Log your first day:
revenue, expenses, today's EBIT.

Your first close-out is the moment nouz becomes real. Until you've logged a day, the Home tab is mostly placeholder text. After 90 seconds of typing, it tells you whether you made money today — and the next morning, you can see whether tomorrow is starting better or worse than the same day last week.

01 Before you start

Have two things in front of you:

• Your till's daily total — the Z-report from your POS, or the day's receipts total if you ring up by hand. You need cash and card split out separately.
• Your acquirer's app or terminal — for today's card volume, in case the Z-report split is fuzzy.

If you don't have products set up yet, that's fine — your first close-out works with manual entries (a single number per cash/card column). You can add products later and start logging product sales once your catalogue exists. See Logging revenue when you don't have products yet.

02 Log revenue

Open Revenue. The day's date is already selected. You have two paths in:

• Manual entry — type the day's totals as two numbers: cash (BAR) and card (EC). Fastest if you don't have products set up yet, or if you only have the daily total.
• Product sale — pick a product, type the quantity. COGS auto-fills from the snapshot when you set the product up.

Both methods can coexist on the same day — useful when most sales were product-based but you took a one-off €40 cash payment that doesn't fit a SKU. See Manual vs product-sale revenue for when to use each.

03 Log expenses

Open Expenses. Click + Add expense and fill in:

1. 1
   Amount

   Total cost, VAT inclusive.

2. 2
   Category

   Pick from the eight defaults — Advertising, Transport, Staff extra hours, Packaging, Repairs, Meals, Spoilage, Other.

3. 3
   Note

   Optional. Useful for "60 bottles of oat milk" or "broken espresso steam wand".

4. 4
   Save

   Done. Add another for each separate cost from the day.

Only log variable costs here — things that go up when you're busy and down when you're not. Your rent, your base salaries, your insurance: those are fixed costs, set up once. The difference matters because nouz handles them very differently in the P&L (fixed costs are allocated as a daily slice across every day; variable costs hit only the day they're logged).

04 Read your EBIT

Go back to Home. The today tile now shows your EBIT — the number that answers "did today pay?". Below it, the week-so-far strip starts to take shape. After seven days of close-outs, the Statistics tab unlocks day-of-week patterns.

05 What happens tomorrow

Tomorrow morning, before opening, glance at the home screen. You'll see yesterday's EBIT, your week-so-far, and a small chip comparing yesterday to the same day last week. That chip is the one to watch — same-day-of-week comparisons are how shops actually run.

Repeat the close-out for seven days. After a week, the Statistics tab unlocks day-of-week patterns, your break-even, and the SKU that's quietly drifting. Most owners say day eight is when nouz starts to feel useful — not day one.