Balance Platform Accounting Report

Get an overview of the financial activities on your platform.

You can use the information from the Accounting Report to:

Track the payment lifecycle by checking the statuses of rows with a shared Transfer Id.
Track incoming and outgoing funds to and from external bank accounts.
Create insights into your authorization rate.

You can generate the report automatically based on a schedule, or manually for a specific day in your Balance Platform Customer Area.

Transfers and Transactions

Most events on your balance platform follow the same structure. The structure contains a Transfer and Transactions.

Transfer: Events where the credit or debit is pending and no real money movement has taken place. The payment or transfer is initiated, and then authorized or refused. Linked events share the same Transfer Id. Refunds initiate a new flow where separate received, authorised, and refunded events are created with a new Transfer Id that does not link to the original payment.
Transactions: Events where the credit and debit are booked on the balance and real money movement has taken place. If there is no Transaction Id available, no money movement has taken place yet. You can link a transaction to a transfer by matching the Transfer Id. A status of cancelled has a Transaction Id even though there is no real money movement. This allows you to reconcile the cancellation with the corresponding payment.

Sample

Download a sample BalancePlatform Accounting Report for examples of the included data. Based on your platform settings, the report that you generate may contain additional data or columns that are not included in the sample report.

Report structure

The Accounting Report has standard columns that are included by default in every report, and additional columns you can add to your reports from the Customer Area.

The generated report includes the balance mutations with a Booking Date for all the accounts for your balance platform between opening (00:00 AM) and closing (00:00 AM the next day) for your selected day in Central European Time (CET).

Standard columns

The following table shows the standard columns that are included in the Accounting Report, in their default order.

