Reports, VAT and accounting

Reports tab: live X-report for your own open shift.
Cash tab: Z-report at close (locks the shift, posts the journal).

18.1 On the terminal

Tab	What it shows
Menu engineering	Popularity × margin quadrant per product (Stars, Plowhorses, Puzzles, Dogs) with a scatter chart — what to promote, re-price, or drop
Service pacing	Order→fire, fire→bump, order→settle, and seated→first-order timings (average and p90), slowest stations and courses, long-idle tables
Heatmap	Revenue by day-of-week × hour over 7/30/90 days — staffing and prep planning
Server perf	Orders, gross, tips, and average check per server
Accounting	Balanced journal CSV for Xero or Sage/Pastel, any date range
VAT201	SARS-ready return for any period: standard/zero/exempt sales, output VAT @15%, input VAT from received POs, VAT payable — CSV or PDF
End of day	X-report and Z-report CSV export per open shift
Logs	Discounts, voids, and comps with reasons — your shrinkage audit trail

Prices are VAT-inclusive; VAT is extracted at 15/115 per line, after discounts, so discounted sales report the correct VAT.
Cash rounding deltas, tips, refunds, voids, and comps are all tracked separately and reconcile on the X/Z reports.
Every settled sale posts a balanced double-entry journal (cash/card/QR clearing accounts, revenue, VAT, tips). Sales rung offline get their journals generated when they sync. The accounting export reproduces this ledger for your bookkeeper.

Still stuck? Mail support@aurapos.co.za or use the support page — include your venue name and what you were doing.