Profit Dashboard
Your real profit — sales minus cost of goods minus actual expenses. No estimates.
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Record sales in the Browser POS and expenses in the Expense Tracker — your profit appears here automatically, computed from real numbers.
What is a profit dashboard?
A profit dashboard is a one-screen view of what your business earned after costs over a chosen period. Instead of waiting for a year-end profit and loss statement from your accountant, you see five figures for today, the last 7 days, the last 30 days or any custom dates: revenue, cost of goods, gross profit, expenses and net profit. Two charts sit underneath, revenue by day and expenses by category, so you can see which days carry the business and where the money goes.
For a shop or restaurant owner, sales alone are misleading. A busy week can still lose money if ingredient costs rose or a large repair bill landed. Gross profit tells you whether your prices cover what you pay for stock; net profit tells you whether the business as a whole is paying for rent, staff and power. Watching both every week lets you act on a margin problem within days instead of discovering it when the month's books are closed.
A few details decide how far you can trust the figure. Only completed POS bills count, so cancelled bills never inflate revenue. Cost of goods uses each product's current cost price, so a product with no cost price saved adds nothing to it and makes gross profit look better than it is. Expenses count on the date you gave them in the Expense Tracker, so a large quarterly or annual bill lands in full on that day; judge such periods on a 30-day or custom range.
What the profit dashboard shows
Five profit figures
Revenue, cost of goods, gross profit, expenses and net profit side by side for the period you choose.
Flexible date ranges
Switch between today and the last 7 or 30 days, or set custom dates for a single month or quarter.
Revenue by day
A bar chart shows each day's sales, with the exact amount when you hover over a bar.
Day-wise table
Switch to View table to list revenue and expenses for every day in the range, handy for checking a single day against your cash.
Expenses by category
Horizontal bars rank your spending categories for the period, largest first, so the biggest cost is obvious.
Loss highlighted
The net profit figure turns red when costs exceed revenue for the period, so a losing week stands out.
How to use the free profit dashboard
- 1Bill your sales in the Setu Browser POS and set a cost price on each product so cost of goods can be worked out.
- 2Record rent, salaries, bills and other spending in the Expense Tracker in the same browser.
- 3Open the Profit Dashboard and tap Use workspace on the banner to include your POS sales and product costs.
- 4Pick a range: Today, Last 7 days, Last 30 days, or Custom with your own from and to dates.
- 5Read the five tiles from revenue down to net profit; the net profit figure turns red when the period made a loss.
- 6Tap View table under Revenue by day for day-wise revenue and expenses, and use Expenses by category to find your biggest costs.
Don't count stock purchases twice
If your POS products carry a cost price, the dashboard already deducts the cost of goods sold for everything you billed. Recording the same stock bills as expenses under Purchases deducts them a second time and makes profit look worse than it is. The Purchase Register does this unless you stop it, because its Also record as a business expense box starts ticked, so untick it when you enter resale stock. Keep the Purchases category for things you use up rather than resell, such as packaging or cleaning supplies.
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Frequently asked questions
Net profit = revenue − cost of goods − expenses. Revenue comes from your Browser POS sales, cost of goods from each product's cost price, and expenses from the Expense Tracker — all on your device.
No. The dashboard reads the sales you already billed in the POS and the expenses you already recorded in the Expense Tracker. Nothing to re-enter, nothing to configure.
Never. All calculations happen in your browser on your device. No signup, no cloud, no server.
Gross profit is revenue minus cost of goods: what is left from sales after paying for the stock you sold. Net profit then subtracts the expenses recorded in the Expense Tracker, such as rent, salaries and electricity. A healthy gross profit with a weak net profit usually points to overheads, while a thin gross profit points to pricing or purchase costs.
Revenue comes from Browser POS sales, which the dashboard reads only after you tap Use workspace on its banner. Until then the Revenue by day card asks you to connect, while expenses from the Expense Tracker still appear. If you tapped Not now, reload the page to see the banner again. If it never shows, no Setu business workspace exists in this browser, or your sales were billed on another device or browser.
On the sales side, yes. Revenue is the total of each completed POS bill, including any GST charged on it, so for a GST-registered business the revenue and profit figures include output GST that you collect for the government. Cost of goods and expenses use whatever amounts you entered, with or without GST. For tax filing and returns, rely on your books or your CA's figures.
The dashboard is for viewing and has no export button. For a statement you can print or download as CSV, use the Setu Profit & Loss Statement tool, and export your expenses month by month as CSV from the Expense Tracker. The day-wise table view is also useful for comparing daily sales with your cash book.