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How to Generate Reports in the CRM

May 11, 2026 · tropicalhilladmin

The Reports section is intentionally focused: right now it offers one report — the Invoice Report — built for pulling a clean, presentable summary of your invoicing over any date range.

Generating an Invoice Report

  • Click Invoice Report to open the report builder.

  • Pick a From and To date — it defaults to the trailing 12 months, but you can set any range you need.

  • Choose how to sort the invoices: by Date, Invoice #, Customer, Status, Total, or Balance Due.

  • Choose how to group them: no grouping, or broken into sections by Customer, Status, or Month.

  • Click Preview PDF to generate the report.

What's in the report

  • Each invoice row shows Date, Invoice #, Customer, Status, Total, Paid, and Balance Due.

  • If you chose a grouping, each group gets its own heading (the customer name, status, or month) with its own subtotal row for Total, Paid, and Balance Due.

  • The report opens in a preview pane first, so you can check it looks right before committing to a download.

Getting the report out

  • Download PDF saves the exact report you're previewing as a PDF file.

  • Export CSV exports the same grouped, sorted data as a CSV instead, with group headings and subtotal rows preserved — useful if you want to drop the numbers into a spreadsheet.

  • Click ← Back from the preview to adjust your date range, sort, or grouping and regenerate without starting over.

A few tips

  • Group by Status when you want a quick read on how much is still outstanding — the subtotal row per group gives you a fast total of everything unpaid.

  • Group by Month for a simple month-over-month view of invoicing volume without needing a chart.

  • Group by Customer before a specific client conversation — it's an easy way to hand someone (or yourself) a clean per-customer summary.

  • Use CSV export instead of PDF if you want to do further math on the numbers — pivot tables, year-over-year comparisons, and so on are much easier outside a PDF.