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How To Read Data Export Files

In this article, you’ll learn how to understand and work with your Data Export files.

We’ll walk you through which columns to select when creating an export — and how to interpret the data in each column once you’ve downloaded your file.

Kanpla’s Default Columns Dictionary

Below you’ll find an overview of the most common columns included in a Sales Data Export and what each one means.

Order ID

The ID belonging to a certain order

Billing Date

The date on which an order was last changed.

Created Date

The date on which an order was created

Order Date

The date for which an order was placed – on which the order was delivered to the customer

Order or Refund

The value "Order" means this row represents an order that has been placed.
The value "Refund" means that this row represents a refunded order.

Line Type

The value "product" shows this row represents an ordered product.

The value "discount" shows this row represents the billable discount. This row will not have a product amount or a product name, but shows the amount to be billed to the company in a Hybrid Billing setup.

To create the:

Product category

This is the category that the product is placed in in the product settings in admin.kanpla. For example: Spaghetti Bolognese is in product category "Dish of the Day."

Billable discount

This column shows the

Text inputs - all

Text inputs are the custom fields that might have been added to a (hospitality) module, "Reference numbers" or "Comments" for example. When selecting Text inputs - all, all custom fields will be shown in separate columns.

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