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Weekly Sales

CostingBrik tracks roughly how many of each recipe you sell per week. This single figure powers your weighted margin analysis and your what-if scenario annual-impact projections - because a menu full of high-margin dishes only delivers those margins if the high-margin dishes are the ones actually selling.

The figure comes from one of two places:

  • POS data - pulled automatically from your connected till, as a rolling average.
  • A manual estimate - a number you enter yourself, used when no POS sales exist.

POS data always wins. Your manual estimate is the fallback for recipes (or whole sites) without till data.

Manual entry​

If you have not connected a POS, or a particular recipe has no till sales yet, you can enter an estimate by hand:

  1. Open the recipe (Recipes then click the recipe name).
  2. Find the Avg. Weekly Sales card in the Recipe Information panel.
  3. Click the figure (or Set estimate) and type how many you sell in a typical week.
  4. Press Enter or click away to save.

There is no need to be exact. A sensible guess - "we sell about 40 flat whites a week" - is enough to make your weighted margins meaningful. You can refine it over time as you learn your sales patterns.

tip

Estimates are per recipe, so set them on your bestsellers first. Those are the dishes that move your weighted GP% the most.

POS data​

When your POS (for example, Square) is connected and a recipe is linked to its till item, Brikly replaces the manual estimate with a rolling average of actual sales.

  • The average covers the last 12 months of complete weeks (up to 52 weeks). The current part-week is excluded so the figure is not skewed by a half-finished week.
  • The recipe detail card labels it, for example, "42 units/week - 52-week avg from Square" so you can see it is real data, not an estimate.
  • Newer connections show a limited-data note until enough history builds up - the average becomes more reliable as more complete weeks are recorded.

You do not need to do anything to enable this beyond connecting your POS and linking each recipe to its till item. Once linked, the figure updates automatically.

On the recipe list​

The recipe list has a Weekly Sales column (shown by default; you can hide it from the column toggle). Each row shows the best figure available:

  • A POS-derived recipe shows its weekly average, for example 42/wk.
  • A recipe with only a manual estimate shows the estimate with a small est. marker, so you can tell estimates from actuals at a glance.
  • A recipe with neither shows a dash.

If you filter the list to one location, the Weekly Sales figure rescopes to that site, so you see how each recipe performs there rather than across the whole group.

Multiple locations​

For multi-site operators, the headline figure is the combined total across all your sites. Where a recipe sells at more than one location, an info icon next to the figure reveals a per-location breakdown - so you can see that your flat white does 18/week in Camden but 24/week in Soho.

To focus on a single site, either filter the recipe list to that location or, in the AI assistant, ask about a specific location (see Connector example questions).

info

The per-location breakdown is POS-only. A manual estimate is a single number for the recipe and cannot be split across sites.