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Contact and financial reports

What each report in Contacts and Financial shows, which date it counts by, and what it needs to work.

A reference for the reports in two categories: Contacts and Financial. For how to open, read and export a report, see Run a report.

Contacts

Contact Growth

New contacts added over time, and how many went on to be quoted.

  • Figures: Contacts, Added, Reached a quote, Went nowhere.
  • Lists behind the figures:
    • Added: contacts created in the period.
    • Reached a quote: contacts created in the period that went on to be quoted.
    • Went nowhere: contacts created in the period with no quote raised for them since.
  • Chart and breakdown: contacts added per month against the period before; contacts by contact group.
  • Table: recently added contacts, with group, lead source, email and status.
  • Counts by: the date the contact was created.

Interaction Coverage

Which contacts you've been in touch with in the last year, and which have gone quiet. Use it to plan outreach.

  • Figures: Contacts covered, Gone quiet, Never engaged, Dormant customers.
  • Lists behind the figures:
    • Contacts covered: contacts with a quote, job or booking in the last 12 months.
    • Gone quiet: contacts whose last quote, job or booking was more than 12 months ago.
    • Never engaged: contacts with no quote, job or booking ever recorded.
    • Dormant customers: contacts that have gone quiet and have spent money with you before. The highest priority for outreach.
  • Chart and breakdown: contacts by months since their last interaction; what that last interaction was.
  • Table: contacts worth chasing, with their historic value and a priority.
  • Counts by: how things stand today. The reporting period isn't used.

Customer Overview

Who bought from you in the period, and how often.

  • Figures: Buying customers, Average spend, Repeat buyers, One and done.
  • Lists behind the figures:
    • Buying customers: customers invoiced in the period.
    • Repeat buyers: customers invoiced more than once in the period.
    • One and done: customers invoiced exactly once in the period.
  • Chart and breakdown: buying customers per month; customers by contact group.
  • Table: customers by spend.
  • Counts by: invoice date.

Lifetime Value

What each customer has been worth to you over all time.

  • Figures: Customers, Average lifetime value, Top 10% share, Relationships over a year.
  • Lists behind the figures:
    • Customers: every customer that has ever been invoiced.
    • Top 10% share opens Top 10% by lifetime value: the tenth of customers that bring in the most revenue.
    • Relationships over a year: customers whose first and latest invoices are more than a year apart.
  • Chart and breakdown: customers and value by lifetime band; value by band.
  • Table: customers by lifetime value.
  • Counts by: every invoice ever raised. The reporting period isn't used.

Type Analysis

Your contacts broken down by contact group.

  • Figures: Contacts, Ungrouped, Largest group, Most valuable.
  • Chart and breakdown: contacts and value by group; each group's share.
  • Table: each contact group with contacts, share, invoiced value and value per contact.
  • Counts by: all contacts. The reporting period isn't used.
  • Needs: contacts assigned to a contact group.

Geo Distribution

Where your contacts and your work are, by town.

  • Figures: Towns, Largest, Best per contact, No address.
  • Chart and breakdown: contacts and value by town; each town's share of contacts.
  • Table: each town with contacts, share, invoiced value and value per contact.
  • Counts by: all contacts. The reporting period isn't used.
  • Needs: contact addresses with a town.

Repeat Business

How many customers come back, and how often.

  • Figures: Repeat rate, Repeat revenue, Average orders, Typical gap.
  • Lists behind the figures:
    • Repeat rate opens Repeat buyers: customers who have bought more than once.
    • Average orders opens Bought once: customers who have bought exactly once and not come back.
  • Chart and breakdown: new against returning customers, by month; how often customers buy.
  • Table: customers by number of orders, with their first and latest invoices and average gap.
  • Counts by: every invoice ever raised. Only the chart uses the reporting period.
  • Needs: invoices attached to a contact.

Financial

Cash Position

Your bank balances and the money moving in and out.

  • Figures: Bank balance, Money in, Money out, Unreconciled.
  • Chart and breakdown: money in against money out; balance by account.
  • Table: recent bank statement lines, with their status and what they're matched to.
  • Counts by: the bank transaction date. The balance is as at today.
  • Needs: bank accounts and statement lines recorded in Systemise. Without them, the report shows Not tracked in Systemise.

GST Return

Period totals to help you prepare a GST return.

  • Figures: GST to pay, GST collected, GST claimed, Invoices without GST.
  • Chart and breakdown: GST collected against claimed, by month; the parts of the return.
  • Table: one line each for sales, credit notes, purchases and net GST.
  • Counts by: invoice date for sales, and bill date for purchases.

Chart of Accounts Activity

Postings to each account in your chart of accounts.

  • Figures: Accounts posting, Postings, Largest account, Suspense.
  • Chart and breakdown: postings by month; activity by account type.
  • Table: each account with its code, type, number of postings and value.
  • Counts by: the ledger transaction date.
  • Needs: a chart of accounts with postings in Systemise. Without them, the report shows Not tracked in Systemise.

P&L Summary

Revenue against costs for the period.

  • Figures: Revenue, Direct costs, Supplier bills, Net.
  • Chart and breakdown: revenue against cost, by month; where the money goes.
  • Table: one line each for sales, credit notes, materials, labour, supplier bills and net.
  • Counts by: invoice date for revenue, the date the job was completed for direct costs, and bill date for supplier bills. Revenue is shown excluding GST.

Purchase Summary

Supplier bills in the period.

  • Figures: Purchases, Suppliers, Average bill, Not job-costed.
  • Chart and breakdown: supplier spend by month against the period before; spend by supplier.
  • Table: each supplier bill, with supplier, date, due date, value and whether it's attached to a job.
  • Counts by: bill date.
  • Not job-costed is bills not attached to a job.

Revenue vs Costs

Income against direct cost, month by month.

  • Figures: Revenue, Cost, Gap, Tightest month.
  • Chart and breakdown: revenue against cost, by month; what the cost is made up of.
  • Table: month by month, with revenue, materials, labour, bills and what was retained.
  • Counts by: invoice date, bill date and the date jobs were completed.

Outstanding Balances

What customers owe you against what you owe suppliers.

  • Figures: Owed to us, Overdue, Owed by us, Net position.
  • Chart and breakdown: receivable against payable; the customers who owe the most.
  • Table: outstanding invoices, with days overdue and status.
  • Counts by: how things stand today. The reporting period isn't used. Owed by us is supplier bills past their due date.
  • Needs: invoices with an amount still owing. If invoice balances aren't recorded in Systemise, the report shows Not tracked in Systemise.