Daily sales performance reporting

Purpose

1.1. Automate the generation, consolidation, and delivery of daily sales performance reports for an airsoft supply store.
1.2. Reduce manual report creation, eliminate data silos, improve transparency on sales trends, and enable time-sensitive, data-driven decisions.
1.3. Facilitate cross-channel sales data integration (POS, e-commerce, in-store), inventory comparison, staff performance tracking, and anomaly detection.

Trigger Conditions

2.1. Scheduled daily execution at store closing time or midnight.
2.2. Manual trigger for on-demand reporting by store manager or admin user.
2.3. Trigger on batch-sales import completion within POS system.

Platform Variants

3.1. Shopify
• Feature/Setting: Admin API → `/admin/api/2023-01/orders.json` — fetch daily orders by date filter.
3.2. Square
• Feature/Setting: Reports API → `ListPayments` endpoint, filter by `created_at` for current date.
3.3. Lightspeed Retail
• Feature/Setting: Retail API → `/sales.json`, apply `timeStamp` date range filter.
3.4. Vend (now Lightspeed XSeries)
• Feature/Setting: API → `/sales` endpoint, extract sales for target date range.
3.5. WooCommerce
• Feature/Setting: REST API → `/orders`, use `date_created` for daily data.
3.6. Magento
• Feature/Setting: REST API → `/V1/orders`, filter on `created_at` for report day.
3.7. QuickBooks POS
• Feature/Setting: API → `GET /salesReceipts`, specify `TxnDate` range.
3.8. Amazon Seller API
• Feature/Setting: Reports API → `createReport` with `_GET_FLAT_FILE_ORDERS_DATA_` type, fetch daily results.
3.9. BigCommerce
• Feature/Setting: Orders API → `/orders`, filter sales by submission date.
3.10. SquareSpace Commerce
• Feature/Setting: Orders endpoint, filter by `fulfillmentStatus` and `createdOn`.
3.11. Salesforce Commerce Cloud
• Feature/Setting: Open Commerce API (OCAPI) → `/orders`, supply date filters.
3.12. SAP Business One
• Feature/Setting: Service Layer API → `/Orders`, extract daily sales documents.
3.13. NetSuite
• Feature/Setting: REST API → `/record/v1/salesOrder`, use `lastModifiedDate` filter.
3.14. Oracle Retail Xstore
• Feature/Setting: Xcenter API → `/sales`, filter sales records by session date.
3.15. Xero
• Feature/Setting: Accounting API → `/Invoices`, filter invoices/receipts by `Date`.
3.16. Google Sheets
• Feature/Setting: Sheets API → Read and aggregate sales rows with today’s date.
3.17. Airtable
• Feature/Setting: List Records API → filter records by daily sales timestamp.
3.18. Microsoft Excel Online
• Feature/Setting: Graph API → `/workbook/worksheets`, filter and summarize sales entries.
3.19. Slack
• Feature/Setting: Chat API → `chat.postMessage`, deliver summary to team channels.
3.20. Gmail
• Feature/Setting: SMTP or Gmail API → Send email with daily sales PDF/CSV attachment to stakeholders.
3.21. Power BI
• Feature/Setting: REST API → Push daily datasets or trigger refresh for up-to-date visuals.
3.22. Tableau Online
• Feature/Setting: REST API → Schedule or refresh workbook with daily sales data.

Benefits

4.1. Rapid access to accurate, cross-platform sales insights for management and staff.
4.2. Enhanced operational efficiency and less administrative overhead.
4.3. Automated anomaly alerts and sales trend notifications.
4.4. Improved visibility for inventory planning and staffing adjustments.
4.5. Supports data-driven decision making and better forecasting.