Initial column position	Column name	Financial service	Data type	Description

Initial column position	Column name	Financial service	Data type	Description
1	Balance Platform	issuing payouts platform payments	Unicode Text	Name of your Balance Platform account.
2	Account Holder	issuing payouts platform payments	Unicode Text	Unique identifier of the account holder that owns the balance account.
3	Balance Account	issuing payouts platform payments	Unicode Text	The unique identifier of the balance account. Balance accounts with no transactions do not appear in the report.
4	Transfer Id	issuing payouts platform payments	Unicode text	The unique identifier of a pending debit or credit.
5	Transaction Id	issuing payouts platform payments	Unicode text	The unique identifier of a transaction, reflects a completed debit or credit.
6	Category	issuing payouts platform payments	Enum	The category of the transaction. Possible values: bank card grants internal issuedCard platformPayment topUp upgrade
7	Status	issuing payouts platform payments	Enum	The status of the event. Example values: refunded, chargeback.
8	Type	issuing payouts platform payments	Enum	The type of transfer or transaction. Example values: refund, chargeback.
9	Booking Date	issuing payouts platform payments	Date field + Time field	Date of the booking.
	Booking Date Time Zone	issuing payouts platform payments	Alpha Text (4-character limit)	The time zone of the location where the booking happened.
10	Value Date	issuing payouts platform payments	Date field + Time field	The date when the funds are available.
	Value Date Time Zone	issuing payouts platform payments	Alpha Text (4-character limit)	The time zone of the location where the funds are available.
11	Currency	issuing payouts platform payments	Alpha Text (3-character limit)	The three-character ISO currency code for the balance account.
	Amount	issuing payouts platform payments	Alpha text	The amount of the transfer or transaction.
12	Original Currency	issuing payouts	Alpha text (3-character limit)	The three-character ISO currency code of the payment amount as reported by the acquirer.
13	Original Amount	issuing payouts	Fixed point number	The payment amount in the currency defined in Original Currency.
14	Payment Currency	issuing payouts platform payments	Alpha Text (3-character limit)	The currency of the payment.
	Received (PC)	issuing payouts platform payments	Fixed point number (16-character limit)	The amount (in Payment Currency) debited or credited on the Received accounting register.
15	Reserved (PC)	issuing payouts platform payments	Fixed point number (16-character limit)	The amount (in Payment Currency) debited or credited on the Reserved accounting register.
16	Balance (PC)	issuing payouts platform payments	Fixed point number (16-character limit)	The amount (in Payment Currency) debited or credited on the Balance accounting register.
17	Reference	issuing payouts platform payments	Unicode text	The unique identifier of a pending debit or credit.
18	Description	issuing payouts platform payments	Unicode text	The unique identifier of a pending debit or credit. When the transfer is a fee, the fee type is added before the description of the original payment. Possible fee type indications: Payment Fee for Chargeback Fee for SecondChargeback Fee for ChargebackReversal Fee for If the original payment did not contain a description, possible fee type indications are: Payment Fee Chargeback Fee SecondChargeback Fee ChargebackReversal Fee
19	Counterparty Balance Account Id	issuing payouts platform payments	Unicode text	The unique identifier of the destination of the transfer.
20	Psp Payment Merchant Reference	platform payments	Unicode Text (16-character limit)	The PSP merchant reference of a payment.
21	Psp Payment Psp Reference	platform payments	Unicode Text (16-character limit)	The PSP reference of a payment.
22	Psp Modification Psp Reference	platform payments	Unicode Text (16-character limit)	The PSP modification reference of a payment.
23	Psp Modification Merchant Reference	platform payments	Unicode Text (16-character limit)	The PSP modification merchant reference of a payment.
24	Payment Instrument Type	issuing payouts	Unicode text	The type of the payment instrument used in the payment.
25	Payment Instrument Id	issuing payouts	Unicode text	The unique identifier of the payment instrument.
26	Entrymode	issuing	Unicode text	The point-of-sale entry mode as reported by the acquirer. Possible values: manual chip magstripe magstripe_fallback contactless contactless_magstripe cof token e_commerce server barcode ocr unknown
27	Auth Code	issuing	Text field numeric	A unique authorization code generated for the payment. This code should be included when canceling or refunding a payment.
28	Shopper Interaction	issuing	Alpha text (30-character limit)	Transaction type. Possible values: Ecommerce ContAuth POS Moto
29	MCC	issuing	Text field numeric	The merchant category code of the merchant that initiated the payment.
30	Counterparty Name	issuing payouts	Unicode text	The name of the merchant that initiated the payment.
31	Counterparty Address	issuing payouts	Unicode text	The address of the merchant that initiated the payment.
32	Counterparty City	issuing payouts	Unicode text	The city of the merchant that initiated the payment.
33	Counterparty Country	issuing payouts	Unicode text	The ISO country code of the merchant that initiated the payment.
34	Counterparty iban	payouts	Unicode text	The IBAN of the merchant that initiated the payment.
35	Counterparty bic	payouts	Alpha text	The BIC of the bank of the merchant that initiated the payment.
36	Counterparty Account Number	payouts	Unicode Text	The account number of the merchant that initiated the payment.
37	Counterparty Postal Code	issuing payouts	Unicode Text	The postal code of the merchant that initiated the payment.
38	Interchange Currency	issuing	Unicode Text	The currency of the interchange.
	Interchange	issuing	Unicode Text	The amount of interchange.
39	Beneficiary Balance Account	issuing payouts	Unicode Text	The unique identifier of the beneficiary balance account associated with your balance platform.
40	Brand variant	issuing payouts	Unicode text	The brand variant for the payment instrument. Examples for cards: mcdebit, visaprepaid. Example for an instant priority payout: payment_banktransfer_instantBanktransfer.
41	Reference for Beneficiary	payouts payouts	Unicode Text	Your reference for the beneficiary.
42	Platform Payment Interchange	platform payments	Fixed point number	Fee charged by the Issuing bank. If the acquirer does not provide the transaction information at the interchange level, this field is empty.
43	Platform Payment Scheme Fee	platform payments	Fixed point number	Fee which is charged by Visa or Mastercard. If the acquirer does not provide the transaction information at the interchange level, this field is empty.
44	Platform Payment Markup	platform payments	Fixed point number	Fee charged by the acquiring bank. If the acquirer does not provide the transaction information at the interchange level, this field is empty.
45	Platform Payment Commission	platform payments	Fixed point number	Blend fee charged by the acquiring bank. If the acquirer does not provide the transaction information at the payment level, this field is empty.
	Platform Payment Cost Currency	platform payments	Alpha text (3-character limit)	The currency of the Platform Payment Cost fields.
46	Account Holder Description	issuing payouts platform payments	Unicode Text	Your description for the account holder.
47	Account Holder Reference	issuing payouts platform payments	Unicode Text	Your reference for the account holder.
48	Balance Account Description	issuing payouts platform payments	Unicode Text	Your description for the balance account.
49	Balance Account Reference	issuing payouts platform payments	Unicode Text	Your reference for the balance account.
50	Reserved 1	-	-	Reserved for future enhancements.
51	Reserved 2	-	-	Reserved for future enhancements.
52	Reserved 3	-	-	Reserved for future enhancements.
53	Reserved 4	-	-	Reserved for future enhancements.
54	Reserved 5	-	-	Reserved for future enhancements.
55	Reserved 6	-	-	Reserved for future enhancements.
56	Reserved 7	-	-	Reserved for future enhancements.
57	Reserved 8	-	-	Reserved for future enhancements.
58	Reserved 9	-	-	Reserved for future enhancements.
59	Reserved 10	-	-	Reserved for future enhancements.

Additional columns

The following table reflects additional Accounting Report columns.

By default, these columns are not included in the Accounting Report. You can add more report columns to your report from the Customer Area.

Initial column position	Column name	Financial service	Data type	Description

Initial column position	Column name	Financial service	Data type	Description
60	Platform Payment Installments	platform payments	String	Where installment transactions are applicable, this field will show the installment that this line item pertains to. For example, 6/9 to indicate that this is the 6th of 9 installments.
61	Payment Instrument Reference	issuing payouts	String	Your reference to the payment instrument.
62	Payment Instrument Description	issuing payouts	String	The description provided for the payment instrument.
63	Issued Card Scheme Fee	issuing	Numeric	Fee charged by the issued card's network, such as Visa or Mastercard.
	Issued Card Scheme Fee Currency	issuing	String	Currency of the Fee charged by the issued card's network.
64	Event Id	issuing payouts	String	Id to identify unique events on a single transfer. For example: multiple authorization adjustments or cancellations.
65	Flight Ticket Number	issuing	String	The reference number given to a flight ticket by an airline.
66	Capital Reserved Amount	Capital	String
67	Store	payouts platform payments	String	The PSP reference for the store.

Next steps

You can use the Balance Platform Accounting Report for the following common processes.

Payment lifecycle

Track payment lifecycles.

Cash management

Support your cash management.

Authorization rate

Learn how you can increase your authorization rate.