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How it works

Tight’s Financial Reporting API makes it easy for you to provide your users with accounting reports. Take a look at our Financial Reporting docs for an overview on how to easily generate reports for your users.

Pick the most applicable accounting report

Depending on your target user’s profile and your app’s positioning, the best income report for your use case may vary. Tight provides the following accounting reports, all of which can be customized to match your branding:

Populate the desired parameters

Each report has a varying list of available parameters, e.g. to filter data to a certain date range. The list of available parameters for each of the expense reports is listed below: The format for each parameter is listed below:

Generate your accounting report

Once you’ve decided on the desired report, you can build a report JSON object, including the name of your report, as well as any desired params. To generate the report, simply create a POST call, as shown below:

Display an interactive report

The Tight Embedded experience provides you with the capability to embed interactive (drill-down) reports in your product, with options for customizing the time period grouping of the report: a) Balance Sheet component b) Cash Flow Statement component c) Profit & Loss component d) Trial Balance component