Setting up your café

Open Settings → Business and set your time zone. Everything Rank timestamps — when a session started, which day a sale belongs to, where a report's “today” begins — is measured from there, so getting it right first means the numbers never need explaining.

Finance and Receipts in the same place cover your currency and what prints on a customer's invoice.

Even with a single shop, create the branch. Devices, stock and staff are all filed under one, and adding it later means going back through everything you already created to assign it.

Creating a branch covers the form and what a second location changes.

One card per PlayStation, each with the prices you actually charge: an hourly rate for one player, a higher one for a group, and — if you sell matches rather than hours — a per-game price too.

Adding a device goes through each field. Name them the way your staff already talk about them: “PlayStation 5 — Room 1” beats “PS5-01”.

Create a couple of categories first — Drinks, Snacks — then add products under them with a purchase price, a selling price and the stock you have on the shelf right now.

The purchase price is the one people skip, and it is the one that makes the profit report worth reading. See adding a product.

Every employee gets their own login. Shared accounts make the shift report meaningless, because Rank can no longer tell you who took the money.

Tick only the permissions the job needs — see adding an employee.

On their first day, each employee opens a shift with the cash already in the drawer, works, then closes it by counting what is there. That single habit is what ties the day's takings to a person and a stretch of hours.

Opening and closing a shift covers both ends.