Bring past till sales in
How past sales reach Yes Chef: fetched for you from a SumUp POS Pro till, or brought in by us from a Dines export.
On this page
Past sales are what give your figures something to be compared with: last week, the same weekday last year. There are two ways they get in.
From a SumUp POS Pro till: nothing to do
When the till is connected, Yes Chef fetches up to 400 days of its past sales by itself. The Till page shows how far it has got. See Connect a SumUp POS Pro till.
From Dines: we bring it in
Dines is order and pay at the table. It has no link Yes Chef can read live, so there is no connection to make. What we can do is bring your past Dines sales in from a file of your orders, once. It is not self-service.
What comes across
- Each paid order as a sale, with its date and time, its items and its table.
- The products, as the orders show them, so that Sales & GP can report by dish and products can be matched to your menu.
- An order refunded in full is kept as a voided sale, which counts for nothing.
What does not
- Covers. Dines does not record how many guests were at a table, so imported days have no covers and no spend per head.
- Who served. The sales are not credited to members of staff.
- Orders that were never placed or paid.
- Anything after the file was taken. New Dines sales do not arrive. The import can be run again later with a newer file; what is already in is left alone.
What we need from you
- A file of your past orders from Dines. We will tell you how we take it when we speak.
- Which location in Yes Chef the sales belong to.
How we run it
First a dry run, which writes nothing. It adds the sales up and holds the total against the money Dines actually took. If the two do not agree to within one per cent, we stop and find out why before anything is written. Then we run it for real. If it is wrong, it can be taken back out.
What you see afterwards
- The Till page for the location shows History only: past sales are in, and no live till is being read.
- Sales for those dates appear on Home, on Insights and in Sales & GP, and today’s figures have something to be compared with once a live till is connected.
From any other till
We have not brought history in from any other till. Tell us which one you use and what it can export, at omar@1273.co.uk, and we will tell you plainly whether we can.
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