir-une-periode}

Tap the period picker at the top of the screen. It offers:

- **Open register**: since each register's last Z closure;
- **Today**: since midnight;
- **Yesterday**: yesterday, from midnight to midnight;
- **Last 7 days**, **Last 30 days** and **Last 90 days**: the days up to now, today included;
- **This month**: since the 1st of the month;
- **Last month**: the previous calendar month;
- **This year**: since January 1;
- **Custom**: the start and end dates you choose in the calendar.

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1. Tap the period picker.
2. Choose a period from the list, or pick a start date then an end date in the calendar: the period then switches to **Custom**.

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The chosen period and register scope are remembered on this device: you find them again the next time you open the screen.

::: info Periods are limited to 12 months
A period longer than 12 months is not refused, but only its last 12 months are shown. A message says so under the key figures.
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## See one register or all registers {#choisir-les-caisses}

Next to the period picker, choose **This register** to see only the register used on this device, or **All registers** to add up the sales of all your registers. With **All registers**, a **By register** ranking is added at the bottom of the screen.

If the register has no sales yet in the period, the screen shows **Your sales will take shape here**, with a **New sale** button to go and ring up a sale and an **All registers** button to see the other registers' sales.

## Read the key figures {#lire-les-chiffres}

The first row shows four figures, each with its change compared with the previous period of the same length (for example, the 7 days before for **Last 7 days**): a badge gives the difference as a percentage, with an up or down arrow, or a dash if the figure is stable. The **Open register** period has no comparison.

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- **Revenue incl. VAT**: the total, VAT included, of the period's receipts, refunds deducted.
- **Sales**: the number of sale receipts.
- **Average basket**: the average amount of a sale receipt, calculated without refunds.
- **Items sold**: the number of items on the receipts, items taken back in a return deducted.

The second row completes the picture:

- **Refunds**: the number of refund receipts and their total amount, for example `2 · €45.00`;
- **Discounts granted**: the total of discounts applied on receipts;
- **VAT collected**: the VAT included in the receipts;
- **Identified customers**: the number of different customers linked to a sale (a customer who buys three times counts once).

::: info Analytics and closures
Analytics are recalculated from the receipts each time they are shown. For final, signed figures to send to your accountant, use the [closures](https://docs.vivlab.com/en/pos/reports.md#consulter-une-cloture).
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## Read the charts and rankings {#lire-les-graphiques}

Below the key figures, the screen shows:

- **Revenue over time**: a curve by hour for a period of two days or less, by day up to 120 days, and by month beyond that;
- **Busiest hours**: the number of sales for each hour of the day, all days of the period combined, with the **Peak time**, the hour with the most sales. Tap or hover over a bar to see that hour's number of sales and revenue;
- **Payment methods**: each payment method's share (cash, card, cheque, bank transfer, credit note) of the amounts collected;
- **Best sellers**: the 8 items that bring in the most over the period, with the quantity sold;
- **By staff member**: each team member's revenue and number of sales, based on the operator recorded on each receipt (**Not specified** for a receipt without an operator);
- **By register**: with **All registers** only, each register's revenue, with its number of sales, or the date of its last closure on the **Open register** period.

To learn who the operator of a sale is, see [Staff](https://docs.vivlab.com/en/pos/staff.md).