PawnCounter for Bravo shops

What PawnCounter adds

Bravo is a full pawn point-of-sale system with 36-plus reports, an Ad Hoc report builder on its Inventory and Loans/Buys screens, and its own valuation tool, the Bravo Estimator. Bravo’s own pages say your data is yours and that it exports in ten file formats, including CSV.

PawnCounter reads the reports Bravo already saves. Nothing is installed and nothing touches Bravo: you save two reports as CSV and upload them. What you get that Bravo does not put on one screen: which items are priced above what they sell for, how much cash is tied up in aged stock, and margin by category and by the associate who wrote the ticket, all from your own sales.

• A markdown list: items priced above what the same thing actually sold for in your shop, with a price that sold.
• A sell-off list: aged stock ranked by the cash it has tied up.
• Margin, sell-through and days to sale by category, brand and the buyer who wrote the ticket.
• Redemption and forfeiture by category, where your files carry loans.

How PawnCounter and the Bravo Estimator compare

What to send

• Sales: the Sold Inventory report (under Sales Reports) for the last 12 months, saved as CSV or Excel. A Sales Deep Dive from Bravo Reporting Pro works too.
• Floor: an Inventory Ad Hoc report with Inventory Number, Description, Brand, Model, Category, Cost, Price, Date to Inventory and Inventory Status in the column chooser, exported with Print List.
• Loans: a Loans/Buys Ad Hoc report with Ticket Number, Ticket Kind, Disposition, Create Date, Disposition Date and Loan Amount, or the Loan Disposition report, saved as CSV or Excel.

How to find it

Reports: from the Dashboard open Reports, pick the report, set the dates and click Preview. On the Report Preview screen the Export Document icon lists the file types; choose CSV. Bravo’s help describes this same screen for Sold Inventory, Loan Disposition and the police FILE export.

Ad Hoc: on the Inventory or Loans/Buys screen choose Ad Hoc Reporting from the section’s menu, right-click a column heading to open the Column Chooser, and use Print List to export. Bravo shows 250 rows at a time, so click Show More until every row is on screen before you export: only what is showing gets saved.

Save as CSV or as an Excel workbook (.xlsx); PawnCounter reads the first sheet of a workbook. It matches Bravo’s column headings by name, so any column order works, and the report says which rows it could not use and why.

This reader is built from Bravo’s own help articles; we have not yet had a real Bravo export in hand. If yours does not read, send it to us and we fix the reader within days, free.

Items on a live loan show in Inventory with the status Loan. PawnCounter leaves those out of the floor count and reads them from the loan report instead, so nothing is counted twice. Redeemed and written-off items are left out too, and the report says how many.

Files and privacy

We accept .csv, .xlsx, .xml, .dbf or .txt, up to 50 MB per file.

Your files may include customer names, ID numbers, dates of birth, addresses and phone numbers. Those fields are hashed before any analysis — we analyze items and dollars, never people. See the Privacy Policy.

PawnCounter only reads a copy of an export. It does not change anything in Bravo and does not file police reports for you.

Need a hand?

Not sure which file is which? Email support@pawncounter.com — we'll find it with you.

A small Export Helper that finds these files on your PC for you is coming soon.

Sources

1. Bravo Store Systems, "Point of sale for pawnbrokers" (data ownership, export formats)
2. Bravo Store Systems, "Reporting"