You can use the Hourly Sales Dashboard to analyze sales revenue patterns throughout business hours, helping optimize staff scheduling and operational planning based on customer demand. This improves your retail operations efficiency by providing clear visibility into peak trading times, with properly configured hourly sales analysis typically enabling better labor cost management and improved customer service during high-traffic periods.
Understanding hourly sales reporting involves recognizing sales volume versus revenue patterns, outlet comparison capabilities, and real-time dashboard filtering to help retail operators focus on the right staffing decisions, ensuring your retail strategy consistently drives better operational efficiency and customer experience outcomes.
The Hourly Sales Report shows you the breakdown of sales revenue on an hourly basis during standard business hours (by default this date range is today date).
This report would quite often be used as a reference to know when you need more staff on to cope with the demand of sales in store. Both managers and business owners will find this report a key part of their Outlet planning.
To open this report click on the "Dashboards > " link on the POS landing page, then click the "Hourly Sales" Tab at the top of the page.
Tip: To select multiple outlets use the Outlet drop-down in the top right-hand corner
You also can choose whether to show the Sales by Sales $ Amount or by Sales Qty Sold amount by selecting the "Show by Volume" check box next to the date range field.
Once you have configured your filters as required you can then mouse over the dot's on the chart to see the time period and Sale figure / volume figure for each hour displayed.
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