Get live sales data for your restaurant
About live sales data
You have access to 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 include an overview of closed bills. You can use this data to analyse daily sales performance and inform staffing decisions during service.
You can also include open bill data in the Sales report on your point of sale. The Sales report offers a filter to optionally show open bills alongside closed orders, so you can review all activity in one place. This is turned on by default.
Before you begin
The Live Sales report considers open and closed bills for sales made during your opening hours. You can adjust your opening hours from Square Dashboard. Learn how to create and manage multiple locations.
The live sales report shows the performance of a shift in real time.
In addition to viewing your live sales reports on a mobile app, your Square Dashboard homepage also features your order volume and sales performance for each business location. Learn how to use Square AI to get insights about your business.
The open bills filter for the Sales report is available on the Square POS app (iOS and Android) and Square Dashboard for web and turned on by default.
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 Restaurant POS app or the Dashboard app.
Exclude open bills in the Sales report
The Sales report on your point of sale can include open bill data alongside closed orders. This is useful during shift changes – for example, you can filter by team member and include open bills to review food sales for tip-out calculations. Open bill data is included by default. To turn it off:
From the Square POS app:
:1. Open the Sales report on your point of sale.
- Locate the open checks filter option in the report filters.
- Toggle the filter off to exclude open check data in your Sales report results.