Get live sales data for your restaurant
About live sales data
You have access to real-time data for your sales during service with the live sales report.
Live sales provides details about open checks, as well as total sales that includes an overview of closed checks. You can use this data to analyze daily sales performance and inform staffing decisions during service.
You can also include open check data in the Sales report on your point of sale. The Sales report offers a filter to optionally show open checks alongside closed orders, so you can review all activity in one place. This is turned on by default.
Before you begin
The Live Sales report considers open and closed checks for sales made during your business hours. You can adjust your business hours from Square Dashboard. Learn how to create and manage multiple locations.
The live sales report shows the performance of a shift in real time.
In addition to viewing your live sales reports on a mobile app, your Square Dashboard homepage also features your order volume and sales performance for each business location. Learn how to use Square AI to get insights about your business.
The open checks filter for the Sales report is available on the Square POS app (iOS and Android) and Square Dashboard for web and turned on by default.
Open live sales report
You can open your live sales report from the Square POS app with full service, quick service, or bar mode enabled, the Square Restaurants POS app, or the Dashboard app.
Exclude open checks in the Sales report
The Sales report on your point of sale can include open check data alongside closed orders. This is useful during shift changes — for example, you can filter by team member and include open checks to review food sales for tip-out calculations. Open check data is included by default. To turn it off:
From the Square POS app:
:1. Open the Sales report on your point of sale.
- Locate the open checks filter option in the report filters.
- Toggle the filter off to exclude open check data in your Sales report results.