Understanding dates in reports

Each order has two dates:

1. Start Date - start date is recorded when first item is added to order.
2. End Date - end date is recorded when Close Order button is successfully pressed (payment was taken etc).

Window Orders shows only Start Date.

But all reports (sales by day/week/etc, journal) are created based on filtering End Date.

One exception is related to z-out and end of day report.

The difference between sales by day report and z-out/end of day report is explained as the following:

All sales by day/week/month and other reports count sales from 0:00 to 23:59 based on filtering End Date.

While z-out/end of day reports count "working day". So the working day may be finished at 1:30 at night, for example. This could be a problem in difference between these two types of reports.

In future versions we will add End Date column to window Orders. Thus it will be more clear with understanding reports.

See also:

• Reports