Daily sales and payment summary reports

Purpose

1. Automate collection, aggregation, and distribution of daily sales and payment transactions for alcoholic beverages.

2. Ensure stakeholders receive timely, consistent summaries for financial visibility and compliance.

3. Facilitate accounting reconciliation and monitor outstanding payments.

4. Support inventory management, flag anomalies, and track cash flow via real-time automated reporting.

Trigger Conditions

1. Time-based (e.g., 11:59 PM each day).

2. New sales entry recorded in POS/ERP system.

3. Payment (bank transfer, card, cash) confirmed by accounting or payment platform.

4. Manual run by authorized personnel (ad-hoc reporting).

Platform Variants

1. Xero

• API: GET /invoices, GET /payments, generate daily report via webhook.
  

2. QuickBooks Online

• API: Reports API (Profit and Loss, Sales by Product), automate scheduled report export.
  

3. SAP Business One

• Service Layer API: SalesOrdersService, PaymentInvoicesService; query and export via REST.
  

4. Oracle NetSuite

• REST API: GET /record/v1/invoice, /transaction/payment, schedule saved search and extraction.
  

5. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

• API: Get Sales Orders, Get Customer Payments, configure scheduled flow with Power Automate.
  

6. Odoo

• API: /sale.order, /account.payment endpoints; schedule daily cron for summary export.
  

7. Zoho Books

• API: Sales Orders, Payments, Reports endpoints; schedule daily summary via automation.
  

8. Sage Intacct

• API: readByQuery (ARINVOICE, ARPAYMENT), configure scheduled job for summary creation.
  

9. Square

• Reporting API: Batch retrieve payments and sales, trigger daily at close of business.
  

10. Stripe

• API: List Charges, List Payments Intents; automate daily export for all transaction data.
  

11. Shopify

• Admin API: Orders endpoint, Payments endpoint; trigger report via webhook.
  

12. WooCommerce

• REST API: GET /orders, /payment_gateways, schedule and compile summary.
  

13. PayPal

• REST API: List Transactions, Reporting endpoints; schedule via platform reporting tools.
  

14. Google Sheets

• Sheets API: Read/write cells, automate summary aggregation, trigger via Apps Script timed run.
  

15. Microsoft Excel Online

• Graph API: Update range, summarize via Office Scripts, scheduled job.
  

16. AWS Lambda

• Function: Invoke code to poll sources, aggregate, and distribute summary via email.
  

17. Zapier

• Actions: Retrieve, process, and send report from integrated apps; configure scheduled Zap.
  

18. Slack

• API: chat.postMessage to send daily summary to management channel.
  

19. Gmail

• API: Send summary as daily email to finance/management.
  

20. Twilio SendGrid

• API: Send transactional email with attached summary PDF/CSV to stakeholders.
  

21. Power BI

• API: Scheduled refresh, send alerts or dashboards to recipients with daily summary filter.
  

22. Tableau

• REST API: Automate extraction of summary view and distribution to group emails.
  

23. Monday.com

• API: Create/update board with daily summary item, notify relevant users.
  

24. Notion

• API: Append summary page/database items with daily figures for auditor reference.
  

Benefits

1. Reduced manual workload and risk of human error.

2. Consistent, timely reporting to stakeholders.

3. Improved financial transparency and compliance.

4. Rapid anomaly detection for sales or payments.

5. Better decision-making with real-time insights.

6. Scalable across multi-location or multi-brand operations.