Theoretical Costs Report

The Theoretical Costs Report allows you to see your theoretical Total Cost and Total Sales for each Recipe/POS Item sold in a given Period or Date Range as well as your establishment's overall Cost %. Refer to the steps below on how to view the Theoretical Costs Report.

Viewing Theoretical Costs Report

1. Click Reports > Reports List from the navigation.
   
   
   
   
2. Click Theoretical Costs under the Point of Sales heading.
   
   
   
   
3. Filter by Period/Date.
   
   
4. Select POS Group, POS Subgroup and/or POS Items for a more granular view (optional).
   
   
5. Click Go to view the results.
   
   
   
   
   

Some things to keep in mind

• Each column in the report can be clicked on in order to reorganize the data. 
  For example you can click on Cost % to see in descending order which POS Item which Recipes/POS Items are costing your business the most to sell.
  
  
• Export the data in this report to Excel by clicking the download button in the upper right.
  
  
• We recommend viewing this report by 'Matched POS Items' for the most accurate cost data.
  
  

Column Key

POS Group: Name of POS Group

POS Subgroup: Name of POS Subgroup

POS Item: Item as displayed in POS system

Recipe: Name of Recipe

Qty: Total sales of POS Item 

Total Cost: Total cost of POS Item’s sales 

Total Sold: Total sales of POS Item

Cost: Cost of single POS Item unit

Price: Price of single POS Item unit

Cost %: (Cost/Price) * 100%

Related article(s)

• Point of Sale based Reports