Three numbers to track weekly
Average transaction value, transaction count by hour, and week-on-week change. Together they tell you whether a quiet week was fewer customers or smaller baskets — two problems with completely different solutions.
Staffing to the curve
Hourly transaction data is the cheapest rota-planning tool you have. Most businesses discover they are overstaffed in one part of the day and understaffed in another.
Measuring changes properly
When you change opening hours, pricing or a promotion, compare the same weekday over four weeks rather than day-to-day. Card data makes that comparison trivial and stops decisions being made on anecdote.
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