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Item Popularity

Item Popularity ranks your top 10 best-selling items separately within each shift slot — Breakfast, Lunch, Afternoon, Dinner, Late Night — with a horizontal bar showing relative quantity sold, so you can see what actually sells best in each specific service rather than a single blended ranking.

📍 Menu path: Reports & Analytics → Item Popularity
👤 Who uses it: All roles with the Reports feature enabled

Overview

Items are grouped into five shift slot panels — Breakfast (6am–11am), Lunch (11am–3pm), Afternoon (3pm–7pm), Dinner (7pm–11pm), Late Night (11pm–6am) — each colour-coded and showing its top-selling items ranked by quantity.

Each item row shows a proportional bar (relative to the top item in that slot) and the exact quantity sold, over a selectable date range (default last 30 days).

A slot with no sales in the selected range simply doesn't render its panel, so an empty page section usually means genuinely no data for that shift rather than an error.

Before You Start

Step-by-Step Guide

1 Find your top sellers per shift

  1. Open Item Popularity with your desired date range.
  2. Review each shift panel's top 10 items independently — Breakfast bestsellers can differ completely from Dinner bestsellers.

2 Plan a shift-specific promotion

  1. Identify a slot's top-ranked items.
  2. Use them as anchors for a shift-specific special or combo, or conversely, promote a slower-moving item alongside a proven bestseller.

Every Field & Button, Explained

Field / ButtonWhat it does
Shift slot panelsBreakfast, Lunch, Afternoon, Dinner, Late Night — each with its own top-10 ranking, colour and time-range label.
Quantity barProportional to the top-selling item within that same slot, not across the whole menu.

Tips & Best Practices

Troubleshooting & FAQ

A shift panel is missing entirely.
That slot had no sales in the selected date range — widen the range or confirm orders are being placed and timestamped correctly during that shift.
An item I know sells well isn't in the top 10 for its usual shift.
The ranking only shows the top 10 per slot — a consistently mid-tier seller may simply be outside the cutoff; check the full sales data if you need the complete ranking.