Reporting Explained: Sales By Day

Reporting Explained: Sales By Day

Business Need:  This report is helpful for users who want a summary of sales by location over a period.

How it Works:  A Sales>By Item report shows a summary of sales for your stores in Yellow Dog.

Generating the Report:


Go to the Standard Reports section in Yellow Dog:

  1. Select Standard Reports
  2. Open the folder titled ‘Sales’
  3. Open the folder titled ‘By Day’
  4. Select the date or date range that you would like to run the report for and choose any filters that you would like to add
  5. Generate report

Reading the Report:


  1. Shows the filters used to produce the report’s data, including the date selected for the report.
  2. Change columns, sorting, and grouping:  This allows users to add or remove data columns to this report as well as organize and group the data.
  3. Store Name: Shows the store that the item on hand is assigned to.
  4. Period:  Shows the date for the sales on this line.
  5. Quantity Sold:  Shows the total quantity sold for items on this date.
  6. Total Cost: Shows the total cost of items sold on this date (Quantity Sold x Calculated Cost at the time of sale).
  7. Total Retail:  Shows the total sold for items in this store multiplied by the retail price as of that selected date and time (Quantity Sold x Actual Retail as recorded on sales ticket)
  8. Total Discount:  Shows the total for discounts applied to the sale (Quantity Sold x Item Discount as recorded on a sales ticket).
  9. Net Retail:  Shows the total retail after any discounts applied to the sales (Total Retail – Total Discount).
  10. This row allows you to save, export, print, or close the current report.





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