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# Sales Growth Analysis

This report will allow you to evaluate the pace of which your business revenue is growing by providing you with a clear understanding of growth over multiple periods of time.

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## Open the report

Go to **Reports** > **Sales Growth Analysis** (under Performance).
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## Select the date range

**Start Date & End Date:** The dates that are entered through these filters will coincide with the ***Previous Years(s)*** OR ***Previous Consecutive Periods*** that are chosen.
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## Choose Previous Year(s)

**Previous Year(s):** Will only look at the last *years* of your business growth during the time range you choose. It will also take into account the ***Number of Years*** you have chosen.

![Previous Years](/files/46f5931879b3a67882be9ac80b08ed3bdc2f0bcb)

**Example:** Date Range is June 1st - September 30th, chose "Previous Year(s)", Number of Years is 3

You will be shown the revenue from June 1st - September 30th this year, last year, and the year before that.
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## Choose Previous Consecutive Period(s)

**Previous Consecutive Period(s):** This will run the report for back-to-back time periods based on the date range that you choose.

![Previous Consecutive Periods](/files/36671a26a2d70d000c884f8b9644efae0a06ea8a)

**Example:** Date range is September 8th - September 14th *(7 days)*, chose "Previous Consecutive Period(s)", Number of Periods is 9.

It will show me September 8th - September 14th, September 1st - September 7th, August 25th - August 31st, and so on to show you 9 of those period spans in a row.
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## Select an employee

If you would like to see a specific employee's revenue, choose them from the drop-down.
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## Choose the data to include

Once the time frames are chosen, move onto choose the data you'd like to include:

![choose data](/files/5c271140134cc114ce50357368cc99d1da93da2d)
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## Run the report

Click **Run Report**.

* **“I Need it now”** will run the report immediately and display it on your screen/page as long as you do not exit out.
* **“I can wait for it”** is designed for generating the report, *(even if you exit from the page)*, then saving it to the saved reports folder in the top, right corner of your main Reports page.
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## Sales Growth Analysis Graph

This report will include a graph that is intended to assist you in visualizing the trends in each type of sale. When looking at the graph you can choose to remove a sales filter from the set of data. Simply click on the sales filter that you want to remove from the graph within the color key. This will draw a line through it to let you know it is not included in the graph.

![sales growth](/files/51482536e2fd24e486ba7ba6ebe7525cc947327f)


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