Your sales dashboard is intended to give a live estimate of sales. For definitive sales data, please refer to your monthly reports that can be found in the Payment Information section of your account.
Your dashboard is broken into two sections, Book Sales and Kobo Plus.
Book Sales
<The Kobo Writing Life dashboard showing an overview of book sales for today, this week, this month and last month. A second graph shows sales by units each month for eBooks, audiobooks, free titles and preorders.>
Overview
Estimated earnings shown here are from the last two months. Any earnings from subscriptions are not shown here.
<The Kobo Writing Life dashboard showing an overview of book sales for today, this week, this month and last month>
| Today | Shows sales made today and compares to sales made yesterday |
| This Week | Shows sales made this week, Monday - Sunday, and compares to the same period in the previous week |
| This Month | Shows sales made this calendar month and compares to sales made in the previous calendar month |
| Last Month | Shows sales made in the previous calendar month and compares to the calendar month immediately before |
Search Filters
You can filter to narrow down your sales data. You can filter by the following options:
<Drop down menus which allow the user the option to filter by dates, authors, books and regions. >
| Date |
You can select custom date filters or use our default filters: Today, Yesterday, Last 7 days, Last 30 days, Last 3 months, Last 6 months You can select up to 2 years worth of sales data at a time |
| Authors | This defaults to include all authors but you can filter to select one or multiple |
| Books | This defaults to include all books but you can filter to select one or multiple |
| Regions | This defaults to include all regions but you can filter to select one or multiple |
Sales Trends
You can also filter the chart by Sales Value and Increments:
<A drop down menu showing options to filter data by estimated revenue or units. >
| Sales Value | Choose from estimated revenue and units |
| Increments | Choose from daily, weekly, monthly |
Map View
You can see where your sales are coming from by selecting Show Map View. You can hover over the dots to see a breakdown of sales by country.
<A world map in the Kobo Writing Life dashboard, spotlighting the United Kingdom and the eBooks, audiobooks, free titles and preorders in that region.>
Totals
You can see the totals broken down by type of sale:
<A counter of totals broken down by sale type including eBooks, audiobooks, free titles and preorders.>
| Estimated eBooks Total | Estimated eBooks total by filtered option |
| Estimated Audiobooks Total | Estimated audiobooks total by filtered option This does not include books redeemed by subscription tokens |
| Total Free Titles | Total free titles downloaded, both eBooks and audiobooks |
| Total Pre-Orders | This number reflects all unpaid pre-orders of both eBooks and audiobooks, and stops updating once a book is released. |
Book Titles
Your selected filters will also provide a list of book titles, including both eBooks and Audio:
<A list of books on the Kobo Writing Life dashboard. Each title has an estimated earning total and units sold total. >
Filter
You can filter the search results by the following:
<A drop down menu showing the option to sort by top-selling Books, Book Title A-Z or Book Title Z-A. >
| Top Selling Books | Lists your books by highest units in the selected time period |
| Book Title A-Z | Lists your books alphabetically, from a-z, in the selected time period |
| Book Title Z-A | Lists your books reverse alphabetically, from z-a, in the selected time period |
Download CSV
You can download a CSV file of the results in the Book Titles section.
Kobo Plus
<The Kobo Writing Life dashboard showing an overview of Kobo Plus sales per month. A second graph shows estimated revenue each month for eBooks, and audiobooks in Kobo Plus.>
Overview
Estimated earnings shown here are from the last three months and year to date. Kobo Plus stats are updated on a monthly basis.
<A counter of monthly totals for Kobo Plus and Year to Date. >
| Month, Year | Shows sales made each month and compares to sales made in the previous monthly period |
| Year to Date | Shows sales made this year to the latest month of Kobo Plus data |
Search Filters
You can filter to narrow down your sales data. You can filter by the following options:
<Drop down menus showing the option to filter by date, author, book and region. >
| Date |
You can select custom date filters or use our default filters You can select up to 2 years worth of sales data at a time Please note: Kobo Plus data is only available in monthly increments |
| Authors | This defaults to include all authors but you can filter to select one or multiple |
| Books | This defaults to include all books but you can filter to select one or multiple |
| Regions | This defaults to include all regions but you can filter to select one or multiple |
Sales Trends
You can also filter the chart by Sales Value:
<Drop down menus showing the option to filter by estimated revenue or by minutes.>
| Sales Value | Choose from estimated revenue and minutes |
Map View
You can see where your sales are coming from by selecting Show Map View. You can hover over the dots to see a breakdown of minutes by country.
<A map of the world. A menu highlights the Netherlands to show eBook and audiobook minutes read in that region. >
Totals
You can see the totals broken down by format:
<A counter showing total eBook minutes consumed and total audiobook minutes consumed. >
| Estimated eBook Total | Estimated eBooks total by filtered option |
| Estimated Audiobook Total | Estimated audiobook total by filtered option |
| eBook Minutes Consumed |
Total eBook minutes consumed during filtered period Please note: Minutes are reported in 300 minute increments |
| Audiobook Minutes Consumed |
Total audiobook minutes consumed during filtered period Please note: minutes are reported in 300 minute increments |
Book Titles
Your selected filters will also provide a list of book titles, including both eBooks and Audio:
<A drop down menu showing the option to filter by top-selling books, Book Title A-Z, Book Title Z-A>
| Top Books | Lists your books by highest minutes in the selected time period |
| Book Title A-Z | Lists your books alphabetically, from a-z, in the selected time period |
| Book Title Z-A | Lists your books reverse alphabetically, from z-a, in the selected time period |
Download CSV
You can download a CSV file of the results in the Book Titles section.
If you have any feedback about the Kobo Writing Life dashboard, you can let our team know.
**The sales dashboard does not include promotional discounts or promo codes, refunds, library sales made via OverDrive or audiobook credit redemptions. Kobo Plus data is added on a monthly basis**