Understanding PracticeRunner Reports
A plain-language guide to report names, accounting terms, date rules, imported records, CSV downloads, and PDF copies.
Reports should make patterns easier to see, not make you decode accounting language. PracticeRunner uses plain-language report names in the app and shows the more formal reporting term beneath each name. This keeps the reports easy to scan during day-to-day practice work while keeping the terminology recognizable to billers and accountants.
Go to Reports in PracticeRunner, choose a report, select the period you want, and choose Refresh. Use Download CSV when you want a spreadsheet-ready copy. Use Print / Save PDF when you want a readable snapshot to save or share.
Report name comparison
| Name in PracticeRunner | Formal reporting term | What it helps you understand |
|---|---|---|
| Practice Overview | Solo Practice Overview | Services, fees, payments, percent collected, and unpaid balances in one place. |
| Services & Payments | Production & Collections | The difference between work provided, amounts billed, payments recorded, adjustments, and balances still unpaid. |
| Payments Received | Cash Collections | Payments recorded during the selected period. |
| Unpaid Balances by Age | Accounts Receivable Aging | Unpaid invoice balances grouped by how long they have been outstanding. |
| Services & Fees | Service Revenue & Volume | Billable service counts and fees for services provided, grouped by service. |
| Client & Case Billing | Client/Case Revenue | Amounts billed, payments applied, and current unpaid balances by case. |
| Appointments & Attendance | Attendance Report | Appointment outcomes such as shows, planned absences, no-shows, and cancellations. |
| Clinician Activity | Provider Productivity Report | Appointment activity and payments attributable to each clinician’s appointments. |
| Scheduling Activity | Practice Utilization Report | Scheduled and completed appointment activity by clinician and period. It does not estimate open calendar capacity. |
| Caseload | Caseload Report | Active clients and cases by clinician, including recent appointment activity. |
| Where Inquiries Come From | Referral Source Report | Which sources bring inquiries and which sources lead to consultations or active clients. |
| Inquiry Outcomes | Intake Funnel and Conversion Report | What happened to inquiries and how long it took to record an outcome. |
| Payments & Services by Clinician | Clinician Billing Activity | Service activity and explicitly attributed ledger payments by clinician. It does not calculate compensation. |
| Unpaid Balances by Clinician | Provider Accounts Receivable Aging | Unpaid balances grouped by clinician, with multi-clinician invoices kept separate. |
| Activity for Payroll | Payroll Activity Export | Appointment, attendance, service, fee, invoice, and source activity for an outside payroll process. |
| Activity for Your Accountant | Accounting Handoff | Ledger-backed payments, refunds, disputes, reversals, credits, and corrections for bookkeeping review. |
| Stripe Deposits & Fees | Stripe Payout Reconciliation | Stripe payments, refunds, disputes, actual processing fees, and expected bank deposits. |
| Tax Preparation Summary | Cash Collections and Processor Fee Summary | Ledger-backed payments for a selected month, quarter, or year, with supplemental Stripe fees and expected deposits. |
The accounting and tax-preparation reports provide source information for reconciliation and tax preparation. PracticeRunner does not determine tax treatment, prepare a return, calculate payroll, or decide clinician compensation. Share the export with the accountant, bookkeeper, or payroll system responsible for those decisions.
Reports shown for different practice structures
PracticeRunner adjusts the Reports page based on the active clinical team:
- A practice with one licensed clinician and no associates sees Practice Overview, the solo-practice summary.
- A practice with one licensed clinician and one or more associates sees Team and associate reporting instead of the solo-only overview.
- A practice with more than one licensed clinician sees the Group practice reporting package instead of the solo-only overview.
- Practice-wide clinician, payroll, and accounting reports are available only to owners, admins, and global admins. Tax Preparation Summary is available only to owners. Clinicians and associates continue to see reports within their permitted scope.
An inactive clinician does not change which reporting package is shown. The distinction is based on active owner, provider, and associate roles. The report routes also enforce practice-wide access, so hiding a report card is not the security control.
Group-practice handoffs without payroll calculations
The group-practice package keeps operational facts separate from decisions made in payroll and accounting systems.
Payments & Services by Clinician places two date bases beside each other: services use the appointment date, while payments and adjustments use the ledger date. A payment appears under a clinician only when that ledger entry has explicit clinician attribution. PracticeRunner does not use these totals to infer a pay rate or compensation amount.
Unpaid Balances by Clinician attributes an invoice to its single appointment clinician. When no appointment clinician is available, it can fall back to the case’s primary clinician. An invoice connected to more than one appointment clinician appears under Multiple clinicians and is counted once. It is not divided or duplicated.
