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Daily Sales log

No POS connection? StockBrik still needs to know what went out the door. The Daily Sales page turns your till's end-of-day report (the Z report) into stock data in about 60 seconds - one number per recipe, once a day.

It is also useful in hybrid setups: a market stall or pop-up that trades off a cash box, or a counter line the POS does not itemise properly.

Logging a day​

  1. Go to StockBrik → Daily Sales
  2. Pick the date - today is the default, and you can step back to fill earlier days
  3. Type the portions sold for each recipe, straight off the end-of-day report
  4. Click Save

The grid lists your sellable recipes with your top sellers first, so the numbers you log every single day - flat whites, sausage rolls, victoria sponge slices - are at the top, and the once-a-week items do not slow you down.

A few details worth knowing:

  • Zero is real data. Typing 0 against the brownies records "none sold today", which is genuinely useful - it is different from leaving the row blank, which records nothing.
  • Only the rows you touch are saved. You do not have to fill every row to save a day.
  • You can edit a day later if you spot a mistake - reopen the date and correct it.

Same as yesterday​

If today's sales were close to yesterday's, the Same as yesterday button copies yesterday's figures into the grid in one click - then you nudge the two or three numbers that differ and save.

It is always an explicit, deliberate act. StockBrik never copies figures forward automatically, because a guessed day silently dressed up as data would quietly poison your estimates.

Missing days​

Days you have not logged show as gaps, plainly visible on the date navigation. StockBrik does not invent figures for them. A few gaps will not break anything, but the more complete your log, the better the estimates - if logging daily is unrealistic, aim for consistency on your busiest days.

Make it a closing ritual

The log takes about a minute with the Z report in hand. Pin it to the end of the closing routine - till closed, sales logged, lights off - and your stock estimates stay fresh without anyone thinking about it.

What happens when you connect a POS​

When a POS is connected and syncing, the Daily Sales page hides automatically - the POS replaces manual logging entirely, and there is nothing for you to switch off.

Two things to know:

  • Hybrid setups can keep it. A setting in StockBrik → Settings keeps Daily Sales visible alongside a connected POS, for operators whose POS does not capture everything.
  • POS data always wins where it exists. For any recipe the POS covers on a given day, the POS figure takes precedence over a manually logged one - so there is no risk of counting the same sale twice.

See Integrations for connecting a POS, and How estimates work for how the daily sales log feeds your stock estimates.