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 checks, as well as total sales that includes an overview of closed checks. You can use this data to analyze daily sales performance and inform staffing decisions during service.
Before you begin
The Live Sales report considers open and closed checks for sales made during your business hours. You can adjust your business hours from Account & Settings > Business information > 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.
- Open your point of sale app and tap More > View Live Sales.
- Tap Refresh to ensure data includes any recent checks.
- Scroll to view all data.