Activity for Payroll exports appointment-level operational details, including service date, clinician, service, attendance, billable units, fee per unit, service value, invoice status, import source, and a PracticeRunner reference. The receiving payroll process decides which activities are payable and applies compensation, deductions, taxes, and payroll rules.
Activity for Your Accountant exports actual ledger entries and transaction references. It excludes inferred imported payments because those historical records do not contain an original payment transaction. The receiving accounting process decides account mapping, journal entries, reconciliation treatment, and tax treatment.
Which date does a report use?
The same dollar can appear in different periods depending on what the report measures. A service may happen in January, be invoiced in February, and be paid in March.
- Services provided use the appointment’s service date.
- Amounts billed use the finalized invoice date.
- Payments and adjustments use the date of the accounting ledger entry.
- Unpaid balances are a snapshot as of the end date you select.
- Client & Case Billing starts with invoices issued in the selected period, then shows the current amount applied and still unpaid for that invoice group.
- Attendance and scheduling activity use appointment dates.
- Inquiry reports use the dates recorded in the prospect workflow.
For that January service invoiced in February and paid in March, Services & Payments can show production in January, the charge in February, and the collection in March. This is intentional. It keeps service activity, billing activity, and cash activity from being treated as the same event.
Imported invoices and recorded payments
An imported invoice and a payment recorded in the accounting ledger are not automatically the same thing.
- PracticeRunner invoice: An invoice created in PracticeRunner. Its charges and ledger activity can be included normally.
- Imported, ledger-backed invoice: An imported invoice with payment or adjustment transactions that were also imported. Those transactions can support payment and balance reporting.
- Imported document only: Historical invoice information was imported, but the original payment transactions were not. The document may say that it was paid, but it does not by itself create a payment in the PracticeRunner ledger.
- Inferred imported payment: A historical invoice or superbill appears paid even though the original payment transaction was not imported. Payments Received can include this only when you deliberately select the option to include inferred imported payments. Other core financial totals keep it separate from ledger-backed payments.
This distinction prevents imported documents from inflating recorded cash collections. It also lets you preserve useful historical evidence without representing it as a transaction that PracticeRunner can verify.
Reporting glossary
| Plain-language label | Formal term | Meaning in PracticeRunner |
|---|---|---|
| Services provided | Gross production | Fees attached to billable services by service date, before considering whether an invoice was sent or paid. |
| Amount billed | Invoice charges | Charges on finalized invoices by invoice date. Draft and void invoices are excluded. |
| Payments received | Gross collections or cash collections | Payment transactions recorded in the ledger before refunds, reversals, disputes, and other adjustments. |
| Refunds and adjustments | Collection adjustments | Ledger entries that reduce or correct collected amounts, including refunds, reversals, disputes, and corrections. |
| Payments after adjustments | Net collections | Gross collections after collection adjustments. |
| Still unpaid | Outstanding balance or accounts receivable | The portion of finalized invoice charges that remains unpaid. |
| Unpaid balances by age | Accounts receivable aging | Outstanding balances grouped into current, 1 to 30 days, 31 to 60 days, 61 to 90 days, and 91 or more days. |
| Percent collected | Collection rate | The share of eligible invoice charges in an invoice group that currently has ledger amounts applied. |
| Invoice group | Invoice cohort | The invoices selected because their invoice dates fall within the chosen period. |
| Payment attributed to a clinician | Attributable collected income | A recorded payment connected to appointments assigned to that clinician. This is activity data, not a compensation calculation. |
| Recorded in the ledger | Ledger-backed | Supported by an actual payment, refund, adjustment, or other accounting entry in PracticeRunner. |
| Scheduling activity | Utilization | Counts and rates based on scheduled appointments. The current report does not calculate capacity from available hours. |
CSV and PDF copies
Every report provides a CSV download for spreadsheet review and handoff. Currency reports include the currency code so the amount is not separated from its denomination. CSV files preserve the report’s underlying values instead of currency symbols that can interfere with spreadsheet calculations.
Choose Print / Save PDF for a readable copy of the current report view. Your browser’s print window lets you print the report or save it as a PDF. Filters and the selected date period should be set before you create either export.
Before sending a report outside the practice, review its filters and contents. Reports can contain client names and financial information, so use the same secure handling practices you use for other practice records.
A practical month-end sequence
- Open Practice Overview for the month to check the overall pattern.
- Open Services & Payments to compare services provided, amounts billed, and payments received.
- Open Unpaid Balances by Age to identify balances that may need follow-up.
- Use Payments Received when reconciling cash activity for the month.
- Download the relevant CSV files for your accountant, bookkeeper, or other authorized financial professional.
