A sales dashboard for bike shops: repairs, bikes and accessories on one page
A bike shop earns money from bikes, parts and service work, and each behaves differently. A dashboard separates them, so you can see which one drives your slow weeks and which one carries the season.
Service work is often the steadiest part of a bike shop. Seeing it as a share of revenue, week by week, helps you plan staffing for the repair bench.
What to track
| Revenue by category | Splits new bikes, used bikes, parts and accessories, and service. |
|---|---|
| Service work share | Shows how much of your revenue comes from repairs and tune-ups. |
| Weekly and seasonal trend | Shows your spring ramp-up and winter slowdown. |
| Top accessories and parts | Shows what to keep in stock. |
| Average transaction | Separates big bike sales from everyday sales. |
What a one-page dashboard looks like for bike shops
This is a sample for a fictional business, built the way we'd build yours: the headline number first, then the pattern across the week, then the top sellers.
Fictional business and made-up numbers, shown to illustrate the layout.
What to look for
- A big bike sale can make one week look great. Look at service and accessories separately to see the steady base.
- Watch repair volume ahead of spring alongside bike and parts sales; the two often move together.
- If accessories sell well at the counter during repairs, a small display there may pay for itself.
Data that usually works for bike shops: exports from Lightspeed-style retail systems, Square, Shopify, or a spreadsheet.
How to get your sales data out
Menu names change, so if you can't find these, tell us what system you use and we'll point you to the right place.
- Square: in your Square Dashboard, open Reports, choose a sales report and use Export.
- Shopify: in the Shopify admin, open Orders and use Export, or export from a report under Analytics.
- Etsy: in Shop Manager, go to Settings, then Options, then Download Data, and choose orders.
- Clover, Toast and other registers: look for a Reports or Export option and choose CSV or Excel.
- A spreadsheet or notebook: type up a few weeks with the date, what sold and the amount. That's enough to start.
You don't need to send customer names, emails, phone numbers or card details. We'd rather you leave them out.
Questions
My shop uses retail software with its own reports. Why would I need a dashboard?
Built-in reports are often long lists. A dashboard gives you one page that shows what changed and what to look at, so you spend minutes, not an evening.
Can you separate repairs from product sales?
Yes, if your export identifies the item or category. If it doesn't, we can suggest a small change so it does.
Is there a minimum amount of data?
A few weeks of sales is enough to start. More history gives better trends.