The Profit & Loss is Rundoo's running income statement — income, COGS, gross profit, expenses, and net profit for a date range you pick.
In the Admin > Reporting > Profit & loss tab, set a date range, click Run, and Rundoo pulls every journal entry for the range and rolls it up into the six account types from your Chart of Accounts.
The P&L doesn't render on page load — the date range isn't set yet. Open the Date pill on the filter bar, pick a range (calendar or preset), optionally narrow to a single Location, then click Run.
Location defaults to All locations. Switch it to a single store and the report recalculates to just that location's postings — useful for comparing stores or isolating a new-store ramp.
Click Run and the report pulls every journal entry that posted in the range and groups it by account.
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If you click Run without picking a date, Rundoo shows a red banner "Date range cannot be empty. Please select a date." at the bottom of the page. The report won't render until a range is set.
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The P&L is grouped into three sections — Income, COGS, and Expense — with two calculated totals in between: Gross profit and Net profit. Each account appears as a row with its account number on the left, account name in the middle, and the period total on the right.
Income is the top section. Every Income-typed account in your Chart of Accounts that posted in the range shows up here — Sales, CardSurcharge (credit-card surcharges billed back to customers), Discount, Additional fee sales, Gift card revenue, Forfeited deposits. The section total appears as Total Income at the bottom.
COGS is next — every COGS-typed account. Rundoo ships with a single COGS account that catches inventory costs on sale, plus accounts for freight and inventory adjustments. The section total is Total COGS.
Gross profit is the line between COGS and Expense. It's Total Income − Total COGS, and Rundoo shows the gross-margin percentage right next to the dollar amount. If gross profit is negative, Rundoo renders the value in parentheses and the margin flips negative — immediate signal that inventory adjustments or freight are eating the margin.
Expense is the bottom section — every Expense-typed account. Things like CardFees (card processing), Wages, Petty cash, OverShort (cash-drawer variance), WriteOffs. The section total is Total Expense.
Net profit is the bottom line — Gross profit − Total Expense — with its own margin percentage.
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Rundoo labels the bottom line Net profit, not "Net income." If you're used to reading QuickBooks or Xero, it's the same number — just a different name on the row.
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Click the small caret (^) next to Income, COGS, or Expense to collapse the section and see just the subtotal — helpful when you want to eyeball the gross and net on a big P&L without scrolling.
See the Chart of Accounts Rundoc for how each account type is defined and what transactions post to it.