Lets do a quick tour of the metrics shown on flash, and the options available which can allow you to customise your view of flash.
Your view of flash reports can change depending on your selected options, meaning you can check historical and current flash data.
Period Selection
You can select your chosen period from this drop down—past, present, and future— which means you can review past performance and input forecasted revenue.
Period Overview
Period overview will show the data for all days in your selected period, including the days which have not yet passed.
Period To Date
Period to date only shows the days in your selected period, up to and including the current day.
Week View
Week view shows the seven days in the week, starting on the day you elected as the start date when you created the flash report.
Total Net Revenue
The total net revenue is based on the totals entered into the Actual Net Revenue boxes for each day; unless there is no entry into this box, then it takes the number entered into Forecast Net Revenue.
Gross Profit
Gross profit is calculated based on the data entered into Actual, or Forecast if there is no data in Actual, and the total of the orders which have been planned for delivery, or delivered, during the selected period. It is calculated as a percentage and will be green when it is above the budgeted %GP and will be red when it is below the budgeted %GP.
Cost of Sales
Cost of sales is calculated as total net revenue, less the gross profit, the budget is calculated as the opposite of the GP budget. This metric is the pure cost of orders delivered during your selected period, and the percentage will show in green if it is below the budget or red if it is above the budget.
Remaining Spend
Remaining spend is calculated based on total net revenue and the cost of sales budget. It shows the money left over after orders delivered, or scheduled for delivery, during the period have been accounted for in total net revenue — up to the budget, in real terms rather than a percentage.
Detail Table Overview
This is the Flash reports table, it is currently in week view for the first week in September, so it is showing the seven days of the week from Monday to Sunday (since Monday was selected as the week starting day) with the dates displayed.
On the left are the category headings for each line item, you can edit the totals in the lines which are white, while the lines that are grey are generated by our system and cannot be altered.
Actual Net Revenue is the line where you in put your confirmed income, after close of business for that day. The box for any day will only become available to edit once the date for that box has arrived.
Forecast Net Revenue is the line where you put the total you expect to make that day. You can put these in as far ahead as you wish, and you can edit them at any point.
Total Net Revenue is not an editable box, it will populate the total entered into Actual Net Revenue—or Forecast Net Revenue, if no Actual is available.
Total Purchases will automatically generate based on the orders scheduled for delivery, or delivered, in your chosen period.
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You can click the arrow next to the line name to see the total purchases broken down by each individual order for each day.
Custom line items can be added in the management dashboard under Extended Metrics, they can be anything and can add to your net revenue or subtract from it.
Focus Table Overview
The period focus table shows weekly metric for every week in a period. It summarises all the key information from the detail table, giving a quick and easy view of performance colour coded red for budget overspends and green for in-budget totals.
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