Income
Money the shop earned that wasn't a sale, spread across the days you said it covers.
What it means
Income is the amount of Other Income that falls inside the selected date range, one row per sub-category on the Other Incomes table. The four sub-categories are fixed — FX gains, Grants or Rebates, Interest income, and Other — and all four always appear, at zero until something is entered. Every euro here was typed in on Cost Settings; nothing arrives from a connected account.
Show the math
Formula and a worked example
Income = the entry's daily amount × the days of that entry falling inside your date range. Each entry you save gets a daily amount: a one-off is its amount divided by the days it covers, and a monthly recurring one is divided by 30.4375 — the average length of a month.
Worked example. A €12,000 grant covering 1 January to 30 June spans 181 days, so €66.30 a day. Ask for March and you get 31 of those days: 31 × 66.30 = €2,055. Ask for the whole year and you still get €12,000, because the entry stops at the end of June.
Nothing is prorated by sales. A grant paid as one lump in January is spread evenly across every day you told it to cover, which is why it turns up in a March that had nothing to do with it.
It answers the question
What did the shop earn this period that wasn't a sale? Interest, rebates, grants and currency gains all move profit and none of them show up anywhere in your revenue.
Why it matters
It's the one positive line in the P&L that isn't revenue. Other Income is its own category on Profit & Loss and lands in EBT alongside EBITDA, investments and other expenses. Leave the table empty and your P&L is short by exactly the amount nobody entered — the same silent failure as Custom ExpensesCustom ExpensesSee the full entry., running in the opposite direction.
The sub-category split matters as much as the total. A month whose profit improved on the back of FX gains or a one-off grant traded no better than the month before it, and both of those rows tell you so at a glance.
What good looks like
There's no figure to hit — this is whatever genuinely happened, in euros. Two checks are worth running each period. First, do the entry dates match the period the money actually covers, since a wrong end date leaks income into months that shouldn't have it. Second, how much of the total sits in FX gains and Grants or Rebates: those are the rows least likely to repeat, so a profit improvement resting on them isn't a trend.
How to improve it
| Lever | What you do | Expect | How long | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fast Enter the income you already have | Add bank interest, supplier rebates and any grant you've received on Cost Settings | The P&L stops understating the period | 1 day | A profit line propped up by one-off grants reads as trading performance to anyone reviewing the year, including you in six months. |
| Fast Fix the dates before the amount | Set each entry's start and end to the period the money genuinely covers | Monthly profit stops jumping for no reason | 1 day | Narrowing an entry's range concentrates the same money into fewer days, so one month jumps while the months either side of it fall. |
| Slow Empty the Other row | Re-tag entries sitting in the catch-all into FX gains, Grants or Rebates, or Interest income | A table that tells you where the money came from | 2–3 weeks | Only those four sub-categories exist, so anything that doesn't fit stays in Other — and re-tagging changes the split in months you've already reported on. |
| Slow Chase the rebates you're owed | Check supplier agreements for volume rebates and claim the ones already earned | A real row where there was a zero | 1 quarter | Rebates usually come with volume commitments, so the money arrives after cash is locked up in stock you agreed to take. |
Every lever costs something somewhere. The last column is the one to read twice.
Read it with
The two hand-entered halves of the P&L sit on one page. Read them together or you're looking at half a picture twice.
Both pushing the same way
Both moves push the P&L the same way. Worth confirming the income repeats, because a grant and a rent cut look identical from here and only one of them comes back.
One-off money, standing costs
Profit held because something arrived that wasn't a sale. That's fine once and dangerous as a plan.
Quieter on both sides
Less coming in, less going out. Deliberate trimming and a forgotten entry produce exactly this shape.
The squeeze
The extras that were softening the month have stopped and the bills haven't. Nothing here corrects on its own.
Other Income never enters Total Sales — it sits outside your revenue entirely. So a period where the P&L improved while Total Sales stayed flat points straight at this table, and reading the sales line beside it is what stops a grant being mistaken for demand.
The two hand-entered halves of the P&L, and both are only as complete as the person entering them. An accurate expense list beside an empty income table understates your profit exactly as reliably as the reverse overstates it. Neither number can flag its own gaps, which is why they're worth auditing on the same afternoon.
Common misreads
Nothing arrives automatically. All four rows sit at zero until somebody enters an entry on Cost Settings, and an empty table is the default state rather than a finding.
Each entry is spread evenly across the days it covers, not dropped on the day it was paid. If the money genuinely belongs to one month, set the entry's start and end inside that month.
Check which row moved first. FX gains and a one-off grant lift the P&L exactly like a stronger month of selling, and neither of them will be there next quarter.
Also called
Other income · non-operating income · miscellaneous income
See yoursYour Other Incomes table for the period, split into FX gains, Grants or Rebates, Interest income and Other.
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