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This article will outline what reporting options are available to you as a provider. This reporting can be valuable for your own program's tax purposes or if you are pulling reporting on behalf of a parent for a student at your program.
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Reporting Options
There are a few reporting options available in your brightwheel account to help you collect needed information during tax season. The Student Transaction Summary is helpful if you’re pulling reporting on behalf of a family for their student(s). The Revenue Report is the best option for an administrator pulling reporting on behalf of the program, and the Billing Transactions Report is an additional reporting option that just further breaks down what you see in the Revenue Report.
Student Transaction Summary
If you need reporting on student transactions that occurred during a specific date range that is exportable as a PDF, the Student Transaction Summary report is a great option. Administrators can export the transaction summary for any student over any desired timeline and easily provide this to applicable families.
Log in to an administrator account on the web
Click to open the Billing page from the purple sidebar menu
Jump to the Students tab
Locate and click to open the desired student's billing profile
Open the All transactions tab
Open the Credits & payments tab
Remove the 'Credit' filter under Transaction Type
Click the purple Export button
Use the date picker to determine the Start and End dates
Click Export once more
Click Download if desired to download the report right in your browser or view the copy sent to your account's email address
Please Note: If the steps above are not what you see in your account, please see here for relevant steps!
Revenue Report
To pull reporting that quickly and easily shows how much your program received for a given charge category in a specific date range, our Revenue Report is the best option!
Open the Billing page, then Reports, and finally, Revenue Report
💡You can also access this report through the Reporting pageUpdate the ‘Start/End date’ filters as needed
Use the ‘Group by’ drop-down filter as needed
Click Apply Filters
Click Export or Print
If exporting, choose to Download right in the browser or select/add email addresses and click the purple Email to button to send
To learn additional details about this report and review some FAQS, please see our Revenue Report resource.
Billing Transactions Report
If you need reporting that has more comprehensive information on all transactions that have been recorded on the school's ledger, the Billing Transactions Report is a great option. You can export this report as a CSV and use any spreadsheet software to filter the transaction types like online/offline payments, refunds, and voids.
Log in to an administrator account on the web
Click to open the Billing page on the purple sidebar menu
Jump to the Reports tab
Click to open the Billing Transactions report
Select the Earliest post date and Latest post date
💡By default, the dates will be set to list all of the transactions on your account in the last 30 days but can be adjusted as needed.Select the Transaction type(s) that should be included in the report
Set the Student, Room, and Student status filters, if desired
Click Apply Filters
Click the gray Export button
Deselect any fields you don't want to be included in the export
Select recipients from the list, or add email addresses for new recipients
Click the orange Send to button
The exported report will be sent via email and can be opened in Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers, or any other spreadsheet tool.
For Providers that Updated Billing Platforms This Year
The steps above are relevant for any providers who reside on Billing Version 3 currently or migrated from Version 2 to Version 3 in 2022. All V2 data transfers directly to V3 and will be reflected in the student's billing profile and in reports.
If you migrated from Version 1 to 3 in 2022, please see our Access Legacy Billing Data as a Provider resource for the applicable steps.
Parent Resources
If you want to share relevant resources with your parents to help them prepare for tax season, view the Tax Resources to share with Parents article. This resource links to related articles and PDFs that can be shared directly with parents based on your program's billing platform version.
Review all tax-related resources below!
Please Note: This publication is designed to provide general information regarding the subject matter covered. It is not intended to serve as legal, tax, or other financial advice related to individual situations. Because each individual's legal, tax, and financial situation differs, specific advice should be tailored to the particular circumstances. For this reason, you are advised to consult with your own attorney, CPA, and/or other advisors regarding your specific situation.