This page covers how to run and read the reports available in BareLedger, plus the separate customer statement page.

Step 1: Open Reports and pick one

Go to Reports (in the Reports section of the sidebar) and choose a report from the dropdown. As you pick different ones, a short plain-English hint appears explaining what that report actually shows. The main options are:

  • Balance sheet — what you own, owe, and are worth, as of a specific date.
  • Income statement — what you earned and spent over a period, and the profit left over.
  • Cash flow — where cash came from and where it went.
  • Trial balance — every account's balance, to check that total debits equal total credits.
  • General ledger — every posting, in date order, for a period (or one account).
  • Tax summary — tax charged on sales versus tax paid on purchases, and the net amount payable.
  • A/R aging — money customers owe you, grouped by how overdue it is.
  • A/P aging — money you owe suppliers, grouped by how overdue it is.
  • Books of accounts — six official statutory-format books (general journal, general ledger book, sales book, purchase book, cash receipts book, and cash disbursements book). They're available on every plan, like everything else in the app.
  • Audit trail — the full record of postings and system activity for a period. Each row shows a Seq (its position in this report, 1 to N) and a Record ID (the underlying database id). Record IDs are shared across every organization on the platform and also cover platform-level events such as sign-ins, so gaps between your Record IDs are normal and are not a sign of missing or altered rows — entries cannot be edited or deleted once written.

Step 2: Fill in the dates and generate

Depending on the report, you'll see a From/To date range, a single As of date, or no date fields at all (for the aging reports). On the trial balance, general ledger, and income statement you can also narrow things down with a Filter by row for department, cost center, or project — exports of a filtered report match what's on screen. Click Generate — nothing runs until you press it. The report then shows up right on the page as a document you can read (the two aging reports also show quick summary totals — Current, 1–30, 31–60, 61–90, and 90+ days overdue — above the full report).

Step 3: Export it

Once a report has run, an Export button lets you download it as a PDF, CSV, Excel, or Word file. There's no built-in email/send option — if you need to share it, export first and attach it wherever you're sending it.

Statement of Account (for a specific customer)

This is a separate page, found under Collections → Statement of Account, not in the main Reports dropdown. Pick a customer, then a date range, and it shows a running list of everything affecting their balance — invoices, credit/debit notes, payments, and so on — ending with their current outstanding balance. It's shown right on the page as a table, and you can click Export PDF to download it. This statement is a summary for the customer's convenience — it's explicitly not an invoice and doesn't replace one.

If a report or button doesn't show up

Reports generally require your role to include report access — if the whole Reports page is missing for you, ask an administrator to grant it. The separate Audit Trail page needs its own, different access, so it's possible to have regular report access without seeing audit logs (or vice versa).