Square's Application Fees via the Payments API

Questions
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Does anyone know where I can get reports on Square’s Application Fees that are collected via the Payments API?

For those not familiar… Here’s how it works:

You (as the platform or facilitator) create the payment using Square’s Payments API.
You can specify an “application fee amount” in the API call.

Square then automatically splits the transaction:
The net amount (minus processing fees) goes to the connected seller.
The application fee is deposited into the platform operator’s Square account.

For example
$20.00 Order
-$0.88 Square Fees
-$1.00 Facilitator/Platform Fee ← I’m trying to find reports for these as the platform operator.

$18.12 Deposited to Seller

These are NOT sales so they don’t show up under any sales reports that I can see. We just see our balance increase with no reports of why!

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That doesn’t tell me where to find the reports.

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Currently, there isn’t any Square generated reports for app_fee_money. You would need to use our APIs to create reports with the payment and payout data from the APIs. 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. :slight_smile: