Learn how to use the Booking Volume report, including filtering by date, remembering filters, understanding report columns, and exporting report results.
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Reports > Booking Volume
What more do I need to use this feature?
- Admin or restricted permissions to View all Reports (or Booking Traffic) and Export Data.
Which Checkfront version supports this feature - classic, new or both?
- The Booking Volume report is available to both those using items (Inventory > Items), a key feature of our classic version of Checkfront, and those using products (Inventory > Products), a key feature of our newest version of Checkfront.
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New to Checkfront - Products ✨ Products (Inventory > Products) is the successor feature to (Inventory > Items) and is available in our newest version of Checkfront. Not yet on our newest version and interested in upgrading? Please reach out to our Technical Support team for more information. Discover more product-related help articles here: Products (New). |
Report overview
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The Booking Volume report is a snapshot of monthly bookings, quantity sold, and monetary totals for the past 12 months (default). The amounts shown are a summary of the booking costs and do not include any transaction data (monies received).
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✘ The Booking Volume report does not include Cancellations, Void bookings, and Pre-Bookings. ✘ The Booking Volume report does not include Imported Bookings. ✓ The Booking Volume report does factor in Booking Discounts applied. |
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The Booking Volume report might not line up with the Booking Sales report as the Booking Sales report includes Imported bookings and excludes Discounts. |
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Filtering by date
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By default, the report shows you the Last 12 months, but this can easily be modified by clicking on the date drop-down just above the Date column and selecting another preset period.
The date filter preset options provided include This month, Last month, Last 3 months, Last 6 Months, and All bookings.
You can report on a select date or date range by choosing the Custom option. This opens a date selector from which you can select a specific date or date range.
Remembering filters
Back to topYou can configure your account to retain your filter selections within most reports and features so that you don't have to repeatedly select your preferred filters.
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Learn more about your profile filter settings here: |
Understanding report columns
Back to topThe visible columns for this report are as follows. You can click on the column header to sort the table data ascending or descending.
Date
Reports here are based on individual days rather than a monthly total.
Months for which reports are available in the date range selected. Clicking the column title switches between ascending/descending views.
Bookings
The total number of bookings made through the customer-facing booking page per month. The total number of bookings made for that month. The total of all records listed is displayed in the report's footer.
Quantity
Total quantity (QTY) booked for all items or products per month. Total inventory booked as part of those bookings in the previous column. This might be the total number of tour spots sold for that month. The Total of all records listed is displayed in the report's footer.
Total
The total value of all bookings per month. Revenue generated from the bookings that month. The total of all records listed is displayed in the report's footer.
Sorting the report
Click the header of any column to adjust the sort order of the report based on that column.
Exporting booking volume reports
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You can export yourBooking Volume report using the link in the top right corner.
From the Export modal, you can enter a name for the report and choose the output format.
Save As
Allows you to specify the name of the Export file. By default, the file name is the name of the report. You can edit the name of the file if needed by placing focus on the Save as field and entering a different name.
Format
Export report to MS Excel (XLSX), CSV (Comma-separated Value), PDF (Portable Document Format) or XML (eXtensible Markup Language).
Save To
The report can be saved to your Computer, Email, or Google Drive.
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Learn more about exporting to Google Drive here: |
Columns
Choose to Export Visible columns or All columns (if there are columns that you have chosen to hide in the online report view). In the case of this report, all columns are always visible, so either option gives the same result!
Max Rows
Choose to limit the maximum number of rows to Export (Max Rows) or choose to Export All Rows.
Formatting
Use ISO Dates allows you to choose the format of dates within the Export.
- When selected, you see the format YYYY-DD-MM, for example, 2020-06-09.
- When not selected, you see the format configured with the Date Format setting (Manage > Setup > Locale).
Hiding or showing the chart
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You can Hide the Chart via the icon in the top right corner, this removes the Booking Volume chart from the report. You can then show the chart again by selecting the Show Chart icon.