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How to generate your Available Balance report?

Important
As of December 12th, you will no longer be able to create new Money withdrawn reports. In order to keep tracking all the transfers, withdrawals and movements of your available money, please use the Releases report.

Generating channels

There are three ways to generate an Available Balance report:

ChannelsDescription
Mercado Pago panel
It's very simple and fast. To generate it from your Mercado Pago account, go to your reports and choose the Reports option.

Follow the step by step to generate reports from this panel.

API integration
This integration can only be used to consult and download the reports manual and does not allow generating new reports.

Con el retiro de dinero
Generate a report automatically each time you withdraw your available balance to a bank account.

Follow the step by step to generate reports for each withdrawal.

Technical characteristics of the report

Consider the following technical information when you want to generate, schedule and set up your reports.

Report Schedule

Set up how and how often you want to generate your reports.

ElementCharacteristics
Schedule
- Daily.
- Weekly.
- Monthly.

Generation
- Manual.
- Automatic for withdrawal of available balance, total or partial.

These generation instances can live together. That is, even if you schedule the generation of your reports automatically, each time you withdraw money an additional report will be generated.

Report Structure

Know the characteristics of the elements that make up your report.

Element or ActionCharacteristics
Tables Detail
The detail of the tables includes information generated in at least 1 day. Except in the reports generated by money withdrawal.

Column Order
Permanent.

Maximum Period
Reports with data of up to 60 days.

Currency
Local (based on the country where the Mercado Pago account is registered).

Time zone of the columns
GMT-4

Take as reference the place where you download the report from.

Date selection via API
Timezone format: UTC / GMT-0.

Date selection via web
DIt must be based on the timezone of the user's account.
For example, the timezone of Sao Paulo corresponds to the user account registered in Brazil.

Report Export

All the options you have available when downloading your report.

Element or ActionCharacteristicsFilename format
When the report is scheduled or manual:
"<configurable-prefix>-<yyyy-MM-dd-hhmmss>.<format>"
Example: mystore-2019-05-28-104010.csv

When the report is generated by a money withdrawal:
"configurable-prefix-withdrawal-id-creation-date.csv"
Example: mystore-ID23902138-28-05-2019.csv

Download formats
.csv, .xlsx

Tip: Download the report in .csv to import the data and use it in other applications. Download it in .xlsx to read the information in the spreadsheet tables.

File
The generated reports are saved in your Mercado Pago account.

Set up available via API
- Columns to generate per report
- File prefix for easy identification
- SFTP upload
- Column separator (period or semicolon)
- Decimal separator (comma or period)
- Email notification
- Withdrawal at the end of the report (optional)

Note
Have the Glossary of the Available Balance report on hand to review it when needed or want to review a technical term.