Walkthrough · article 01 of 24

The 60-second
close-out, in order.

Six fields, one minute, every evening. Survives a tired Saturday.

Ibrahim Ölmez Ibrahim ÖlmezFounder · nouz · 7 min read · Updated this week
The whole routine. Open Revenue. Type cash + card. Open Expenses. Add any one-off costs. Back to Home — EBIT lands at the top. Done.

The close-out is the one nouz interaction that has to happen every single day. Everything else — Statistics, P&L review, monthly export — can wait. The close-out can't, because every day you skip is a hole in the data that compromises all the analytics built on top of it.

The good news: when you have a fixed order to run through, it really is sixty seconds. The order below is what most owners settle into after a week. It works because every step needs only data that's already in front of you at close-out.

01 Before you start

Two things in front of you: your till's daily total (the Z-report or POS export), and your acquirer's app or terminal showing today's card volume. If you have those, the rest is typing. If you don't — your POS is glitchy, the acquirer app isn't syncing — pick your best estimate and move on. A close enough number today beats a perfect number two days late.

02 The order

  1. 1
    Open Revenue

    Today's date is already selected.

  2. 2
    Type cash (BAR)

    Total cash sales for the day, gross (VAT included).

  3. 3
    Type card (EC)

    Total card sales, gross. nouz applies the fee % to this column only.

  4. 4
    Open Expenses

    Click + Add expense for each one-off cost from the day (supplies, repairs, packaging).

  5. 5
    Pick a category

    Eight defaults — Advertising, Transport, Packaging, Spoilage, Other, the rest. See Expense categories.

  6. 6
    Back to Home

    Today's tile now shows your EBIT. Done.

If you use product sales instead of (or alongside) manual entries, the order changes slightly: in step 2-3, click + Product sale instead of typing cash/card directly. Pick product, type quantity, save. Repeat for each high-volume product. Then add one manual entry for everything else (the catch-all).

03 After you save

The week-so-far strip on Home updates with today's dot. The comparison chip on the today tile compares against the same day last week. If today beat last Tuesday, the chip is green. If not, red. That's your fifteen-second post-close feedback loop.

04 Make it a habit

Don't skip the close-out on a slow day. A blank day in your data is a hole the seven-day comparisons can't use. A logged €0 cash + €0 card day is still useful — it confirms you were closed, not forgetful.

Two tricks that lock the habit in: do it at the same point in your closing routine every day (most owners pick "after the till is counted, before the door is locked"), and don't open nouz earlier in the day. Mid-day glancing tends to derail the close-out routine because you've "already looked at the app" — even though you didn't log anything.

Was this article helpful?

Your vote helps us decide what to write next.

Still stuck? Email support@nouz.co — a founder replies, usually the same business day.