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BIZ Cafe gives you two reports that answer the questions you ask most often: how did we sell today, and did the till balance at the end of the shift. Both are reachable from the Desk workspace and are available to the Cafe Admin role.

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Who Uses Reports

Cashiers see their own shift figures while closing the till, but the standalone reports are for the Cafe Admin.

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Cafe Daily Sales

The Cafe Daily Sales report gives you a day-by-day view of trading. Use it to see how much you sold on a given day, how sales split across payment methods, and how taxes and discounts add up. Open it from the Daily Sales report shortcut on the BIZ Cafe workspace.
Cafe Daily Sales report showing orders, paid orders, gross revenue, tax collected, and average order value
Typical uses:
  • Compare sales across days of the week to spot your busy and quiet periods.
  • Check the tax collected for a period before reconciling with your accounts.
  • See the effect of discounts on a day’s takings.

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Cafe Session Report (Z-Report)

The Cafe Session Report is the shift Z-report. It summarises a single till session: the total sales, the split by tender (cash, card, UPI), the expected versus actual cash, and the resulting excess or shortage. Open it from the Z-Report shortcut on the BIZ Cafe workspace.
BIZ Cafe Z-Report showing opening, expected, counted, and variance amounts by payment mode
This is the report you read at every shift change. It reflects the figures captured when the cashier closes the till, so it is the authoritative record of how a shift balanced.
The Z-report draws on the Cafe Closing Entry. To understand how those figures are captured, see Till Sessions.

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Upstream and Downstream Dependencies

  • Cafe Daily Sales depends on submitted bills (Cafe Invoices). The more accurately orders are billed, the more reliable the report.
  • Cafe Session Report depends on a closed till (a submitted Cafe Closing Entry). A shift that is never closed will not produce a complete Z-report.
  • Both reports sit downstream of the background accounting that submitting a bill creates, so they agree with your books.

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Best Practices

  • Read the Z-report at every shift change, not just at the end of the day. Catching a discrepancy early makes it easy to explain.
  • Reconcile Cafe Daily Sales against your accounts periodically. They should agree because café sales post to accounting in the background.
  • Investigate any excess or shortage the same day. A small variance is normal; a pattern is a process problem worth fixing.