Fixed costs

Set your monthly fixed costs

A day with $600 of gross profit sounds like a good day. If rent, power, internet and salaries add up to $9,000 a month, you needed $300 before you made a cent. That number should be on the screen, not in your head.

1. Open Settings › Fixed costs

   They live next to your business goal, because they are two halves of the same thing: what you have to cover, and what you want to keep after covering it.

2. Pick the store

   Fixed costs belong to a specific location — one store pays $3,000 of rent and another $1,200. Each one gets its own list, so each one gets its own honest number.

3. Add each expense with its category

   Rent, power, water, internet, phone, insurance, software, base salaries, the lease on the machine. Give it a category, a name you will recognise, and the monthly amount. Add them all — the ones you leave out are the ones that surprise you.

4. The system spreads them by day

   You do not have to divide anything. $9,000 a month becomes what each day has to carry, and that is what gets subtracted in Profit detail to leave you the real net.

5. Watch the gauges change

   On the dashboard, the day and month gauges now measure against a target that includes what the shop costs to keep open. The needle moves for a reason you can explain.