provide a "compare to" option of same day of the week last year
You currently offer a sales comparison with the same date of the previous year, but not the same day of the week. Our business is heavily variable based on the day of the week; comparing Saturday, June 5, 2021 to Friday, June 5, 2020 is not very useful. But comparing Saturday, June 5, 2021 to Saturday, Jun 6, 2020 would be very useful. Our previous point-of-sale system offered this functionality.
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Jim Romano commented
Comparing sales comps to the same DAY (last week or last year) and NOT the same DATE is what we need. Currently it compares the exact date year over year but we need to compare a Monday vs. Monday or Saturday vs. Saturday, etc for the information to be useful. Comparing DATES leads to comparing different days which is not helpful for restaurants/retail. ALSO, comparing HOURLY trends is needed. If I check sales at 9am vs. previous week, is shows me sales until 9am vs. the ENTIRE day of the previous week. (Knowing I am down 94% because it's only 9am is not useful). It should compare by HOUR so that at a glance we can see where we are for the day vs. previous period up to the current hour. xxx trend report does both of these things and it is VERY useful.
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Steven Roth
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The Manage My Business app in the Clover marketplace offers this feature, both for monthly and yearly comparisons. It also supports yearly comparisons for holidays like Easter or Mother's Day, even though the date changes from year to year.