Log your first day:
revenue, expenses, today's EBIT.

Your first close-out is the moment nouz becomes real. Until you've logged a day, the Home tab is mostly placeholder text. After 90 seconds of typing, it tells you whether you made money today — and the next morning, you can see whether tomorrow is starting better or worse than the same day last week.

01 What do I need before I log my first day?

Have two things in front of you, both listed below: your till's daily total — the Z-report from your POS, or the day's receipts if you ring up by hand, with cash and card split out separately — and your acquirer's app or terminal for today's card volume, in case the Z-report split is fuzzy. You don't need products set up yet; your first close-out works fine with manual entries.

• Your till's daily total — the Z-report from your POS, or the day's receipts total if you ring up by hand. You need cash and card split out separately.
• Your acquirer's app or terminal — for today's card volume, in case the Z-report split is fuzzy.

If you don't have products set up yet, that's fine — your first close-out works with manual entries (a single number per cash/card column). You can add products later and start logging product sales once your catalogue exists. See Logging revenue when you don't have products yet.

02 How do I log my revenue?

Open Revenue — the day's date is already selected — and you have two paths in, both detailed below. Manual entry lets you type the day's totals as two numbers, cash (BAR) and card (EC); it's fastest when you don't have products set up or only have the daily total. Product sale lets you pick a product and type a quantity, with COGS auto-filling from the snapshot. Both can coexist on the same day.

• Manual entry — type the day's totals as two numbers: cash (BAR) and card (EC). Fastest if you don't have products set up yet, or if you only have the daily total.
• Product sale — pick a product, type the quantity. COGS auto-fills from the snapshot when you set the product up.

Both methods can coexist on the same day — useful when most sales were product-based but you took a one-off €40 cash payment that doesn't fit a SKU. See Manual vs product-sale revenue for when to use each.

03 How do I log my expenses?

Open Expenses and click + Add expense. Each one takes four fields, covered step by step below: the amount (VAT inclusive), a category from the eight defaults, an optional note, and save. Only log variable costs here — things that rise when you're busy. Rent, base salaries and insurance are fixed costs you set up once, and nouz allocates those as a daily slice rather than hitting the single day you log them.

1. 1
   Amount

   Total cost, VAT inclusive.

2. 2
   Category

   Pick from the eight defaults — Advertising, Transport, Staff extra hours, Packaging, Repairs, Meals, Spoilage, Other.

3. 3
   Note

   Optional. Useful for "60 bottles of oat milk" or "broken espresso steam wand".

4. 4
   Save

   Done. Add another for each separate cost from the day.

Only log variable costs here — things that go up when you're busy and down when you're not. Your rent, your base salaries, your insurance: those are fixed costs, set up once. The difference matters because nouz handles them very differently in the P&L (fixed costs are allocated as a daily slice across every day; variable costs hit only the day they're logged).

04 How do I read my EBIT?

Go back to Home. The today tile now shows your EBIT — the number that answers "did today pay?". Below it, the week-so-far strip starts to take shape. After seven days of close-outs, the Statistics tab unlocks day-of-week patterns.

05 What happens tomorrow?

Tomorrow morning, before opening, glance at the home screen. You'll see yesterday's EBIT, your week-so-far, and a small chip comparing yesterday to the same day last week. That chip is the one to watch — same-day-of-week comparisons are how shops actually run.

Repeat the close-out for seven days. After a week, the Statistics tab unlocks day-of-week patterns, your break-even, and the SKU that's quietly drifting. Most owners say day eight is when nouz starts to feel useful — not day one.