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Last updated: Aug 15th, 7:09am

Reports help you manage day-to-day operations by providing transaction-level insight.

Contact your account manager or Merchant Technical Support to set up report access and parameters. Then, create a secure FTP user account on the PayPal site.

The following reports are available:

About the reports

All Partner reports adhere to the following limitations or conditions:

  • Timing. Reports are generated every 24 hours and placed on the SFTP server by 12pm daily in the leading time zone of the reporting window.
  • Data format. Reports are available in CSV delimited format.
  • Character encoding. UTF-8.
  • Retention. Reports are available via the SFTP server for 45 days after its delivery to the server.
  • File record limit. A report file has a 10k file size limit. If a day's transactions exceed this file size limit, PayPal splits the report across multiple files.