You know the shop is busy.
You don’t know what’s working.
Busy and profitable aren’t the same thing, and the difference is usually buried in a spreadsheet someone rebuilds every month. 8 Star reports on eleven areas of the shop — sales, cash handling, labour, contracts, trade-ins, stock — totalled as the day happens and reconciled to the cash you actually counted.
Eleven insight areasEvery store, one loginReconciled to counted cash
Ask it a different way. It answers instantly.
One store or all of them, this week or this quarter — switch and watch every number resolve again. No export, no pivot table, no waiting until the 5th of next month for somebody to send it to you.
All stores · This week
$12,800▲ 12.3%
SALES MIX
Who sold it
Net sales per employee · this week
Ana R. is carrying 44% of all-store revenue this week.
This is the actual screen. Go through it.
Not a screenshot and not a video — the analytics screen itself, running here. Switch sections, change the range, compare against the previous period. It sits one tab from checkout, tickets and inventory, on the same login your staff already use.
Eleven areas, not one sales chart.
Most systems report on sales and call it analytics. The parts of a phone shop that quietly decide the year — drawer handling, labour against takings, contract collection, what you paid for trade-ins — each get a worked-out view of their own.
Overview
The morning glance — what happened, and what needs you.
Sales
Gross against net, and where the margin actually sits.
Cash
Every drawer event, not just the day's total.
Inventory
What you're holding, at cost and at retail.
RTO
Contracts, collection and what's slipping.
Buyback
What you bought in, and who paid out for it.
Tickets
The repair bench as a pipeline, not a pile.
Devices
Every unit that passed through, individually.
Top sellers
What's carrying the month, by units and by money.
Credits
Store credit issued, redeemed and outstanding.
Time cards
Hours worked against the sales they produced.
The charts that change what you do on Monday.
Revenue going up is nice to know. These are the views that actually change a decision — who to put on Saturday, who to stop rostering on the till, and which best-seller isn’t really your best seller.
Shift coverage
People on the floor, by day and hour
Saturday 2–5pm is your busiest window and it runs on one person. That's not a rota problem you'd ever spot in a sales report.
Drawer accuracy
Average variance per close, by employee
Three people land within a couple of dollars. Dev P. is short on nearly every close — a pattern, not an off night.
Labour cost / sales
Wages as a share of takings, by week
Five of the last six weeks ran over target. Sales held up — the shifts got longer.
Top sellers
The best seller depends on what you ask
Screen protectors win on volume; a screen repair earns nearly 3× the money from a third of the units.
Collection rate
Collected against schedule, this quarter
Every contract payment lands against its schedule, so a plan that slips shows up as a number, not a surprise.
Inventory value
What it cost you, what it's worth on the shelf
$31,600 on the shelf, $53,700 at retail. Knowing both is how you tell dead stock from a good week waiting to happen.
A report is only worth as much as the cash behind it.
Plenty of systems will happily total up what was rung in. That number is fiction if the drawer never got counted. 8 Star reconciles the takings to blind close-out counts, so the revenue on the report is money that actually existed.
Totals, not estimates
Every figure traces back to a transaction and a counted drawer — not a projection or a rounded guess.
Refunds included
Net of returns, so a strong month that quietly gave half of it back doesn't read as a record.
Every store, one login
Own three shops and see all three, or any one of them, without three logins and three exports.
Reports and cash control are the same system. The revenue line reconciles to the same blind counts that flag a short drawer.
See cash control →Nobody has to build the report.
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Work the day
Sales, repairs, trade-ins, contract payments and clock-ins all post as they happen. There's no separate step where someone enters the numbers again.
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Close the drawer
The blind count at close is what the day's takings get reconciled against, so the totals are anchored to real cash.
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Pick the question
Area, store, period, employee. Change any of them and the answer recomputes on the spot — no export, no pivot table.
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Read it anywhere
Same login on your phone at home as on the counter machine, and export to PDF or Sheets when someone else needs it.
Know what's working before the month is over.
Analytics is built into 8 Star OS — the same system that runs your checkout, tickets, drawer and contracts. Start free and see your first reconciled week.