The widest sales view. Where Weekly shows you which day moved, Monthly shows you whether the year is going anywhere.
Choosing
Two dropdowns.
The month — any month you have data for.
The comparison — like Weekly, Monthly has its own picker, independent of the organization-wide setting:
- Same month last year
- Same month 2 years ago
This is per user. It does not touch your Dashboard, your Daily, or anyone else's screen.
Why year-over-year, and only year-over-year
There is no "last month" option, on purpose.
February against January tells you that February is shorter and colder. It is not a business signal. A restaurant's year has a shape — patio season, holidays, January — and the only honest comparison for a month is the same month, a year ago.
What it shows
Net sales, guests, checks and average check for the month, against the month you picked.
Days run on the business day, so the month does not lose its late-night sales at either end. See Key concepts.
Reading it
Monthly is not where you catch problems — by the time a month is closed, it is history.
It is where you check whether the thing you have been doing all year is working. Prices went up in March; is April up more than costs? The patio opened three weeks late; how much did it actually cost?
For "what happened last Tuesday", use Weekly or Daily.
New venues
A venue that opened four months ago has nothing to compare against last year. The comparison will be empty, not zero.
That is correct. An empty comparison is honest; a fabricated one is not.
Next
Check Analyse — from the month down to a single bill.