Period Comparison

Open Analytics++ → Överblick → Periodjämförelse. Choose dates for Period A and Period B, or use a preset.

The report shows the number of days in both periods and identifies unequal lengths. The current trading day may still be in progress: equal calendar-day counts do not guarantee equal completed hours. Live has a separate comparison up to the same clock time.

Read changes

Sales, order count and average ticket use relative percentage changes. A zero comparison value has no meaningful percentage change; the view indicates that the comparison value is missing.

Varukostnad % and Bruttomarginal % use percentage points. Moving from 30 to 33 percent means +3 percentage points, not a relative increase of 3 percent.

When either period has tabs with a guest count, Gäster (guests) and Snitt per gäst (average per guest) also appear for A and B, both as cards and in the metrics table. The average is sales on tabs with a count divided by the number of guests, and a split tab counts towards its original tab. Below the cards you see the share of table tabs with a count in each period. If the POS started asking for the count during a period, the periods are not comparable on guests. The measures are hidden with category, product, discount or margin filters.

The sales-change explanation splits the difference into more or fewer tabs at the earlier average ticket and the remaining effect of a changed average ticket. This is a mathematical decomposition, not proof of causation.

Charts and categories

The trend compares Day 1 with Day 1 in each period, which need not be the same calendar date. Expand categories to see products. Antal sålda A/B means units sold, not unique tabs.

Sales amounts include VAT after discounts. Margins use sales after discounts excluding VAT and current cost prices. Check price data and matching filters before comparing.

Follow up a change

1. Choose the period after the change as A and a relevant reference as B.
2. Check that filters and the underlying data match.
3. Read the totals and expand the categories that changed the most. Units sold means items, not unique tabs.
4. Check prices, discounts, availability and costs before you draw conclusions.

The same dates last year are not the same weekdays and not the same Easter holiday. Check opening days before you compare.

The report follows paid tabs and the restaurant's trading day. Use accounting reports to reconcile refunds, VAT and closing periods.