> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.sable.salon/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Understand your reports

> What each report actually tells you, and the handful of numbers worth checking every week.

**Reports** turns everything Sable already knows (appointments, checkouts,
products, clients) into numbers you can act on. You don't need all of them
every week. You need to know where each answer lives.

## The overview

The **Overview** report is the health check, in four bands:

* **Financial**: income, tracked expenses, and net income; revenue with
  processing fees, product costs, refunds, and membership revenue broken
  out. This is "how's the business" in one screen.
* **Performance**: revenue by stylist, rebooking rate, peak booking times,
  payment method mix, and booking sources. Your product ratio (retail
  sales against service revenue) shows against a salon benchmark so you
  know whether the shelf is pulling its weight.
* **Clients**: active clients, new clients, and average lifetime value.
* **Bookings**: completed, cancelled, and no-shows.

## The focused reports

* **Sales** goes deep on revenue: what sold, in what mix, over time.
* **Appointments** covers volume and patterns: how full you actually are,
  and when.
* **Inventory** covers product spend and usage, next to your stock reality
  from [Inventory](/guides/inventory/products-scanning-and-stock).

And when a question doesn't fit a canned report, **Create** → **New
Report** builds one around what you're asking.

## Five numbers worth a weekly glance

1. **Net income.** Revenue is a mood; net is the truth.
2. **Rebooking rate.** The cheapest revenue you'll ever get is the client
   who books the next visit before leaving.
3. **No-shows.** If it climbs, your
   [reminder and deposit settings](/guides/calendar/deposits-policies-and-waitlist)
   are the levers.
4. **New clients.** Growth without retention is a treadmill; watch it next
   to rebooking, not instead of it.
5. **Product ratio.** Below benchmark usually means retail isn't being
   offered, not that clients stopped buying shampoo.

## Reading reports without fooling yourself

* Compare like periods: a color-heavy December against last December, not
  against August.
* One slow week is noise; three is a trend; pick your reaction
  accordingly.
* The numbers are as honest as the inputs. Cash rung up, no-shows marked
  as no-shows, and products tracked: that's what makes these reports
  worth reading.

## Related

* [Checkout, refunds, and receipts](/guides/payments/checkout-refunds-and-receipts)
* [Campaigns, memberships, loyalty, reviews, and surveys](/guides/marketing/campaigns-memberships-loyalty-reviews-and-surveys)
* [Products, scanning, and stock](/guides/inventory/products-scanning-and-stock)

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