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Get live sales data for your restaurant

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Who is this article for?
  • Account owners or team members with the reporting permission to view limited sales data. Set permissions in Square Dashboard.
  • Square for Restaurants Plus or Premium subscribers.
  • Sellers with full service, quick service or bar mode enabled on Square Point of Sale app.

    • About live sales data

    Square for Restaurants allows you to see real-time data for your sales during service with the live sales report.

    Live sales provides  details about open bills, as well as total sales that includes an overview of closed bills. You can use this data to analyse daily sales performance and inform staffing decisions during service.

    Before you begin

    • The Live Sales report considers open and closed bills for sales made during your  working hours. You can adjust your working hours from Account & Settings > Businessinformation > Locations in Square Dashboard.

    • The live sales report shows the performance of a shift in real time.

    Open live sales report

    You can open your live sales report from the Square POS app with full service, quick service or bar mode enabled, the Square Restaurants POS app or the Dashboard app.

    On an iPad

    1. Open your Point of Sale app and tap More > View Live Sales.
    2. Tap Refresh to make sure data includes any recent bills.
    3. Scroll to view all data.

    On Square Register

    1. Open your Point of Sale app, then tap More > View Live Sales.
    2. Tap Refresh to make sure data includes any recent bills.
    3. Scroll to view all data.

    On the Square Dashboard app

    1. Open the Square Dashboard app and tap the person icon.
    2. Tap Bill reporting.
    3. Select All bills.

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