Reports by Store Manager for osCommerce - a Key to Your Success!

Store Manager for osCommerce embraces a vast variety of tools and features that can make your management easier and less time-consuming. One of these features is the reports section that enables you to follow the progress of your on-line business and check the well-organized data anytime you need, so that to make sure that your store is working successfully.

OsCommerce Reports feature can provide you with hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and yearly data which is automatically calculated and stored. This will help you manage your business at any time convenient for you.

There are different options available for you while working with reports  - you can easily see the report outline, print, edit report, choose other settings and save the page (report).

Store Manager for osCommerse provides its users with different kinds of reports. These are

• General reports
• Additional reports
• Custom reports
• Reports over time

Speaking about general reports, it’s necessary to mention that this feature is of great help when it comes to filling out your tax report. As soon as the software provides you with such opportunities as saving the report as an image, PDF file or a table by opening it later in other application you will save a plenty of time. All you have to do is import the table into Excel spreadsheet and get the job done.

Additional reports are very similar to general reports, but they are not included into the Shopping Cart installation.

Custom reports are different from others as they can be modified within the Store Manager for osCommerce while in order to modify general and additional reports you should use an external program called Report Tool. Moreover, you are allowed to not only edit the already existing sample reports, but to create the new ones. The user-friendly interface will definitely help you do it better and quicker.

It will take you some time in order to create your own custom report. First, by creating SQL queries you can select all the important and required data. After that, you design the report template and, finally, you can see your new creation. When composing a custom report, it is easy to choose the structure of it - select the color schemes and add different objects that will display the needed information. By using custom reports you can easily gain control over the state of affairs in the on-line store and evaluate the efficiency of your business.