Retrieving Gross and Net Sales

Questions
1

The square dashboard generates reports that include Gross Sales and Net Sales for a given period.
Is the payments API the only API needed to generate this report?

This doesn’t seem like the best approach given that each Payments API can only retrieve 100 payments at a time.
If this is the only API needed, how do I obtain returns, discounts and comps for a given period?

2

You will want to use the Orders API for net and gross sales. Within the order are the order objects include fields for line item details, fulfillment details, and order summary data, including the location ID credited with the order. With this information you will be able to calculate the total amount of taxes collected for calculating gross sales and net sales.

3

Bryan to calculate gross sales like in the summary report would the calculation be:

‘gross_sales_money’: {‘amount’: 295, ‘currency’: ‘USD’} minus ‘total_discount_money’: {‘amount’: 0, ‘currency’: ‘USD’} and ‘return_amounts’: {‘discount_money’: {‘amount’: 0, ‘currency’: ‘USD’},
‘service_charge_money’: {‘amount’: 0, ‘currency’: ‘USD’},
‘tax_money’: {‘amount’: 0, ‘currency’: ‘USD’},
‘tip_money’: {‘amount’: 0, ‘currency’: ‘USD’},
‘total_money’: {‘amount’: 0, ‘currency’: ‘USD’}}

4

:wave: I believe gross sales is all the gross_sales_money added together for a given timeframe.

5

Hi All Please can anyone help? I need to calculate the net or gross figure from the VAT figure - does anybody have a formula please? Thank you for any help given. also i found this site https://southafricanvatcalculator.co.za/ in results but don’t know how get the answer