I love Phorest, but reporting continues to be one of the areas I find most frustrating.

The Financial Totals report is a great example of what works well. It is clear, simple, and gives me the important numbers right on the screen. I would love to see more reports designed that way.

With many other reports, I have to download a CSV, Excel file, PDF, or another file just to get the information into a format I can actually use. Some reports include far more information than I need, while customized reports can be too limited—for example, not providing totals where they are needed.

It would be extremely helpful to have more options directly within each report: choose which information is displayed, sort it in different ways, see totals on screen, and create a clean printable version without having to export the report first.

I understand there may be limitations with the current reporting platform, but reporting is such an important part of managing a salon that I would love to see this area continue to evolve.