[ main menu ] It is important for all business to keep track of the orders they get. By tracking orders on a regular basis one can evaluate a products or even an entire stores success rate. The Hostahoy Shopping Cart provides you with an easy way to automatically generate up to the minute sales statistics using all the orders in your processed orders database (you must remember to move your orders from the pending database to the processed orders database by clearing your orders). Generating Reports The sales report screen consists of two pull down menus. Each menu contains several choices as to how you want your report to display the statistics. Once you make your selections, hit the "View Report" button. The report will be generated and the option bars will remain on the page ready for you to generate your next report. Report type - There are two basic report types: 1) Number of each product sold and 2) Total sales in [currency]. The first option displays the total number each product that was sold for the chosen time interval as well as the full product name or the time interval. The second option displays the total amount in your chosen currency (ex. dollar, pound, yen) for each customer ID in the given time interval just the time interval. Time interval - There are six different time intervals to choose from.
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