Define what you measure
The definitions to agree before anyone builds a report — what counts as an order, and how money and time are handled.
There is no configuration screen to work through here. The setup that matters is agreement: which orders count, which figure is the revenue figure, and which day an order placed at half past midnight belongs to.
Get this wrong and nothing later can rescue it. Two people will pull the same report and get different answers, the shop's numbers will disagree with the ERP, and the disagreement will be blamed on the software rather than on the two unstated definitions behind it.
Nothing to wait for here. These decisions do not depend on Analytics Studio
shipping. Make them now, on paper, and they carry over into every dashboard you
build later.
- Agree what counts as an order — status, cancellations, gross or net, and test orders.
- Currency, time zones and periods — the three quiet ways a correct query produces a wrong number.