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Today dashboard

Your live operations view — how today is pacing vs the same-weekday baseline, where the action is happening, and what's running hot or cold.

Written by HB

What this dashboard is for

The Today dashboard is your live operations view. It answers one question all day long: "Are we on pace, ahead, or behind today — and which parts of the business are driving that?"

Open it any time during service. Numbers refresh on every load.


The core concept: "same-weekday, 4-week baseline"

Almost every chart compares today against a baseline: the same weekday over the previous 4 weeks. If today is a Tuesday, the baseline is the last 4 Tuesdays. Every weekday has its own rhythm, so this compares like for like.

To keep in-progress hours fair, the baseline is truncated to "by-now": at 2:30pm, today is compared to where the last 4 Tuesdays stood at 2:30pm — not their full-day totals.


The colour code

  • Complete (solid green line, or green bars) — closed and paid orders. Booked revenue.

  • Open (paler green point or bar segment) — tabs still running. Where today would land if every open tab closed right now.

  • Projection ("- - proj", green dotted) — where today is heading if the current pace continues. Shown on the two hourly charts only.

  • 4w avg (orange dashed line, or orange dot on the bar charts) and 4w range (orange band) — the baseline's average path and its lowest-to-highest spread across the 4 weeks.

How projection is calculated: today's pace so far (complete + open) is compared to where the baseline average stood at this hour; that ratio is applied to the baseline's remaining path. If the baseline is at 40% of its day and today runs 110% of that pace, the projection extends today by 110% of the baseline's shape. Because it scales the average, a very strong day can project above the 4w range band — that's expected. Projection appears only after the baseline has accumulated about 3% of its typical day, so early-morning numbers don't swing wildly.


The charts, top to bottom

1. Revenue | Today (incl. open) & 2. Orders | Today (incl. open)

Revenue Today including open orders

Orders Today including open orders

The two headline numbers at the top of the page. Revenue | Today (incl. open) is everything rung up so far today — completed orders plus tabs still open — as one figure. Orders | Today (incl. open) is the same idea for order count.

The percentage underneath compares today to the average of the last 4 same weekdays, measured at the same time of day. Green with an up arrow = ahead of a typical same weekday by this hour; red with a down arrow = behind. The smaller grey number is that baseline average itself. Because the comparison is time-matched, a mid-afternoon reading is fair — it never compares a half-finished day against full days.

3. Revenue | Today vs same weekday

Revenue Today vs same weekday

Cumulative revenue building hour by hour ("Time of Day" is the hour each order was opened, Bangkok time; the 15:00 point covers up to 15:59, and late-night hours past midnight stay at the end of the axis).

  • Green solid line = today's completed revenue, cumulative.

  • Pale green point at the current hour = today including open tabs.

  • Green dotted line = the projection through end of day.

  • Orange band + orange dashed line = the 4-week range and average.

Reading it: green above the orange dashed = ahead of a typical same weekday. Hugging the bottom of the orange band = at the soft end of your range.

4. Orders | Today vs same weekday

Orders Today vs same weekday

The same chart for order count. Revenue up while orders are down means bigger tickets, not more customers — worth knowing which one is driving the day.

5. Revenue | Today vs past 7 days & 6. Orders | Today vs past 7 days

Revenue Today vs past 7 days

Orders Today vs past 7 days

One bar per day for the last week, with each bar's total on top. Today's bar has two segments: complete (green) and open (pale green) — so today's total is everything rung up so far, including open tabs. Past days show their final figures. The bar 7 days back is the same weekday last week, the most direct comparison. Hover any bar to see the complete/open split.

7. Revenue | by Channel Type

Revenue by Channel Type donut

Revenue by Channel Type bars

Two views of the same split, side by side on the dashboard. The donut shows how today's revenue (including open tabs) divides across channels, with today's total in the centre — dine-in and takeaway in Papaya greens and oranges, each delivery partner in its own brand colour. The bars show revenue per channel so far today (value on top) vs the typical amount by this time of day (orange dot = the average of the last 4 same weekdays, completed orders only, measured up to the current time). A bar above its dot is ahead of normal. A channel can appear in the bars with a zero value but no donut slice — that means it usually sells by now but hasn't rung anything up today. Delivery partners are shown by name; other channels grouped by type. Revenue here = charged totals, incl. service charge & tax, after discounts.

8. Revenue | by Menu

Revenue by Menu donut

Revenue by Menu bars

The same donut-plus-bars pair per menu. Revenue here = item subtotals (before service charge, tax and order discounts), since SC and tax belong to the whole bill, not one menu. Long names are shortened. This basis difference is why menu figures don't sum to the channel chart.

9. Revenue | by Category

Revenue by Category

Per menu category, same bars-vs-dot idea and same item-subtotal basis — the quick way to spot a category running hot or cold vs its usual pace.

10. Quantity | Best Sellers

Quantity Best Sellers

Today's 25 top-selling items by quantity (green bars, count on top) vs the quantity each would typically have sold by this time (orange dot). A bar above its dot is selling faster than usual — useful for prep and 86-ing decisions.


How "today" is defined

Today is the outlet's reporting day (business day), not the calendar date — late-night orders after midnight belong to the evening's business day. Every "today" figure on this dashboard includes open tabs alongside completed orders; the charts that break the two apart label them separately. The 4-week baselines (orange averages, ranges and dots) use completed orders only, since past days have no open tabs. Cancelled orders don't count at all. All times are Asia/Bangkok.

Filters

One filter: Outlet. In the merchant dashboard it's pinned to your outlet automatically.

What this dashboard does NOT show

  • History beyond 4 weeks — the Trends dashboard.

  • Per-order or per-payment detail — the Daily Summary Report.

  • Who sold what — the Staff dashboard.

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