Same sales, sliced by how the money arrived. It answers two very different questions: how much cash should be in the drawer, and how much of your revenue is costing you a processing fee.
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Open Reports → Finances → Payment type
Pick a period. The report splits revenue by cash, card, transfer and any custom methods you created.
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Reconcile the cash line against your registers
The cash figure should agree with what your register sessions counted for the same period. When it does not, the gap is either a sale rung to the wrong method or a drawer count that was never done — and both are easier to find this week.
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Reconcile the card line against your processor
Compare the card figure with what your processor says it settled. A persistent difference is usually fees being deducted before deposit, which is worth knowing as a number rather than as a feeling.
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Look at your custom methods honestly
Custom methods — a local bank app, a transfer — are typed values. Lunix records that somebody chose that method, not that the money arrived. This line is the one to check against the actual account, because nothing else will.
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Use it to decide about card fees
The share of revenue arriving on card is the number behind any surcharge decision. If most of your sales are cash, a card fee changes very little; if most are card, the same fee is a meaningful part of your margin.
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Watch the mix over time
The interesting thing here is not one month's split but the direction. A shop drifting from cash to card is a shop whose processing costs are quietly growing, and that shows up here months before it shows up in your profit.
Pro tips
- A method with revenue you do not recognise is usually a custom method somebody created and nobody documented. Tidy the method list rather than the report.
- Reconcile in this order: register sessions, then this report, then the bank. Each one narrows where a difference can be hiding.
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