Daily Input Overview

There are 5 default modules within Daily Input:

There are also a number of optional modules which may or may not be active on your portal depending on your individual requirements:

This article will take you through a summary of each screen;

​Daily Sales

Daily Sales is used to input the totals from your End of Day Z Read/Till Report and breakdown the detail of each revenue stream (Food, Liquor, Room Hire etc) to drive your direct sales reporting (that affects your wage%)
There's a comments box which allows you to write any notes/issues for the day which you're able to refer back to. 

Sundry Income
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Sundry Income is for the declaration of any other income into your business THAT DOES NOT DIRECTLY AFFECT YOUR WAGE%. This may look different on your portal to the screenshot example above, depending on the items that have been configured.
Sundry Income tends to be things like;

These amounts will add onto your total daily income, so that your daily banking is correct, but will NOT affect your direct sales and therefore your daily/weekly wage%

Stock Purchases
​The Stock Purchase section allows you to enter your delivery note/invoices into Polaris Data, which will help drive your weekly GP% by adding up your delivery totals (including any petty cash purchases for stock) and calculating a Cost of Goods based on your sales and Opening/Closing stock values (if you declare them).
See the Stock Group Summary help for more information on your GP Calculations. 

Expenses
​This section is for recording anything you purchase via petty cash (i.e. using the money you have on site for your day-to-day takings).
Polaris splits out these purchases into a number of categories, to help you keep track of your petty cash spend. New categories can be added to create a bespoke list, relevant for your business. Contact the Support team for more details. 

Deposits
​If this module is enabled for your business, you can use this as a diary, to track deposits pre-paid for various types of bookings (table booking, function, accommodation etc).
The booking types are fully customisable to your business, to help you track and group your bookings.
You can store booking dates, customer details for each booking and the value of the deposit(s) paid, so that these deposits can be paid into your bank with your daily takings (and so aren't sat in your safe for months and months!) And when the customer visits for their booking, it's easy to redeem their booking, which keeps your daily cash on site accurate to ensure your daily reconcilation is clear and concise. 

Banking
​The final section of your daily input allows you to declare your different banking totals; this might be credit cards, Amex, payments direct to your bank account (BACS), 3rd party payments like Deliveroo or Stripe and Cash.
Like most screens, this can be customised for your business to ensure you have a clear reconcilation on all of the payments into your business each day.  
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