Financial reporting and daily sales summary automation

Purpose

1.1 Generate timely, consistent financial and sales summary reports drawing data from payment, ticketing, and sales systems.
1.2 Automate daily compilation, calculation, and delivery of sales figures, taxes, revenue streams, reconciliations, and payment statuses across all aerial sports activities.
1.3 Ensure reliable and transparent reporting for managers, finance, and regulatory bodies without manual intervention.
1.4 Enable rapid, data-driven decision-making, improve financial oversight, reduce errors, and meet compliance requirements.

Trigger Conditions

2.1 End-of-business day closure in POS/ticketing system.
2.2 Receipt of batch settlement notification from payment gateway.
2.3 Specific time-based triggers (e.g., scheduled for 23:45 daily).
2.4 Manual override trigger by authorized personnel for ad-hoc reports.

Platform Variants

3.1 Stripe
• Function: "List Charges" API — collect daily payment transactions.
• Configuration: Schedule GET /v1/charges with filter by date and status.

3.2 Square
• Function: "List Payments" endpoint — extract completed transactions.
• Configuration: Schedule endpoint call with location_id and date.

3.3 PayPal
• Function: Payouts API "GET /v1/payments/payouts" — summarize daily completions.
• Configuration: Poll daily, aggregate payout results for reporting.

3.4 Xero
• Function: "Reports API" — generate and export sales summaries.
• Configuration: Schedule GET request for "Profit and Loss Report" by date.

3.5 QuickBooks Online
• Function: "Reports API" — pull latest sales and payments reports.
• Configuration: Auto-export "Sales by Product/Service Summary".

3.6 Zoho Books
• Function: "Get Sales Orders" — collect and sum order data.
• Configuration: Scheduled fetch using filter by approval status and date.

3.7 Wave
• Function: "Transactions GET" — retrieve and group sales transactions.
• Configuration: Poll endpoint and filter transactions with "SALE" type.

3.8 Shopify
• Function: "Order API" — export all completed online bookings.
• Configuration: Schedule GET orders with 'financial_status=paid'.

3.9 Lightspeed
• Function: "GET Sales" — retrieve end-of-day sales tallies.
• Configuration: Scheduled call with preset location and timeframe.

3.10 Mindbody
• Function: "Sales Service" API — retrieve payments and sales for sessions.
• Configuration: Schedule polling for daily sessions and settled sales.

3.11 Oracle NetSuite
• Function: "Saved Search" API — define and export custom sales report.
• Configuration: Trigger RESTlet to run saved search at close of business.

3.12 SAP Business One
• Function: "Service Layer" — extract latest sales invoices and payment postings.
• Configuration: Query SalesInvoice endpoint post-business day.

3.13 FreshBooks
• Function: "List Payments" — daily extraction of completed receipts.
• Configuration: Timed API call with date range filter.

3.14 Odoo
• Function: "Reports" Module — generate daily sales summaries PDF/CSV.
• Configuration: Automate report generation via scheduled action.

3.15 Salesforce
• Function: "Reports API" — fetch opportunity and closed deal summaries.
• Configuration: Triggered export of "Closed/Won Revenue" report.

3.16 Airtable
• Function: Custom "Views" + "API" — retrieve filtered sales/payment views.
• Configuration: Poll view with today’s filter and aggregate results.

3.17 Google Sheets
• Function: "Append Row"/"Read Sheet" — push daily summary to sheet.
• Configuration: At report generation, batch insert sales rows with timestamp.

3.18 Microsoft Excel Online
• Function: "Excel REST API" — insert daily sales data to shared worksheet.
• Configuration: Scheduled API push to predefined range.

3.19 Slack
• Function: "Chat.PostMessage" API — send automated summary to finance channel.
• Configuration: Compose and deliver formatted sales snapshot daily.

3.20 Gmail
• Function: "Send Mail" API — deliver PDF or HTML report to specified recipients.
• Configuration: On report complete, trigger email with attachment.

3.21 Outlook
• Function: "Send Mail" endpoint — distribute daily reports internally.
• Configuration: Scheduled trigger with dynamically generated attachments.

3.22 HubSpot
• Function: "Email API" — send sales reporting updates to contacts or team lists.
• Configuration: Trigger email with report analytics and key metrics.

3.23 Trello
• Function: "Create Card" API — post key financial events to team board.
• Configuration: Automated report posts as end-of-day checklist item.

3.24 Asana
• Function: "Create Task"/"Comment" API — notify finance team of sales summary.
• Configuration: Scheduled task with daily sales result attachment.

Benefits

4.1 Eliminates manual collation, saving staff hours daily.
4.2 Dramatically reduces reporting errors and omissions.
4.3 Centralizes sales/payment data from multiple channels for unified visibility.
4.4 Provides real-time or scheduled financial insights for management.
4.5 Accelerates audit, compliance, and tax reporting processes.
4.6 Enhances transparency for all stakeholders with automated, consistent updates.
4.7 Quickly adapts to business scale or new activity streams.
4.8 Enables proactive financial controls and rapid response to anomalies.