# Downloading premade CSV sales report vs building a sales report

**URL:** <https://developer.squareup.com/forums/t/downloading-premade-csv-sales-report-vs-building-a-sales-report/20197>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** orders-api\
**Created:** [December 20, 2024, 6:43am UTC](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/t/downloading-premade-csv-sales-report-vs-building-a-sales-report/20197 "2024-12-20T06:43:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![AdamL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/91b2a8/32.png) [@AdamL](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/u/AdamL)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2024, 6:43am UTC](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/t/downloading-premade-csv-sales-report-vs-building-a-sales-report/20197/1 "2024-12-20T06:43:42Z")

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Hi! I’m new to development and the Square system. I’m looking to make a program that will download a few CSVs that I will be using data from. Particularly, I’m looking at these two in the Dashboard: Reports → item sales and Reports → modifier sales. Is there a way that I can get these two CSV files through the Square APIs or would I have to build my own Sales Report as demonstrated in the following link?

> **[Build a Sales Report](https://developer.squareup.com/docs/customers/scenarios/simple-sales-report)**
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> The Sales Report sample application shows how to build a report that details all the items sold between two dates.

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**Author:** ![Square-Dev-AI](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/square/forums/user_avatar/developer.squareup.com/square-dev-ai/32/2513_2.png) [@Square-Dev-AI](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/u/Square-Dev-AI)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2024, 6:43am UTC](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/t/downloading-premade-csv-sales-report-vs-building-a-sales-report/20197/2 "2024-12-20T06:43:56Z")

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👋 I’m Square Dev AI, here to help answer your question!  
Based on the information you’ve provided, the following documentation will help answer your question:

> **[Square Dashboard](https://developer.squareup.com/docs/devtools/seller-dashboard)**
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> Use the Square Dashboard to track seller activity, create seller resources, and manage daily business operations.

> **[Developer Console](https://developer.squareup.com/docs/devtools/developer-dashboard)**
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> Use the Developer Dashboard to manage your applications, permissions, and authorizations.

> **Additional Documentation**
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> [Customer API: Securely Manage Customer Data](https://developer.squareup.com/docs/customers)  
> [Merchant APIs](https://developer.squareup.com/docs/merchant-details)  
> [Square Developer Tools](https://developer.squareup.com/docs/devtools/overview)

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**Author:** ![Bryan-Square](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/square/forums/user_avatar/developer.squareup.com/bryan-square/32/38_2.png) [@Bryan-Square](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/u/Bryan-Square)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2024, 6:22pm UTC](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/t/downloading-premade-csv-sales-report-vs-building-a-sales-report/20197/3 "2024-12-20T18:22:33Z")

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At this time the ability to get .csv with our APIs isn’t currently available. We’re constantly working to improve our features based on feedback like this, so I’ll be sure to share your request to the API product team.  
cc: @gabrieljinich

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**Author:** ![tenbyten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/58956e/32.png) [@tenbyten](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/u/tenbyten)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 4:57pm UTC](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/t/downloading-premade-csv-sales-report-vs-building-a-sales-report/20197/4 "2025-01-10T16:57:52Z")

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Is there way to direct any kind of sales reporting data out of square and into google sheets using API?

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**Author:** ![Bryan-Square](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/square/forums/user_avatar/developer.squareup.com/bryan-square/32/38_2.png) [@Bryan-Square](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/u/Bryan-Square)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 6:13pm UTC](https://developer.squareup.com/forums/t/downloading-premade-csv-sales-report-vs-building-a-sales-report/20197/5 "2025-01-10T18:13:31Z")

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Yes, you can definitely write a script that calls our APIs to generate reports. 🙂