What the Reports page totals

The Reports page is four totals, one narrative and one download. Each total comes from its own query, and none of them is combined with any other. This page says what each one counts, and where the page is less careful than the rest of the product.

What the four cards count

What each Reports card counts

Card	Counted from	Scope
Purchase spend	Every purchase record your organization holds	Grouped by currency, never converted
Market signals	Comparable market observation groups	Your organization's country only
Average review	Every imported review rating	One mean across all sources
Open actions	Action records not marked completed	Your organization only

Purchase spend is the only figure that keeps currencies apart on the face of the card. Each currency is totalled separately and the totals are printed side by side. Rows imported without a currency are not dropped; they are gathered into a bucket of their own and labelled as unspecified, so a total you cannot name a currency for is still visible rather than silently folded into one you can.

There is no window and no date

The dashboard carries a separate freshness date for each half of what it shows. Reports carries none at all. Purchase spend counts every row ever accepted, with no start and no end, so it is not the same quantity as the dashboard's weekly figure and the two are expected to disagree.

Dates printed on the page

None

no measurement date, no window, no last import

Purchase spend window

All records

every accepted row, oldest to newest

Decimal places

2

no thousands separator and no currency symbol

Market signals shown

1

only the highest priority group is narrated

The average review crosses a line the rest of the product holds

The priority narrative

Below the cards, the page prints the single highest-priority market signal and the explanation lines built with it. The inputs are the same ones behind the dashboard watchlist, so the reasoning is set out in reading the dashboard rather than repeated here.

Observations read

2,000

most recent first, restricted to your country

Purchases read for spend weighting

10,000

most recent first

Observations needed for a signal

2

in one strict comparison group

The purchasing download

Columns in the purchasing CSV export

Column	Taken from
Supplier	The normalised supplier the row was matched to
Item	The item name as imported, not the reduced form
Purchase date	The purchase date, as a plain calendar date
Quantity	The quantity, where one was imported
Unit	The unit as imported
Unit price	The unit price, where one was imported
Total price	The total price, which is always present
Currency	The currency as imported

The export has no date filter and no page size. It is every purchase row your organization holds, oldest first. Any cell beginning with an equals, plus, minus or at sign is prefixed with an apostrophe, so a spreadsheet treats it as text rather than running it as a formula.

Because one request can carry a complete book of supplier prices, the download is limited twice: a burst limit by address, and a durable quota counted per organization that survives a restart.

Downloads per hour

20

per organization, counted in the database

Requests per minute

60

per address, held in memory only

What the page will not tell you

For what a single market signal means, see reading the analytics evidence table. For the boundary between market observations and your own prices, see market data against your own costs.