Reporting Best Practices: Your First Day on Toast
Last updated: Feb 25, 2026, 12:31 PM
Congrats on going live with Toast! We have no doubt it was a great day!
Now that the day is over, we're pretty sure you'd like to check on sales, labor, and how many online orders your kitchen completed.
Below are some tools, tips, and reports that will allow you to take control of your restaurant's performance from the very first day with Toast.
Additionally, check out the Toast Classroom on-demand reporting guide and learn how to set up a daily email that summarizes your restaurant's performance and sends that info straight to your inbox: Create Email Lists and Configure Employee Notifications.
In this Article:
- Reporting Insights
- Sales Reporting
- Labor Reporting
- Cash Management and Deposits Reporting
- Reporting Tips and Tricks
Reporting Insights in Toast Web
It's important for you to be able to closely monitor sales, hourly labor cost % of net sales, and track discounts in real time. All of that is available right on your homepage on Toast Web. Under Quick Actions on the homepage, you can easily pull labor summary and sales summary reports, edit menus, refund checks, manage employees, and check time entries.
Select Edit time filter to view the data from either today or yesterday.
Change the Compared to option to the previous day, same day last week, or same day last year and see how the day is going (or how it went) compared to the same time frame selected. Red and green colors with the percentages for the previous period selected will display in the designated categories showing growth or decline.
Sales Reporting in Toast Web
| Report | Report Overview | Key Features | How to Access This Report |
| Sales Summary Report | The Sales Summary is a comprehensive report that breaks down sales data from the selected date range, showing restaurants a full financial picture of how the business is doing on a day-to-day basis. | The Sales Summary report contains 17 sections or also called "Sales Summary Cards".
You can select the gear icon at the top to change the order they appear on the report. | In Toast Web, navigate to Reports > Sales > Sales summary, or select Sales summary from the Quick Actions section on the homepage.
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| Sales Breakdown Report | The Sales Breakdown report can be used to compare two different sales metrics against each other, including:
| By selecting Sales Category from the drop-down menu, you can find items or menu groups that don't have a sales category or revenue center assigned and can see net sales per category. By selecting Dining Option from the drop-down menu, you can easily see sales for each channel (dine-in, online ordering, third-party ordering, etc.) and compare them to each other. |
