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The 60-second daily routine: how owner-operators actually keep books current
Three years of watching cafés, retailers and salons close out their books taught us one thing: nobody wants a "system." They want a 60-second ritual that survives a tired Saturday. Here's the routine, in four micro-steps.
Ibrahim Ölmez
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12 May
A daily-P&L template you can paste into any spreadsheet, today
A daily-P&L template for a small business needs nine rows, in this order: gross cash, gross card, tax, transaction fees, COGS, variable costs, fixed-cost slice, EBIT, running monthly total. Below is the template — copy it into Google Sheets or Excel and you have a working daily ledger by lunch.
Ibrahim Ölmez
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04 May
The close-out checklist for cafés: nine lines, three minutes, every night
A café close-out checklist needs to fit on one printed card by the till: count cash, pull the Z-tape, log waste, drop the day's invoices, eyeball EBIT. The nine-line version below is what survived two years of testing across cafés in Vienna, Berlin and Prague.
Ibrahim Ölmez
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22 Apr
Retail close-out checklist: end the trading day on a real number
A retail close-out checklist needs to handle three things a café's doesn't: returns, stock-on-hand sanity, and the gap between SKU-level COGS and what actually sold. Eleven lines, four minutes — printed below in the order we use it.
Ibrahim Ölmez
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14 Apr
The boutique salon close-out checklist (tips, services, retail in one go)
A salon close-out checklist has to do what a café's and a retailer's do, plus the thing nobody warns you about: separate the tip flow from the revenue flow, cleanly, every night. Below: a ten-line card, four minutes at lock-up, written for a 1–4 chair boutique salon.
Ibrahim Ölmez
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03 Apr
nouz first-week onboarding checklist: from sign-up to your first weekly P&L
A small-business P&L onboarding checklist is mostly about order: do the right things in the right week and the first weekly P&L makes sense. Below is the seven-day plan we walk new nouz customers through — 90 minutes of setup spread across the week, ending with a clean Sunday-evening report.
Ibrahim Ölmez
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19 Mar
Setting up your products in nouz: COGS, margin, the things to get right first
To set up a product with COGS correctly: enter the sale price the customer pays, then enter the unit cost to you (broken into ingredients if it's prepared on-site), and tag the category. Everything downstream — daily EBIT, weekly margin, statistics — runs off those two numbers. Here's the walkthrough.
Ibrahim Ölmez
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05 Mar
Why nouz snapshots COGS at the moment of sale (and what that means for your reports)
A COGS snapshot means each sale carries the cost-of-goods that was true at the moment it was sold, not whatever the cost is today. It's why your March margin doesn't flicker when April milk goes up — and the single most important design choice in how nouz computes profit.
Ibrahim Ölmez
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20 Feb
The clean cash-and-card handover at shift change: a 5-minute walkthrough
A clean cash handover at shift change in a café needs three things: a mid-day Z-tape, a counted drawer with a written total, and a re-set float. Five minutes between the outgoing and incoming shift. The version below works for cafés with two daily shifts and prevents the "phantom discrepancy" that haunts month-end.
Ibrahim Ölmez
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10 Feb
The Monday-morning staff numbers meeting: a 10-minute template
A weekly staff numbers meeting template needs to do three things in ten minutes: share last week's EBIT honestly, name the one number to move this week, and end with a single concrete action per person. The agenda below is what works in cafés, salons and small retail; we use it ourselves at nouz.
Ibrahim Ölmez
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28 Jan
The supplier-invoice workflow that doesn't pile up by Friday
A supplier-invoice workflow for a small business needs to hit one rule: every invoice gets entered the day it arrives, in under 60 seconds. The five-step process below works for cafés, retail and salons — and turns the Friday pile of paper into a Friday folder of zero.
Ibrahim Ölmez
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14 Jan
What to do when you miss a day: the back-date workflow without breaking margin
To backdate an expense or revenue entry for a small business: enter it against the date it actually happened, not today. nouz lets you backdate within 30 days; the entry uses the COGS and tax rules that were live on that historical date, so your margin reporting stays accurate. Here's the full workflow.
Ibrahim Ölmez
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12 Dec