Hour × day grid
24 hours across, the seven days of the week down. The lunch crowd, the dinner rush and the dead hours are read off one picture.
See load in one picture, broken down by day and hour: 24 hours × 7 days, 168 cells. The colour is always relative to the busiest cell in the grid — the picture answers "when", and the figure goes to Excel.
Whichever branches you tick in the scope selector, the grid is redrawn for them. The branch in the office district leans on lunch, the one in the bar street on midnight — and the average of the two describes neither. That is why the comparison is made side by side rather than overlaid.
The default scope: the sum of the branches you selected.
Office district: the day is made at lunch, the weekend is nearly empty.
Quiet at noon, opens late, and runs past midnight at the weekend.
The colour is not an absolute amount: each cell is its ratio to the busiest cell in that grid. So the three pictures are not read on one scale — each is read against its own peak.
24 hours across, the seven days of the week down. Each cell is the amount that fell in that slot, and its colour is taken from the busiest cell in the grid. The emptiness before eight in the morning is information too: you never have to explain the hours you are closed.
Like every other widget, the heatmap reduces to a table on one press — and on the way it opens out into day rows by 24 hour columns. Colour is for comparing, the figure is for the report you are writing; asking one screen for both makes it bad at each.
The grid knows four things: its axes, its scope, its scale and how it leaves. All four are properties of one widget — not things bought separately.
The same drawing, as the answer to four different questions.
24 hours across, the seven days of the week down. The lunch crowd, the dinner rush and the dead hours are read off one picture.
Change the scope and the same grid is redrawn for those branches. An office branch and a bar do not have the same week.
Colour shows the ratio to the busiest cell in the grid, not an absolute amount; the older grid splits that ratio into five bands.
On export the grid becomes day rows × 24 hour columns. The picture says when, the sheet says how much.
In the first full week after setup we look at your grid together and talk through your shifts and promotion hours around it. The average business goes live in 14 days.