The close-out is the one nouz interaction that has to happen every single day. Everything else — Statistics, P&L review, monthly export — can wait. The close-out can't, because every day you skip is a hole in the data that compromises all the analytics built on top of it.
The good news: when you have a fixed order to run through, it really is sixty seconds. The order below is what most owners settle into after a week. It works because every step needs only data that's already in front of you at close-out.
01 Before you start
Two things in front of you: your till's daily total (the Z-report or POS export), and your acquirer's app or terminal showing today's card volume. If you have those, the rest is typing. If you don't — your POS is glitchy, the acquirer app isn't syncing — pick your best estimate and move on. A close enough number today beats a perfect number two days late.
02 The order
- 1Open Revenue
Today's date is already selected.
- 2Type cash (BAR)
Total cash sales for the day, gross (VAT included).
- 3Type card (EC)
Total card sales, gross. nouz applies the fee % to this column only.
- 4Open Expenses
Click + Add expense for each one-off cost from the day (supplies, repairs, packaging).
- 5Pick a category
Eight defaults — Advertising, Transport, Packaging, Spoilage, Other, the rest. See Expense categories.
- 6Back to Home
Today's tile now shows your EBIT. Done.
If you use product sales instead of (or alongside) manual entries, the order changes slightly: in step 2-3, click + Product sale instead of typing cash/card directly. Pick product, type quantity, save. Repeat for each high-volume product. Then add one manual entry for everything else (the catch-all).
03 After you save
The week-so-far strip on Home updates with today's dot. The comparison chip on the today tile compares against the same day last week. If today beat last Tuesday, the chip is green. If not, red. That's your fifteen-second post-close feedback loop.
04 Make it a habit
Two tricks that lock the habit in: do it at the same point in your closing routine every day (most owners pick "after the till is counted, before the door is locked"), and don't open nouz earlier in the day. Mid-day glancing tends to derail the close-out routine because you've "already looked at the app" — even though you didn't log anything.
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