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Exporting financials

Pull a CSV or data file of invoices, payments, and refunds for accounting or audit.

Overview

Year-end and audit periods need full financial exports. The platform provides date-ranged exports of every billing artifact: invoices, payments, refunds, credits, write-offs.

Prerequisites

  • Owner, Admin, or Billing Staff role
  • custom_reports feature flag (Professional+) — Starter exports are limited to per-patient
  • A target — accountant, auditor, internal records

Steps

Open Financial Reports. Top nav Reports → Financial.

Set the date range. Default: this year. Adjust as needed.

Pick the location filter. Multi-location: choose all or one location.

Pick what to export. Tabs: Invoices, Payments, Refunds, Credits, Write-offs. Each can be exported separately, or use Export all for a bundled archive.

Choose the format. CSV (Excel-friendly), data file (machine-readable), XLSX (single multi-sheet workbook with one sheet per tab).

Pick column set. Default columns include the essentials — IDs, dates, amounts, methods, references. Toggle on extra columns for accountant-specific needs (chart-of-accounts mapping, location, dentist).

Add the audit reason. Required field — "Year-end accountancy", "Quarterly audit", "Tax filing 2026". Logged.

Click "Generate". Small exports download immediately; large exports email a download link when ready.

Verify totals match dashboard. Cross-check the sum in the export against the dashboard's revenue card for the same period. Discrepancies indicate a data issue.

Expected outcome

  • A file in the chosen format with all selected billing data
  • An audit log entry recording the export reason and size
  • Totals reconcile between dashboard and export

Troubleshooting

SymptomLikely causeFix
Export blockedcustom_reports flag offUpgrade to Professional+
Email never arrivesSpam filterClick Resend on the report job
CSV opens with broken charactersExcel encodingUse Data → From Text/CSV with UTF-8
Totals don't matchRefunds counted twiceRefunds appear once in the Refunds tab; net revenue is invoice total minus refunds
Need bespoke columnsUse data file export to script your own transformationAPI access also available on Enterprise tier

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