🧾 Sales: The POS Terminal & Efficiency Analysis
The "Sales" tab is split into three functional areas: a form for registering a new sale (the POS terminal), an interactive log of processed receipts, and an analytical table measuring the return on your working time (Time ROI).
Processing a sale in the program is a key action that instantly deducts finished products from showcase stock, logs cash in your Cash Flow Ledger, and calculates net profit.
🖥️ Processing a Sale (POS Terminal)
The form at the top of the screen allows you to record a sale quickly. To do this, fill out the following fields:
- Product Selection: The dropdown displays only finished products currently available in showroom stock (quantity > 0).
- Sales Channel: The channel where the transaction occurred (e.g., Etsy, personal website, social media, or a marketplace). Your final retail price will adapt according to the selected channel.
- Quantity: The number of items purchased by the client.
- Shipping (Logistics): A precise economic tool that the program calculates based on strict rules.
🚚 Economic Logic of Shipping
The program offers two shipping payment modes that impact your financials differently:
- "Paid by Buyer" (Client) Mode: The client transferred funds for both the product and separately compensated you for the shipping cost.
- In Cash Flow: A full inflow is logged (Product Price + Shipping Cost).
- Outflow: A corresponding shipping expense is logged.
- Impact on Profit: Neutral (the shipping cost received directly matches the shipping expense). However, your Cash Flow Ledger reflects a completely accurate cash turnover.
- "Paid by Workshop" (Expense) Mode: You provided the client with free shipping (or covered it at your own expense).
- In Cash Flow: A net inflow is logged for the product price, and an outflow is logged for the logistics company's shipping fee.
- Impact on Profit: Negative. The shipping cost is deducted directly from your net profit on this transaction.
📈 Managing Sales Channels
Different platforms charge varying commissions and require different pricing strategies. In the program, you can configure individual markups for each channel.
Click the gear icon ⚙️ next to the channel selector to open the management window:
- You can add a new channel (e.g., “Shopify” or “Amazon”).
- Specify a custom markup in % (it will be added to the basic recommended retail price calculated in the Calculator).
🧾 Receipt History (Sales Log)
The bottom-left portion of the screen displays the history of all processed sales.
- The table displays the transaction date, sales channel, product name, quantity, and the net profit earned on each receipt.
- The table supports pagination (paged viewing of 20 records), ensuring a smooth, lag-free interface even with thousands of entries in the database.
🏆 Product Rating (Time ROI — Return on Time)
The bottom-right portion of the screen holds one of the most valuable analytical tables for a business owner—the Product Rating by Return on Time.
Traditional accounting only displays absolute profit (for example, selling a bag nets you $50 in profit, while a passport cover nets you $10). This creates the illusion that crafting bags is always more profitable.
OmniCraft ERP calculates Time ROI (hourly profit): The program takes the net profit from a product's sale and divides it by the number of hours you physically spent crafting it (based on the time norm specified in the Calculator).
$$\text{Hourly Profit (Time ROI)} = \frac{\text{Net Profit from Product Sales}}{\text{Total Hours Spent Crafting Completed Items}}$$
Why is this necessary?
This table clearly reveals the "hidden killers" of your time and your true profit engines:
- You might discover that a complex bag yields only $3 per hour due to massive labor hours.
- Meanwhile, a simple passport cover yields $15 per hour because it is crafted in 20 minutes.
- Business Takeaway: To maximize your earnings, it is economically smarter to focus on volume sales of passport covers, while the price of the bag should be raised immediately in the Calculator.