3.1 Pay, expenses, profit and reports

Closing the day (Course 1 Module 2) tells the owner what came in each day. This lesson is the rest: what went out, and what was kept.

Staff & payroll (Account & Settings, for owners and managers): add each person the business pays, with their job, monthly pay and how they're paid. They don't need to use Lynk. Each month, Record this month's pay: each person's pay, any Bonus or allowance, deductions with a reason, then Record pay. Recording doesn't send money; pay them as usual. Lynk keeps the payslips and adds the total to expenses. When someone leaves: They've left.

Expenses (Income & expenses, with Expenses switched on): What was it for?, amount, category, how it was paid, and a receipt photo. Then Record expense. By chat: Paid 120 for transport to Makola, cash.

The money page shows money in, spent and Kept, month by month. Profit is only right if everything is in Lynk: sales, invoices, expenses, pay and stock bought.

Reports

• Overview: Sales today, Owed to you, Needs you, and Where your sales came from.
• Shop reports: the Monthly report, Best-selling products, Estimated profit, Stock value, Branches side by side, and Download (CSV) for the accountant.
• Ask Lynk AI: How were sales this week? · What are my top five services? · How much do customers owe me?
• Your morning brief (on by default): each morning, today's bookings, orders to get ready, money owed, anything running low and yesterday's sales.