{"id":4961,"date":"2026-08-22T18:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T18:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onsightapp.com\/user-guide\/?p=4961"},"modified":"2026-08-22T18:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T18:49:08","slug":"how-do-i-view-a-report-that-compares-sales-across-multiple-product-categories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onsightapp.com\/user-guide\/how-do-i-view-a-report-that-compares-sales-across-multiple-product-categories\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I view a report that compares sales across multiple product categories?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can compare the sales performance over time for several product categories at once, shown together on the same charts.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Log in to the Onsight web console at <a href=\"https:\/\/sales.onsightapp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/sales.onsightapp.com\/<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Click on &#8216;Reports&#8217; from the left-hand side menu.<\/li>\n<li>Click on &#8216;Products&#8217; and then &#8216;Categories&#8217; from the left-hand side menu.<\/li>\n<li>All of your product categories will be listed in your product category hierarchy.<\/li>\n<li>Tick the checkbox next to each category you want to compare. You can select up to 6 categories at a time.<\/li>\n<li>Once you have ticked at least one category, a &#8216;Compare&#8217; button will appear at the top of the screen.<\/li>\n<li>Click on &#8216;Compare&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>You will be presented with the sales performance over time for all of the categories you selected, shown together on the same charts. Each category appears as a different colour, with a legend below the chart so you can tell them apart.<\/li>\n<li>You can add or remove categories from the comparison at any time using the &#8216;Product categories&#8217; drop-down at the top of the screen.<\/li>\n<li>Click on the drop-down at the top of the screen to choose the time period for the charts. The options are: &#8220;All time&#8221;, &#8220;Last year&#8221;, &#8220;Past 12 months&#8221;, &#8220;This year&#8221;, &#8220;Last month&#8221;, &#8220;Past 30 days&#8221;, &#8220;This month&#8221;, &#8220;Last week&#8221;, &#8220;This week&#8221;, &#8220;Yesterday&#8221;, &#8220;Today&#8221;. You can also choose a custom date range.<\/li>\n<li>You can also drill down further by selecting a specific sales rep or a specific customer from the drop-downs at the top of the screen.<\/li>\n<li>You can choose whether to see orders, quotes, or both from the &#8216;Data to show&#8217; drop-down.<\/li>\n<li>You can click on the browser back button to go back to the original list of categories.<\/li>\n<li>Click on the \u2018Download XLS\u2019 icon at the top of a chart to download that chart&#8217;s data to an Excel file.<\/li>\n<li>Click on the \u2018Download CSV\u2019 icon at the top of a chart to download that chart&#8217;s data to a CSV file.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can compare the sales performance over time for several product categories at once, shown together on the same charts. Log in to the Onsight web console at https:\/\/sales.onsightapp.com\/. Click on &#8216;Reports&#8217; from the left-hand side menu. Click on &#8216;Products&#8217;<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onsightapp.com\/user-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onsightapp.com\/user-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onsightapp.com\/user-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onsightapp.com\/user-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onsightapp.com\/user-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onsightapp.com\/user-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4962,"href":"https:\/\/www.onsightapp.com\/user-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4961\/revisions\/4962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onsightapp.com\/user-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onsightapp.com\/user-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onsightapp.com\/user-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}