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Financial Reports in RunSmart

Learn how to generate, receive, and access year-to-date financial reports.

Updated over 3 weeks ago

The Reports feature in RunSmart helps you stay on top of your business’s financial health by delivering professional, easy-to-read reports straight to your inbox. Reports blend your QuickBooks actuals with RunSmart forecasts, budget-vs-actuals, and health scores—so you always have both an up-to-date view and forward-looking insights to guide your decisions.


What’s Included in Reports

Each report is delivered as a professional PDF that includes:

  • Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow statements

  • Forecast comparisons that show how your actual results stack up against projections

  • Budget vs. actuals analysis to highlight where you’re on track—or falling behind

  • Financial health scores that summarize your overall business performance

Reports are automatically named so they’re easy to organize. For example:
YTD Financial Report – Acme Inc. – October 2025


How Reports Work

  • Automatic scheduling – Reports are generated and delivered via email on the schedule you choose (monthly, quarterly, or annually).

  • Year-to-date view – Each report summarizes performance from the start of the year through the most recently closed month in QuickBooks.

  • Data sources – Reports pull in your QuickBooks actuals and combine them with RunSmart forecasts.

  • RunSmart analysis – On top of the numbers, reports also include budget vs. actuals and financial health scores to give you a deeper understanding of the business's performance and trends.


Receiving Your Reports

Your reports are delivered via email using a secure download link.

  • The subject line will read:
    Your <Company Name> YTD Financial Report for <Month> <Year> is ready!

  • Inside the email, you’ll find a message with a secure link to download your report.

  • For security, links:

    • Expire after 48 hours

    • Can only be used once

    • Require you to enter a 4-digit PIN (set on your profile page) before downloading

If a link has expired, you’ll see this message:

"This link has expired.
For your security, report download links are only valid for 48 hours.
To access your report, please log into your account on a laptop or desktop computer."

PIN Security

  • You can set and manage your 4-digit PIN in your profile under Update PIN.

  • After 6 failed attempts, you’ll be locked out for 30 minutes.

  • During that time, you can still log into RunSmart directly to view reports.


Report History

Want to revisit older reports? The Report History page stores up to 5 years of past reports.

  • Access it from the sidebar under Reports → Report History

  • Reports are displayed in a sortable grid with:

    • Report Name

    • Date and Time generated

    • A PDF icon to download

This makes it easy to track your progress and compare past performance at any time.


Why Reports Matter

Reports bring together everything you need in one secure PDF—your financial performance, forecasts, budget comparisons, and health scores. They help you:

  • Save time – Reports are automatically generated, assembled, and delivered—eliminating the need for you to compile the data into a report manually.

  • See the full picture – Get both actual performance and forward-looking insights in one place.

  • Stay secure – Expiring links and PIN protection keep your sensitive data safe.

  • Reliable archive – Access up to 5 years of report history, giving you a reliable archive to reference or share whenever the need arises.

  • Share with confidence – Professional, standardized reports make it easy to update partners, investors, or advisors with accurate and trustworthy information.


Tip: By default, reports are sent monthly, but you can change this to quarterly or annually in your report settings.

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