Reporting & Analytics
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- Luminous: Your Data-Driven Ecommerce Powerhouse
- Comprehensive Reports Out of the Box
- Flexible Customization
- Specialized Reports You Didn’t Know You Needed
- Key Takeaways
- Which Report Answers Which Question?
- Tips for Getting More From Your Reports
- Common Questions
- Endless Possibilities with Data-Driven Insights
Luminous: Your Data-Driven Ecommerce Powerhouse
Luminous offers a robust suite of reports and analytics designed to give you deep insights into your operations. Think of it as Power BI, but with all of your relevant operational data already in it.
Comprehensive Reports Out of the Box
Luminous comes with a wide range of pre-built reports, including:
- Detailed Sales Order Reports
- Wholesale Invoicing Breakdowns
- Top SKUs Reports
- B2B Portal Reports
- Invoice Audit Logs
- Margin Reports
These reports cover key areas of your business, providing clarity on your sales, margins, invoicing, and much more.
Flexible Customization
What sets Luminous apart is the flexibility to customize reports to meet your specific needs. The report builder lets you easily add tables, apply filters, and choose from various chart types—whether it’s a simple table, a pivot table, or a line chart. You can drag and drop columns and data from your data sets into filters and visuals, and add formulas for basic business intelligence. As long as the data is in the system, it can generally be displayed in a compelling way.
Specialized Reports You Didn’t Know You Needed
Luminous goes beyond basic reporting. Here are a few examples of the more specialized reports our users benefit from:
- Production Yield Summary: Track predicted vs. consumed raw ingredients during the manufacturing process. This is ideal for brands managing their own production and needing a clear view of material usage.
- Commissions Report: If you manage wholesale sales reps, Luminous can generate a basic commissions report, helping you stay on top of payouts.
- Orders Dashboard: Visualize where most of your customers are concentrated, giving you a better understanding of your key markets and where to focus your efforts.
- Forecasting: Analyze your sales trends with columns that show 60-day, 30-day, and 7-day sales, plus 30-day sales velocity, to get days on hand and a quantity to purchase. See how MRP forecasting works.
Key Takeaways
- Reports out of the box: Sales orders, wholesale invoicing, top SKUs, B2B portal, invoice audit log and margin reports are ready to go.
- A built-in report builder: Tables, pivot tables, filters, charts and formulas, with drag-and-drop data sets.
- Operational data included: Because your sales, inventory, purchasing and production live in Luminous, the data is already there to report on.
- Fringe reports, too: Production yield, sales rep commissions, customer concentration and forecasting.
Which Report Answers Which Question?
- “What are my best sellers?” Top SKUs report.
- “Are we actually making money on this?” Margin report.
- “What did our wholesale accounts order and pay?” Wholesale invoicing breakdown and B2B portal report.
- “Who changed this invoice?” Invoice audit log.
- “Are we using more raw material than planned?” Production yield summary.
- “What do we owe our reps?” Commissions report.
- “Where are our customers?” Orders dashboard.
- “How much should we reorder?” Forecasting, with days on hand and quantity to purchase.
Tips for Getting More From Your Reports
- Start with the built-in reports: They cover the most common questions, so you may not need to build anything custom.
- Use pivot tables to compare: Pivoting by channel, SKU or month makes trends easy to spot.
- Clean data in, clean reports out: Reports are only as accurate as the data behind them, so keep SKUs mapped and costs up to date.
- Closing the books? See how to use Luminous reports for reconciling inventory with your accountant.
Common Questions
Do I need a separate BI tool?
For many operational questions, no. Luminous includes out-of-the-box reports and a report builder with tables, pivot tables, filters, charts and formulas.
Can I build my own reports?
Yes. You can add tables and filters, choose chart types, and drag and drop columns from your data sets.
What data can I report on?
As long as the data is in Luminous, it can generally be displayed in a report.
Endless Possibilities with Data-Driven Insights
Whether you’re managing raw ingredients, tracking commission payments, or forecasting inventory needs, the use cases for Luminous reports and analytics are practically endless. If the data exists in the system, it can generally be turned into useful insights, helping you run your business more efficiently.
With Luminous, you’re not just looking at numbers—you’re getting real, usable insights to drive better decision-making. Book a demo today!
Video transcript
Reporting Built on Your Operational Data
Luminous gives you a plethora of reports and analytics out of the box. Think of our reporting back end as a Power BI, but with all of your relevant operational data.
“Pretty cool.” “Yes, yes it is.”
We can give you really cool insights into your operations that you've only wished you could get before.
Out-of-the-Box Reports
For example, right here I'm pulling up all of the out-of-the-box reports Luminous offers: everything from a detailed sales order report to a wholesale invoicing breakdown, a top SKUs report, a B2B portal report, an invoice audit log, even a margin report. We can do some pretty cool things.
“Hell yes.”
When you see us pull these reports together, you'll be thinking we're wizards or witches in the background.
“We kind of are. Wingardium leviosa.” “Leviosa.”
The Report Builder
What I've pulled up right now is the back end of our reporting. As you can see, we can do things like add different tables. I can add filters really easily. I can make a regular table versus a pivot table. I can have line charts, and multiple types of charts and visuals.
Here on the side, we have our data sets. As you can see, it's really easy for me to drag and drop columns, drag and drop data into specific filters, and apply different visuals to the data being displayed. As long as we have it in our database, we can generally display your data to you in a compelling way. We can also do basic things like formulas, and apply basic business intelligence on top of that.
Fringe Reports You Might Not Know About
I'm going to list a couple of fringe reports you might not know Luminous can do.
For example, we have customers who use our production yield summary. We're able to track the difference between predicted and consumed raw ingredients in a manufacturing process.
Another one is a basic commissions report for wholesale sales reps.
Something else you might not know about is that Luminous can do a pretty cool orders dashboard, where we can give you a visual breakdown of where most of your customers are concentrated.
Forecasting Columns
Another common example is our forecasting, which contains columns like 60-day sales, 30-day sales, seven-day sales and 30-day sales velocity. All of this is to give you days on hand and a quantity to purchase. We can do that.
Overall, the use cases for our reports and analytics are practically endless. As long as we have the data, we can generally display it to you in a compelling way. Thanks, guys.