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Same-Store Growth Calculator

Total growth can hide a weak factor. Decompose your year-over-year revenue into customer count, visit frequency, and average ticket — and see exactly which one is driving or dragging the store.

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This Year vs Last Year

Same-Store Growth

Healthy same-store growth. Same-store sales up 16.1% year over year. Growth is compounding across customers, frequency, and ticket.
Revenue last year$152,000
Revenue this year$176,400
Total growth16.1%

Growth Decomposition

From customer count5.0%
From visit frequency5.3%
From avg ticket5.8%

Each factor's share of the total growth. If one is negative, it is dragging the others — that is where to act.

* Same-store growth = (C×F×T this ÷ C×F×T last) − 1. Educational reference, not advice.

How It Works

What This Calculator Tells You

Total Growth

Same-store sales change year over year.

Factor Decomposition

How much each of the three drivers contributed.

Find the Weak Link

A negative factor is cancelling the others.

Actionable

Push frequency and ticket before acquisition.

Sources

Authoritative References

  • Comparable-store sales and revenue decomposition frameworks (retrieved 2026-08-13), consistent with our retention and frequency ranges by business type.
  • U.S. SBA — Assess Your Business.

Estimates only. From your inputs; not financial advice.

FAQ

Same-Store Growth FAQs

The year-over-year change in revenue from stores open in both periods — excluding new locations. It isolates whether your existing store is actually growing. Revenue = customers × frequency × ticket.

Total growth can hide a problem: traffic up but ticket down means you are discounting to fill the room. Decomposition shows which of the three factors is driving or dragging the number.

Frequency and ticket usually beat chasing new customers — a regular visiting more often or spending more is cheaper than acquisition. The decomposition tells you which is weak.

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