Reporting and AnalyticsPurpose
1.2. Reduce manual reporting, ensure accuracy in receivables tracking, satisfy audit requirements, facilitate data-driven decision making, and distribute reports to stakeholders via multiple channels.
1.3. Provide ongoing, up-to-date insights on arrears, aging schedules, customer payment behaviors, and service profitability to management.
Trigger Conditions
2.2. New payment posted or payment overdue beyond specified threshold.
2.3. Request from management via email or dashboard.
2.4. API call or webhook fired upon financial system update.
Platform Variants
3.1. QuickBooks Online
• Feature/Setting: Reports API (GET /reports/ProfitAndLoss) — configure OAuth2, specify date range, and schedule calls for summary export.
3.2. Xero
• Feature/Setting: Accounting API – GET /Reports/ReceivableInvoiceSummary — obtain outstanding dues; automate via OAuth2, parameterize date filters.
3.3. Zoho Books
• Feature/Setting: API endpoint /customerinvoices — retrieve customer dues; set up periodic API requests.
3.4. FreshBooks
• Feature/Setting: GET /invoices and GET /payments — compile outgoing and received data, filter unpaid invoices.
3.5. SAP Business One
• Feature/Setting: Service Layer API GET /Invoices, GET /AgingReports — configure endpoint, schedule batch export jobs.
3.6. Oracle NetSuite
• Feature/Setting: SuiteTalk SOAP/REST Web Services — run saved searches for overdue AR and financial summary.
3.7. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Feature/Setting: API endpoint v2.0/companies/{id}/customers — extract balances; schedule query jobs.
3.8. Salesforce
• Feature/Setting: Reports API — configure custom report for finance, automate export with scheduled actions.
3.9. Airtable
• Feature/Setting: List records endpoint — maintain invoice base, filter unpaid, aggregate.
3.10. Google Sheets
• Feature/Setting: Apps Script trigger + Sheets API — automate formula recalculation, periodic export/mail.
3.11. Smartsheet
• Feature/Setting: GET /sheets/{id} — store and tally transactional data, use Data Shuttle for automation.
3.12. Stripe
• Feature/Setting: /v1/invoices and /v1/charges endpoints — enumerate unpaid items, generate AR summary.
3.13. PayPal
• Feature/Setting: Invoicing API GET /v2/invoicing/invoices — identify outstanding invoices, summarize.
3.14. Wave
• Feature/Setting: GET /invoices, GET /payments — cross-reference to flag unpaid debts, roll up summary.
3.15. Square
• Feature/Setting: ListInvoices API — check status, automate report on overdue.
3.16. Sage Intacct
• Feature/Setting: XML API or RESTful endpoint — run AR reports, schedule automated pull.
3.17. Power BI
• Feature/Setting: Data Connector for ERP — pull, transform, and visualize financial summary on schedule.
3.18. Tableau
• Feature/Setting: Data extract refresh API — connect to financial system, auto-refresh dashboards.
3.19. Mailgun
• Feature/Setting: POST /messages API — send compiled PDF summary to stakeholders automatically.
3.20. Slack
• Feature/Setting: chat.postMessage API — push summary digest to finance channel at scheduled times.
3.21. SFTP/FTPS Servers
• Feature/Setting: Automated file upload — send encrypted report files to secure locations at defined intervals.
3.22. DocuSign
• Feature/Setting: Embedded sending API — transmit and archive financial statements for signature.
Benefits
4.2. Error reduction in complex financial calculations and outstanding tracking.
4.3. Rapid, multi-format distribution of reports (PDF, CSV, dashboard, message).
4.4. Improved compliance, audit readiness, and management oversight.
4.5. Supports scaling as transaction volume increases across locations.