POS reports can be viewed or printed from the Lightspeed Restaurant app and give an overview of the performance of your business and employees. These reports show sales and payments, the number of receipts, voids, and so much more. POS reports can be accessed for the current day, a specific day, by sales period, or by an employee. The most frequent use of POS reports is for settling your day or shift.
Visit the following links to learn more about each available report.
Period report
The Period report covers the time period from when you started the business day up until you print or view the report. This report shows the totals of each payment method collected from sales, tax related to the sales, and a breakdown by accounting group. To adjust the business day hours, please contact our Support team.
Shift report
The Shift report breaks down sales and business figures by sales period but without the tax and accounting group section known from the Period and Fiscal report.
You find any Shift report for a completed sales period in your Lightspeed Back Office.
User report
The User report shows the sales and related figures for a specific user, including the number of receipts processed, total payments received, and processed and declared tips. Users usually view this report to help settle their shift. Multiple user shifts (one for each active user) can be part of a reporting shift.
You find any User report for a completed user shift in your Lightspeed Back Office.
Drawer report
The Drawer report is tied to a sales period. When starting and ending the shift, the prompt for entering or confirming the float count appears depending on the permissions assigned to the user. This report shows the float amount at the start of the shift, payments taken during the shift, cash amount expected in the drawer, and the final float amount at the time of closing the shift.
You find any Drawer report for a completed sales period in your Lightspeed Back Office.
Fiscal report
The Fiscal report contains the same information as the Period report but covers the whole business day and is only created after closing the business day. The period of a business day starts at 5:30 AM and runs to 5:29 AM the next day by default. To adjust the business day hours, please contact our Support team.
You find any Fiscal report for a completed business day in your Lightspeed Back Office.
What’s next?
Visit the Accessing and printing reports articles to learn how to access and print reports at your POS.
Visit the POS report structure article for more information about the data provided in each report section.