The Home tab is intentionally sparse. Three elements, top to bottom, designed so you can read the whole thing in three seconds before opening the shop — and another three seconds at close-out to confirm today's number landed where you expected.
Every other tab in nouz exists for a specific job (Revenue for logging sales, Statistics for digging into patterns). Home is the one place that answers the daily question in a glance: what happened, and is it normal?
01 Today's tile
The biggest number on the page. It's today's EBIT — your gross revenue, minus everything subtracted on the way to profit. Green if positive, red if negative, with the absolute amount shown in the tile in your business currency.
In the corner of the tile, a small chip shows the comparison against the same day last week (last Tuesday vs this Tuesday, not yesterday vs today). Day-of-week comparisons are how shops actually run — Mondays are different from Saturdays, and comparing them is meaningless. The chip turns green if today is ahead of last week's equivalent, red if behind.
If today hasn't been logged yet, the tile shows a "Close today" prompt instead of a number. That prompt links directly to the Revenue tab with today's date pre-selected.
02 Week-so-far strip
Seven dots in a row, one per day of the current week (Monday through Sunday by default). The size of each dot scales with gross revenue; the colour tracks EBIT (green if positive, red if not). It's a quick visual of how the week is trending without you having to open Statistics.
Three dot states to know:
- Solid dot (any colour). Day was logged. Size = gross, colour = EBIT.
- Outlined dot. Future day — hasn't happened yet.
- Dashed outline. Past day with no log — either you were closed (intentional) or you forgot (catch up).
03 The home sentence
One plain-English line under the strip, generated from your data: "Today is on track to beat last Tuesday", "This week is your best week of the month so far", or "You're three days behind on close-outs". The logic lives in app/home/hero.tsx — it picks the most useful sentence from a small set of templates based on which one applies.
04 Reading it before opening
The most useful time to look at Home is the morning, before the first customer. The whole tab loads in under a second and tells you:
- How yesterday closed. Today's tile shows yesterday's EBIT if you logged it last night.
- How the week is shaping up. Strip pattern shows whether you're on track or having a slow week.
- Whether you should expect a big day. Same-day-last-week comparison gives you a baseline.
Three seconds of reading on Monday morning sets expectations for the week. Three seconds on Saturday morning tells you whether to staff up or whether the weekend is starting weak.
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