# Sales by Item Report in the Back Office

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In the back office, go to the ‘Sales by item’ section.

At the top, you can set the period for the report: today, yesterday, this week, this month or custom.
You will see information about your sales by items. The top 5 items will be displayed according to the ‘Net sales’ along with the total amount sold next to it.

For the ‘Sales by item chart’ on the right side, you can choose to see the data either as a Bar, Line or Pie chart and also group it in Hours, Days, Weeks, Monthls, Quarters, or Years.

At the bottom, you can see a table with the value of parameters for each item.
You can also setup and customize the displayed columns by clicking on three vertical lines icon on the right-hand side of the header.

Parameter options include:

SKU - Stock Keeping Unit is a unique code given to each item. See details in How to Add Items in the Loyverse Back Office

Category - the category of the item

Items sold  -  the total number of the item that was sold during the selected period

Gross sales - the total revenue for the item for the selected period. See details in Sales Summary Report in the Back Office

Items refunded - the total number of the item that was refunded during the selected period

Refunds - the total amount refunded for the item during the selected period. See details in Sales Summary Report in the Back Office

Discounts - the amount of all discounts on the item for the selected period. See details in Sales Summary Report in the Back Office

Net sales - Gross sales minus the cost of discounts and sales returns for the selected period. See details in Sales Summary Report in the Back Office

$$Net Sales=Gross Sales - Discounts - Refunds$$

Cost of goods - the item cost

Gross profit - Net sales minus Cost of goods of the item for the selected period

$$GrossProfit = Net Sales - Cost Of Goods$$

Margin  - the item’s margin for the selected period, calculated as the ratio of Gross profit to Net sales

$$Margin = {Gross Profit \over Net Sales} \ 100\%$$

Taxes - the amount of taxes applied to the item for the selected period

You can export Sales by Item Report for the desired period in CSV file by clicking on the ‘Export’ button at the top of the data table.