Dashboard
Compare sales against purchases
Read the bar chart that sets total purchases against total sales over a day, week, month or year, and act on what the gap is telling you.
Updated 12 September 2026
This panel shows two numbers side by side in a bar chart: total purchase amount and total sales amount. It is the quickest way to check whether the stock you buy is turning into sales.
Choose the period
The panel carries four filters:
- Daily
- Weekly
- Monthly
- Yearly
Use daily during a busy season to watch the counter. Use monthly or yearly to judge the business over a longer time. One day with only a few transactions can change a lot, so do not read it as a trend.
How to read the gap
- Sales higher than purchases: you are selling through what you bought, and stock is converting into revenue.
- Purchases higher than sales: either you are building stock on purpose before a season, or you are overbuying and your cash is tied up in goods that are not selling.
- Roughly equal: the business is steady. Whether that is good depends on whether you intended to grow.
One period with higher purchases is normal, especially in the month before a festival. If the same pattern lasts three or four months, you have a stock problem. It will also show up in the low stock and top products panels as slow-moving products.
What to do with it
Use this panel as a signal to look closer. When purchases keep running ahead of sales:
- Open Top performing products on the dashboard.
- Switch to the Purchase Items tab.
- Compare it with the Sales Items tab. Products high on one list and missing from the other are where your cash is stuck.
- Open Inventory, then Product List.
- Filter by stock status to find what is not selling.
- Change the next purchase orders to match, instead of repeating the last order.
When sales keep running ahead of purchases, check low stock alerts. If you sell faster than you buy, the shelf will soon be empty.
Where the numbers come from
Both bars come from submitted documents: sales from sales invoices, and purchases from purchase bills. Drafts are not counted. The figures use the fiscal year shown in the top navigation bar. For the named reports behind these totals, open Reports.