Sales by Category Comparison

This report compares sales and profits between two date ranges such as a comparison from last year to this year.

When the Print button is selected, the Date Selection window opens where you select two date ranges for comparison. You can use the Start Date and End Date fields or the Automatic Dates dropdown list.

Column Sections

Each category is grouped into two date ranges and then the difference between them.

Prior Range

Column Definition

Jobs

Number of jobs. When the option is checked to count jobs by category, this number does not count every job. If there are two jobs for the same category, they will be counted as one.

Labor

Total labor sales. Labor with no category assigned will show under category Not Found. Labor with no technician assigned will show technician as Not Assigned.

Parts

Total parts sales for parts attached to labor operations in job based view. Parts not attached to labor operations will show under category Not Assigned. Parts with no technician assigned will show technician as Not Assigned.

Other

Sales Tax plus Non Taxable Parts Fees plus Supply charges minus Discounts. Sales Taxes and Supply charges are averaged across categories for each repair order.

Total

Labor + Parts + Other

Current Range

Column Definition

Jobs

Number of jobs.

Labor

Total labor sales. Labor with no category assigned will show under category Not Found. Labor with no technician assigned will show technician as Not Assigned.

Parts

Total parts sales for parts attached to labor operations in job based view. Parts not attached to labor operations will show under category Not Assigned. Parts with no technician assigned will show technician as Not Assigned.

Other

Sales Tax plus Non Taxable Parts Fees plus Supply charges minus Discounts. Sales Taxes and Supply charges are averaged across categories for each repair order.

Total

Labor + Parts + Other

Change

Column Definition

Jobs

The difference in the number of jobs

%

The percentage

Labor

The difference in the amount of labor sales

%

The percentage

Parts

The difference in the amount of parts sales

$

The percentage

Other

The different in the amount of the other column

%

The percentage

Total

The different in the total

%

The percentage

Grands Totals

The end of the report show the grand totals.

Drilldown Report

When printed to the screen, this is a drilldown report. You can double-click on any category to open another tab that displays only that row.