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Reports

BookMyVenue reports: the Z-report and drawer variance, period revenue, product mix and where your bookings actually came from.

Reports are Owner and Manager only. A Staff or Read-only user is told so explicitly rather than shown an empty page — because "no permission" and "no takings" must never look the same.

Every report can be exported to CSV.


Period

Reports → Period is the general-purpose one: pick a date range and see what happened.

  • Quick range buttons for the common spans, or enter dates as YYYY-MM-DD.
  • Revenue and bookings across the period.
  • "No bookings in this period" means the range is genuinely empty — not that something failed.

Use this for a month, a quarter, or "what did last Saturday actually do".


Z-report

Reports → Z is the end-of-day report — the one you run when you cash up.

It covers a single business day, as defined by Settings → Regional → Business day starts. For a venue trading past midnight, this is what keeps the whole night on one report instead of splitting it at 12:00am.

It shows:

Section What it tells you
Takings by tender typeCash, card, gift card — what came in and how
DrawersEach drawer session: opened, closed, opening float, expected, counted, variance
Shift summariesWho was on, per register

Drawer variance

Expected is what the system says should be in the drawer. Counted is what your staff physically counted. Variance is the difference, and it is recorded — not hidden, not quietly corrected.

A variance is information. Over time it is the only way a venue ever finds a till problem, a training problem, or a theft problem. Do not adjust the count to make it balance.

"Day still open" means a drawer session has not been closed yet, so those numbers are not final. Close the drawer, then run the Z.

"No takings recorded for this day" on a day you know you traded is worth a support ticket — see Troubleshooting.


Product mix

Reports → Product mix is what actually sold: which items, how many, what they made.

This is your menu-engineering report. It tells you what to promote, what to reprice, and what to take off the menu — and it is the honest answer to "does anyone actually order the special".

Prices used are the prices things were sold at, not today's prices. Editing a price does not rewrite history.


By source

Reports → Source answers: where did this booking come from?

Source Means
Your own websiteSomeone used the widget you embedded
DirectStraight to your booking page
A campaignA link carrying utm_source / utm_medium / utm_campaign
A referrerAnother site linked to you

You do not have to configure anything. The embed forwards source information automatically — see Embed. Just use normal campaign links when you advertise, and this report will tell you which of them worked.

This is the report to open before renewing an advertising spend.


Exporting

Every report has an export that produces a CSV. Give it to your accountant, open it in Excel, or feed it into whatever else you run.


What reports do not cover yet

Payroll exportNot built. Timesheets and payouts are on screen only — see 05
Cross-venue group reportingPer-venue only in the current app

If either of those is blocking you, tell support — that is useful signal, not a complaint.


Reading them honestly

Three habits worth having:

  1. Run the Z after the drawer is closed, not during service. A day still open is a provisional number.
  2. Check refunds are in the picture. Rejected paid orders are refunded automatically; your net position, not your gross takings, is the real number.
  3. Gift cards sold are a liability, not income, until they are redeemed. Your accountant will care about the distinction.

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Still stuck? Email [email protected] with your venue name, what you were doing and what happened instead. Please don't send passwords — we will never ask for one.