How to do the night audit

Night audit is the discipline that keeps the books honest. It costs five minutes per shift and saves hours of forensic work the week after. This article walks through the page and the close routine.

Where it lives

Dashboards → Night Audit. The page loads with your shift's data — payments collected since you opened the till, orders processed, reservation activity. Switch the View toggle (top) between actual balance and expected balance to spot variances.

Payments by method

The headline section. Cash, Card, Bank Transfer — each method's total. The Cash row is what your physical drawer should match. Counted cash less than expected? Look for missed entries (a sale you took cash for but didn't record). Counted cash more than expected? Look for over-rings or change errors.

Orders and reservations tables

Below the payments summary, two tables list every POS order and every reservation payment your shift touched. Drill in if a number looks off — open the order or reservation in a new tab, verify line items, confirm the payment was recorded against the right method and account.

Multi-currency

If you accept multiple currencies, the page splits payments by currency. Count each cash drawer separately — €120 and ALL 5,000 are not interchangeable for the close.

Closing routine

1. Open the page. Let it load fully — payments and orders pull progressively.
2. Count physical cash. Reconcile each currency drawer against the system's Cash row.
3. Spot-check the Card and Bank totals against your terminal end-of-day printout.
4. Investigate any variance before closing. Cancelled or transferred payments can show as expected but uncounted — make sure those are filtered correctly.
5. Click the PDF export button. Save or print for the file.
6. Log out. The next shift's user logs in and starts a fresh shift window.