The Labor report displays data over a specified period of time broken down by user. This report details tips, sales, discounts, hours worked for each employee, service charges, and voids. Additionally, you can further customize the report to filter by shifts, tags, display taxes, and adjust the reporting period.

Accessing the Labor report

Access the Labor report directly from the Lightspeed Restaurant Back Office.

1. Log in to the Back Office with your Lightspeed Restaurant credentials.
2. Select Reports > Reports from the navigation bar.
3. Click Labor in the Staff reports section.
4. To adjust the reporting period, follow steps 4a–4b:
   1. Next to the calendar, select a period from the drop-down: Day, Week, Month, Year, Custom.
      Note: When selecting Custom, a start and end date will be displayed. After setting the dates, click Update.
   2. Click the calendar icon and choose a day from the calendar.
5. Optionally, click the toggle include taxes to include taxes in the report totals.
6. Optionally, select a reporting shift from the drop-down in the table to filter the report by reporting shift.
7. Optionally, you may choose to filter by configuration tag, if you have created tags in the Back Office.
8. Optionally, Click an employee’s name and review the employee sales details. Switch between tabs to see gross and net sales by accounting group, accounting profile, or statistic group.

Editing columns on the Labor report

When viewing the labor report in the Back Office, you can enable and disable columns to compare data. To modify columns on the report,

1. Click Edit table to open the column selector.
2. Select the columns you wish to see in the labor report by enabling or disabling them.
3. To arrange the order of the columns, drag and drop the column to its desired position.
4. Click Save.

Editing columns on the Labor report will only change how the report is displayed in the Back Office. When exporting the Labor report, all columns will be visible in the exported file.

Understanding the Labor report

The Labor report displays sales data broken down by employee. Here you can compare hours worked, total revenue, tips collected and other sales information.

• Employee name: Name of the POS user as entered in the Back Office. Click an employee name to see the employee sales details.
• Hours: Total hours and minutes worked.
• Sales: The sum of all sold items, calculated by taking the total item sales - service charge + discounts + voids.
• Voids: The value of all canceled orders and items.
• Service charges: The value of all service charges applied to orders.
• Discounts: The value of all discounts applied to orders.
• Net sales: The total amount of everything sold, calculated by taking the total item sales + service charges - discounts - voids.
• Gross sales: The total amount of everything being sold, calculated by taking the total item sales + service charges + discounts - voids.
• Tips: Total tips collected by employees.
• Total collected: Actual amount of payment received, calculated as net sales + tips.
• Average sales/hour: Average revenue per hour worked.
• Average sales/receipt: Average revenue per receipt.

Viewing employee sales details

Click an employee’s name on the table to get information on the net and gross sales of an employee, tips, and the total collected per payment method.

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