Retail sales reports
You can use the retail sales reports to see information about your customers' point of sale orders based on criteria such as product, SKU, or staff.
The reports show only sales that were made at a POS location. Other sales are excluded from the reports.
When you open a retail sales report, the data is up to date, give or take about 1 minute. You can reopen or refresh the report to show newer data.
View your retail sales reports
For information about the terms that are used in the retail sales reports, see Sales reports.
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Detailed retail sales reports
If your store is on the Shopify plan or higher, then you have access to the following retail sales reports:
- Retail sales by product
- Retail sales by product variant SKU
- Retail sales by product vendor
- Retail sales by product type
- Retail sales by Point of Sale location
- Retail sales by staff at register
- Retail sales by staff at register (daily)
- Retail sales by staff attributed to sale
Retail sales by product
The Retail sales by product report shows the breakdown of total sales of your products, but does not include shipping.
Shipping isn't included because an order can consist of several products, but has a single shipping charge. For reporting purposes, the shipping charge can't be apportioned between the products in the order.
Because shipping amounts are filtered out, the tax that is shown in this report does not include taxes on shipping.
The sales reports use several common terms. This report uses the following additional terms:
| Product type | The type of product you are selling. For example, hats, shirts, or shoes. |
| Product title | The name for your product. |
| Net quantity | Equates to number of sold items - number of returned items. |
Sometimes the data in the product fields, such as Product type or Product title, is shown as a dash (—). This occurs if the data didn't exist at the time of the order.
Similarly, if any of this data is changed between orders, then the report might show multiple rows for the same product because the identifying information is not exactly the same. The reports always show the original values from the time of the order.
Retail sales by product variant SKU
The Retail sales by product variant SKU report shows the breakdown of gross sales, but not the shipping cost, of your top-selling products on a more granular level than the Retail sales by product report.
Shipping isn't included because an order can consist of several products, but has a single shipping charge. For reporting purposes, the shipping charge can't be apportioned between the products in the order.
The sales reports use several common terms. This report uses the following additional terms:
| Product title | The name for your product. |
| Variant title | The name of the product variant. |
| Variant SKU | The identification code of the product variant. |
| Net quantity | Equates to number of sold items - number of returned items. |
Retail sales by product vendor
The Retail sales by product vendor report shows your vendors, and the products provided by each vendor, grouped by point of sale location.
The sales reports use several common terms. This report uses the following additional terms:
| Product vendor | The name of the vendor providing a product. Click the name of a vendor to see the list of products that the vendor supplies. |
| Net quantity | Equates to number of sold items - number of returned items. |
Retail sales by product type
The Retail sales by product type report shows your retail sales by product type, grouped by point of sale location.
Retail sales by Point of Sale location
The Retail sales by Point of Sale location report shows the total sales for each point of sale location.
The sales reports use several common terms. This report uses the following additional terms:
| Product type | The type of product you are selling. For example, hats, shirts, or shoes. |
| Net quantity | Equates to number of sold items - number of returned items. |
| POS location name | The name of the point of sale location where the sale was made. |
Retail sales by staff at register
The Retail sales by staff report shows you the sales made by each staff.
The sales reports use several common terms. This report uses the following additional terms:
| Staff name | The name of the staff who processed the sale. |
| POS location name | The name of the point of sale location where the sale was made. |
| Percent of sales with staff help | The percentage of sales that had at least one staff assigned to line items. |
Retail sales by staff at register (daily)
The Retail sales by staff (daily) report shows you the daily sales made by each staff.
The sales reports use several common terms. This report uses the following additional terms:
| Day | The day that the orders were placed. |
| Staff name | The name of the staff who processed the sale. |
| POS location name | The name of the point of sale location where the sale was made. |
| Percent of sales with staff help | The percentage of sales that had at least one staff assigned to line items. |
Retail sales by staff attributed to sale
The Retail sales by staff attributed to sale report shows your sales by staff who were attributed to line items at checkout.
The sales reports use several common terms. This report uses the following additional terms:
| Staff attributed to sale | The name of the staff who had a line item assigned to them. |
| POS location name | The name of the point of sale location where the sale was made. |