Daily profit calculator for small shops.
Enter today's revenue and costs — see your real daily profit (EBIT) in seconds. Same formula nouz uses every day, free, no signup. Numbers stay in your browser.
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Two minutes. Defaults work for most small shops — change any number to fit yours.
Today's profit (EBIT)
How this calculator works (same formula nouz uses).
Most owners glance at gross sales and call it "today's number." That is the lie. Your real daily profit only appears after five deductions: the VAT baked into your prices, the fees your card processor takes, the cost of the goods you actually sold, your other variable costs, and today's fair share of rent and salaries. This calculator runs exactly that math, the same way nouz does it every day.
The formula is two lines: Gross − VAT − Card fees = Net revenue, then Net revenue − COGS − Variable costs − Daily fixed slice = EBIT. VAT comes out of gross because till prices already include it and that money was never yours. Card fees hit card sales only, never cash. And the daily fixed slice is your monthly fixed costs divided by 30.4375 (365.25 ÷ 12, the true average month) so every day carries the same weight.
A worked example
Take the defaults. You ring up €380 cash and €1,420 card, so gross revenue is €1,800.00. At 20% VAT, the tax carved out is 1,800 × (0.20 ÷ 1.20) = €300.00. The 1.5% card fee applies to the €1,420 of card sales only: €21.30. That leaves net revenue of 1,800 − 300 − 21.30 = €1,478.70. Now subtract today's costs: €540 COGS, €80 other variable costs, and a fixed-cost slice of €6,800 ÷ 30.4375 = €223.41. Your EBIT for the day is 1,478.70 − 540 − 80 − 223.41 = €635.29. That is what the shop actually earned — not the €1,800 on the till roll.
What a healthy number looks like
A single day is noisy: a strong Saturday can show a 40%+ margin because it only carries one day's fixed slice, while a dead Tuesday can go negative. Judge the trend, not one reading. As a rough rule of thumb, over a full month a small brick-and-mortar shop that is doing well keeps roughly 5–15% of net revenue as EBIT. Consistently below zero means your prices or fixed costs are wrong; consistently above 15% is excellent. The point of a daily number is catching the drift weeks before the monthly statement would — one weak week is a nudge to reprice or trim waste, not a year-end surprise you cannot undo.
Common mistakes
- Counting gross as profit. The €1,800 on the till still owes VAT, fees, and cost of goods — more than half of it, in this example.
- Ignoring the fixed slice. Rent does not pause on quiet days. Leaving it out makes every day look better than it is.
- Applying card fees to cash. Cash never gets a processing fee; charging it one understates cash days.
- Forgetting variable costs. Bags, breakage, delivery, small waste — they are real and they belong in the day.
When to use it — and what's next
Use this at close every day, the moment the till is counted, so a bad week is a Tuesday problem and not a month-end shock. One calculation is a snapshot; the habit is what changes the business. When you want the day saved automatically instead of re-typed, start from the daily profit and loss template, then pressure-test the pieces with the break-even calculator and the cash flow runway calculator.
Common questions
How does this daily profit calculator figure out my real profit?
It runs the same formula nouz uses: Gross minus VAT minus Card fees gives Net revenue, then Net revenue minus COGS minus Variable costs minus your Daily fixed slice gives EBIT. Real profit only appears after VAT, processing fees, the cost of goods you sold, your variable costs, and today's share of rent and salary — never from gross sales alone.
Why is the daily fixed slice calculated as monthly divided by 30.4375?
Rent does not pause on weekends, so monthly fixed costs are spread across every day for an honest daily P&L. Dividing by 365.25 divided by 12, which equals 30.4375, means every day in February carries the same slice as every day in March, so no calendar quirk pushes your profit up or down arbitrarily.
Why is VAT taken out of gross sales?
In Austria and most of the EU, prices entered at the till already include VAT, and that tax was never really yours since it is owed back to the state. So real revenue is gross minus VAT, with a default of the 20% standard Austrian rate that you can change to your own.
Why do card fees apply to card sales only?
Cash does not get a processing fee, but card does, typically 1 to 2 percent. The calculator applies the fee only to the card portion of the day so you are not penalising cash sales for a cost they never incurred. That is exactly how nouz splits it.
With the default numbers, what is today's profit?
Cash €380 plus card €1,420 gives €1,800 gross. Take out €300 VAT and €21.30 in card fees to get €1,478.70 net revenue. Subtract €540 COGS, €80 other variable costs, and a €223.41 fixed slice, and EBIT is €635.29 — the shop's real profit for the day, versus €1,800 showing on the till.
Is a single day's profit enough to judge the business?
No — one day is noisy. A busy day shows a high margin because it carries only one day's fixed slice, while a slow day can go negative. The value is the trend: checking it daily lets you catch a bad stretch weeks before the monthly statement would reveal it.