Resources to make sense of your Clover sales
Practical guides for merchants: read your numbers, spot your truly good products, buy smarter, and lose less. No jargon, no messy spreadsheets.
Written for merchants, not analysts.
FeaturedProducts4 min read
How to see which products actually drive revenue in your store
Your register tells you what sold yesterday. It doesn’t tell you which products pay the rent. Here’s a simple way to tell the difference.
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Sales
3 guides
Sales7 min read
How to find your busiest days and hours from Clover
You probably have a feel for when your store is busy. The till usually tells a slightly different story. Here's how to read your sales by day of the week and by hour from Clover, and use it to schedule staff, time restocks, and place promotions where they'll land.
Sales7 min read
What your average basket size is telling you about your store
Average basket size — total sales divided by number of transactions — is one of the most useful numbers most merchants never look at. Here's how to read it from your Clover data and what it quietly tells you about pricing, staffing, and what to sell next.
Sales4 min read
How to compare sales across periods without messy spreadsheets
“Things feel slower lately” — do they? Comparing the right periods to each other is the difference between an impression and a fact.
Products
3 guides
Products4 min read
How to see which products actually drive revenue in your store
Your register tells you what sold yesterday. It doesn’t tell you which products pay the rent. Here’s a simple way to tell the difference.
Products7 min read
Which product categories actually carry your store
Your revenue isn't spread evenly across the shelves. A few product categories usually carry the store while the rest ride along. Here's how to read your product mix from Clover data and use it to buy, merchandise, and plan with your eyes open.
Products4 min read
Why your best-selling items are not always your most valuable products
A product can leave the shelf ten times a day and earn less than one that leaves once. Knowing the difference changes how you price, place, and reorder.
Inventory
3 guides
Inventory6 min read
How to plan a season using last year's sales data
The best forecast for this holiday season is what actually sold last one. How to turn last year's numbers into a buying plan you can defend.
Inventory4 min read
How to spot products that sit too long in inventory
Every product frozen on a shelf is cash that can’t work for you. A method to find your sleepers — and three ways to act on them.
Inventory4 min read
How to use sales data to make better inventory decisions
Your past sales are the best buying guide you own. How to turn your register’s history into orders that match what your customers actually buy.
Clover reports
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Clover reports5 min read
How to organize your Clover item catalogue for cleaner reports
Your reports are only as good as your item list. Clean names, real categories, and tidy modifiers turn a confusing export into numbers you can actually use.
Clover reports5 min read
How to get a clean sales export out of Clover
Exporting from Clover is easy. Getting an export you can actually answer questions with is the hard part. A practical method for pulling clean sales data and using it.
Clover reports4 min read
Which Clover reports to review every week
You don’t need to read everything. Four Clover reports, once a week, are enough to stay on top of your sales, your products, and your busy hours.
Clover reports4 min read
When to move beyond basic Clover reports to a dedicated dashboard
Register reports answer “what sold?”. When your questions get bigger than that, here’s how to know it’s time for the next step — without rushing it.
Retail growth
3 guides
Retail growth7 min read
What Your Refund and Void Rate Is Telling You
The day's total looks healthy, but the drawer doesn't quite agree. More often than not, the gap is hiding in the refunds and voids nobody reads back. Here's how to read those two numbers as a rate in your Clover data, and what they tell you about your products and your process.
Retail growth6 min read
When to discount slow-moving stock — and how to decide from the numbers
A markdown is a decision, not a panic. How to use your Clover sales to pick the right items to discount and the right week to do it — instead of one painful clearance in January.
Retail growth4 min read
How to reduce invisible losses in a retail business
Theft isn’t the only loss — and rarely the biggest. Stockouts, expiry, pricing errors: how to catch what quietly eats your margins.
Multi-store
3 guides
Multi-store6 min read
One owner, two registers: why item names and prices should match across your stores
“Coke 500ml” in one store and “Coca Cola Bottle” in the other look like two products on your reports — and a 25-cent price gap you never decided on is costing you margin. Here’s how to line them up.
Multi-store6 min read
How to move stock to the store where it actually sells
The same item can gather dust in one store while customers leave the other empty-handed. Here’s how to catch that mismatch and rebalance stock before you mark it down.
Multi-store5 min read
How to keep an eye on several store locations without drowning in separate reports
With more than one location, the hard part isn’t getting numbers — it’s comparing them. Here’s how to see all your stores at a glance instead of one report at a time.
Your Clover sales already hold the answers. You just need to see them.
CornerPilot connects to your Clover register and turns your sales into simple decisions: products to watch, sleeping inventory, comparisons prepared ahead of time.