Advanced Insights is currently available to Lightspeed Restaurant customers in North America, Australia, and New Zealand. To get access to this feature, contact your Sales Account Manager or Lightspeed Support.
The Daily Digest is an optional email that summarizes the previous day's key sales activities and data. This quick overview helps you monitor sales, staff performance, and other important metrics at a glance. Follow the steps below to set it up in the Advanced Insights dashboard and start receiving actionable insights to help drive your business forward.
Enabling the Daily Digest
To start receiving the Daily Digest email, you'll need to enable it from the Advanced Insights dashboard. Each Advanced Insights user must complete these steps separately to subscribe to the email.
- Sign in to your Advanced Insights dashboard.
- Click your name on the top header menu, and select Settings.
- In the Notifications section, check the Daily Journal box next to each location you want to receive the Digest email for. The email will be sent to you every day around 5:30 AM local time.
Optionally, you can also enable email notifications for when someone likes a comment you leave in the Logbook or @ mentions you in their comment.
Understanding the Daily Digest
The Daily Digest is emailed every day around 5:30 AM local time to Advanced Insights users who have enabled it. It covers the previous day's sales activity and key metrics. To ensure you receive the Daily Digest in your inbox, add *@lightspeedhq.com to your address book or whitelist all emails from this domain in your email provider.
The Daily Digest is split into multiple sections, each with a different data focus. You'll find information on sales, covers, employees, menu items, and discounts in a series of charts and tables.
Sales
The Daily Digest email begins with an overview of yesterday's sales, including the total net sales amount, discount percentage, and number of voids. This data is then broken down by to show sales information for breakfast, lunch, and dinner dining periods.
For more details, click See all sales at the end of this part of the Digest to view Sales reports in Advanced Insights.
Covers
Next, you can see total covers for the day with a breakdown by reporting shift. This information also appears on a graph that shows the range of your guest count on that same day over the previous four weeks.
Front of House
The Front of House section shows your total number of orders, average order value, average time to close a table, and average amount spent per cover. This information is broken down by employee, and also by reporting shift, to help you see who's performing and who's not doing quite as well.
For more details, click See server details at the end of this part of the Digest to view Servers reports in Advanced Insights.
Back of House
The Back of House section lists the bestselling items for your top three accounting groups. It shows the number of orders and net sales amount per item from the previous day to help you see what's popular.
For more details, click See menu details at the end of this part of the Digest to view Menu reports in Advanced Insights.
Discounts
The top half of the Discounts section shows each discount used, the number of times it was applied, the total monetary value, and other statistics. The bottom half illustrates which employees are using discounts, how frequently, and for how much.