Expenses
Use the Expenses page to record your shop's running costs, such as rent, salaries, and electricity. These expenses are used to work out net profit in the Profit & Loss report.
Open it from Finance → Expenses in the Dashboard.
What you manage here
- recording new expenses
- viewing the list of recorded expenses
- editing or deleting an expense entered by mistake
Expense form fields
- Name — for example, "October shop rent"
- Date — when the cost happened; this date decides which report period it falls in
- Amount — the amount in rupiah
- Category — choose one:
- Rent — rent for your shop or workspace
- Salaries — staff wages and salaries
- Utilities — electricity, water, internet, and similar bills
- Supplies — packaging, stationery, consumables
- Marketing — ads, promotions, printed flyers
- Other — anything that doesn't fit the categories above
- Note — a short description (optional)
Typical workflow
- open Finance → Expenses from the Dashboard navigation
- add an expense: fill in the name, date, amount, and category
- add a note if needed, then save
- open the Profit & Loss report to see how it affects net profit
Things to watch
- expenses apply to the whole shop, not to a single branch
- only the owner and admins can see and record expenses; cashiers can't see them — see Staff roles
- don't record stock purchases here — the cost of goods is already counted through the cost price, so recording it again counts the cost twice
- record expenses regularly, for example every week, so net profit doesn't look higher than it really is