Financial reports

In this screen you can create a new financial report relating to your business, or maintain the details of an existing report.  

You can choose from various message (or report) types. The available message types are:

• BatchReport - reports on a specific batch account

• CaptureReport - reports on capture batches for specific acquirers; this report is only available when merchants have their own contract with the acquirer

• EventReport - daily reporting on changes to events

• OrderReport - daily reporting on changes to orders

• TransferReport - shows the breakdown of the settlement or transfer batch. It contains information on the payments included in the remittance to the merchant. Note that for M-level merchants the transfer report is mandatory.

Creating a new report

To create a new report:

1.       Select Profile > Financial Reports from the left-hand menu.

2.       Select either Production or Test from the drop-down list

3.       Select the Message type from the drop-down list - Batch, Capture, Event, Order or Transfer

4.       For the Batch report only, select the Account type from the drop-down list. These are:

• IN_PROCESS_CAPTURED

• IN_PROCESS_AUTHORISED

• PAYOUT

5.       For the Capture report only, specify these additional settings:

• Acquirer - choose an acquirer from the drop-down list

• Account - choose an account from the drop-down list

6.       Specify a Protocol - email, http or SFTP

7.       Select a Stylesheet - for example, XML, HTML or zipped

8.       Enter an Address - an email address or http connection where the report is to be sent

9.       Specify whether or not this report is to be made active - Yes or No

10.   Click the Insert button to save the new report.

Maintaining an existing report

You can amend some settings of an existing report. To do this:

1.       Select Profile > Financial Reports from the left-hand menu.

2.       For the relevant report, amend one or more of these details:

• Stylesheet - for example, XML, HTML or zipped

• Address - an email address or http connection where the report is to be sent

• Specify whether or not this report is to be made active - Yes or No  

3.       Click the Save button to save the amended report.