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Overview

Your Profit & Loss (P&L) report is the quickest way to answer “Am I actually making money?” It pulls together the money you’ve received and the money you’ve spent over a period you choose, then shows your net profit at the bottom. It’s built on a cash-basis, which means it counts payments you actually received — not invoices you’ve sent but haven’t been paid for yet.

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Where to Find Your P&L

Tap P&L in the sidebar to open /reports/profit-loss. The page is titled “Profit & Loss” with the description “Cash-basis revenue, fees, and expenses for the period.” The Profit and Loss report showing revenue, fees, expenses, and net profit for the period, with a CSV export button

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Choosing a Period

Use the period picker to switch between Month, Quarter, and Year, then pick the specific month or year. Quarters are labeled by their months — Q1 (Jan–Mar), Q2 (Apr–Jun), Q3 (Jul–Sep), and Q4 (Oct–Dec) — so there’s no guessing which quarter is which.

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Reading the Report

The report rows appear in this order: Your Net profit shows in green when it’s zero or positive, and in terracotta when it’s negative. Below the totals, you’ll find a COGS by category breakdown and an Operating expenses by category breakdown so you can see exactly where the money went. The COGS by category and Operating expenses by category breakdowns

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Drilling Into a Row

You don’t have to take the totals on faith. The Revenue row, the Stripe fees row, and each category row are expandable — click one open to see the individual transactions behind it. Each underlying line shows:
  • The date
  • The client (for revenue) or vendor (for expenses)
  • Whether it was Card or Manual
  • The amount
This makes it easy to answer “where did that number come from?” without leaving the report — and to spot a miscategorized expense at a glance. An expanded Profit and Loss row showing the underlying transactions with date, client or vendor, Card or Manual, and amount

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Exporting for Your Accountant

Tap the CSV button to download the year’s figures as profit-loss-{year}.csv — a spreadsheet you can hand straight to your bookkeeper. The same one-tap CSV export lives on your Expenses, Mileage, and Jar → Payments screens too. See Exporting Reports for Your Accountant.

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What “Cash-Basis” Means

Cash-basis accounting counts money when it actually changes hands. So an invoice you sent in March but got paid for in April shows up in April’s P&L — not March’s. This keeps the report tied to the cash that’s really in your account.
Good to know: Because the P&L is cash-basis, an unpaid invoice doesn’t count as revenue until the payment lands. That’s why your P&L can differ from the total of invoices you’ve sent.
Pro tip: Run a Quarter view at the end of each quarter to sanity-check your numbers before they pile up at year-end.
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