Glossary
Last updated: Oct 30th, 12:38pm
Report File Naming Convention
The report file naming convention for a report generated for an individual partner account is as follows:
${encryptedSubscriptionId}-{NodeIdentifier}-{subfamily}-{templateName}-{dateCadence}-{fileNumber}-{totalFile}-{genDateTime}.{extension}
| Field | Length | Information | Example |
| Encrypted Subscription ID | 7 | Subscription ID within PayPal | ADSF13S |
| Node Identifier | 45 | For PayPal accounts, this corresponds to the partner's encrypted account number (PayerID) For Fee reports which are generated at ORG level this would correspond to Organization name |
9HBKUHNC34696 |
| Sub Family | 20 | Sub family of Report |
BTR for Balance Transactional Report DTR for Disbursement Report FTR for Fee Transactional Report |
| Template Name | 50 | Managed or user-given template name |
BALANCE_TRANSACTIO NAL_REPORT |
| Date Cadence | 4-29 |
For daily report : Report date in YYYYMMDD (ISO-8601) format in the merchant's time zone For a Custom Date Range : {startDateTime}-{endDateTime} Both date and time are in YYYYMMddHHmmss (ISO-8601 without separators) in the partner's time zone. Length 29 is including the delimiter for {startDateTime}-{endDateTime} |
For example, August 1st to August 31st 2022 is shown as: 20220801000000-20220831235959 |
| File Number | 3 | Current file number or sequence from 1 to 999 | None |
| Total File | 3 | Total number of files in this report from 1 to 999 | None |
| Window | 2 |
Optional. 2-digit offset from the Coordinated Universal Time on which the report is generated. This is useful when generating multiple reports for the same entity, like MAM. |
None |
| Gen DateTime | 14 | Unique generation ID. Generated in YYYYMMddHHmmss format. | None |
| Extension | 3 | Filename extension | None |
| Delimiters | 9 | '-', '.' | None |
| Total length | 185 | Length to be limited to 200 | None |
| format | None | One of the following:
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None |
Sample report file names:
- Balance Report : 0000ZIZ-YWSCZZCDSYKGA-BTR-BALANCE_TRANSACTIONAL_REPORT-20220601-1-1-20220602000000.CSV
- Disbursements report : 0000ZIZ-YWSCZZCDSYKGA-DTR-DISBURSEMENTS_REPORT-20230625-1-1-20230625000000.CSV
- Fee Report : 0000-SHOPIFY-FR-FTR-FEE_TRANSACTIONAL_REPORT-20220601-1-1-20220602000000.CSV.
Record types and subtypes for Partner fee revenue reports
| Record Type | Record Subtypes | Description |
| Sale | Payment received from a buyer for sale of goods or services. | |
| Refund | Payment sent to a buyer when you refund them the money they paid you for a sale. | |
| Dispute | Money movement resulting from a dispute filed by your buyer or you. | |
| Reversal | Payment reversals due to disputes and risks checks. | |
| Partner fees | Revenue coming through Partner Fee charged per transaction. Fees charged by a partner for processing a transaction. | |
| Currency conversion | Balance conversion from / Balance conversion to / Conversion from / Conversion to | Accounting transaction generated to capture currency conversion details and costs. |
| Funds transfer | Sent/Received | Applicable if Partner uses Transfer api to payout to their merchants or to receive from their merchants |
| Funds transfer | Transfer refund | Reversal of a Funds transfer transaction |
| Withdraw money | Withdrawal of money from your balance to a bank or non-banking institution account by you or auto-generated business events. | |
| Failed disbursement | Bank reversal | Failure of an automated transaction that was initiated by PayPal to disburse the money from your balance to your linked bank account. |
| Adjustment | Debits or credits made by PayPal in order to make adjustments in your account. | |
| Fees | Withdrawal fees | Fees charged on withdrawals from PayPal balance under special circumstances. |
| Fees | Payout fees | Fees charged on mass-payouts. |
| Fees | Bank return fees | If partner takes liability to pay the fees for bank returns. May not be applicable for Partner fee but would apply for Loss account etc. |
Note: All these Record types and subtypes are being provided considering the use cases wrt Partner Fee account and revenue for same and costs. If there are going to be any new transactions planned in future this list would have to be enhanced accordingly.