Not roughly. Not what you remember. The actual number — every sale, every payment method, every shilling that moved through the till. Can you produce it right now?
Most boutique owners cannot. They have a feeling. But the actual number — verified, broken down, sitting there waiting to be read — does not exist.
If you cannot tell what you made last Thursday, you cannot tell whether this Thursday is better or worse. You are running a business on instinct and memory, and they are not the same as information.
The problem is not laziness. It is structure. A notebook does not produce a daily summary. You would have to do all of that yourself, every day, which is work most people cannot sustain.
So the information disappears. And you run on instinct.
Stoka produces a shift summary automatically when each shift closes. Date, staff name, total sales, M-Pesa, cash, expected float, actual count, discrepancy. You do not have to calculate it. It is there.
Last Thursday is there. Every day is there, in the same format, comparable, readable.
That is what it means to actually know what you made. Not a feeling. A number.