Notes
Notes on numbers.
Short write-ups of what goes wrong in reports and exports, and how it gets caught.
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Where €285,611 went between sales and payouts
A shop sold EUR 529,976 in March; Shopify Payments shows EUR 244,365 net. A table from one number to the other, and what stays open.
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The stale-price flag misses five
A price vendor flags 40 positions as stale. The prices themselves show 42 that did not move. Why a document should print both counts.
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One reasonable line of code, eight wrong figures
An AI assistant wrote a tidy sales report from a Shopify export. A recount found why eight of its figures were off, and why re-reading the report would not have.