# How the Reports API works

Access Stripe financial reports programmatically to automate finance and accounting workflows.

The [financial reports](https://dashboard.stripe.com/reports) in the Dashboard provide downloadable reports in CSV format for a variety of accounting and reconciliation tasks. These reports are also available through the Reports API. Schedule them to run automatically or run them whenever you need the associated report files for accounting purposes. The [Reports v2 API](https://docs.stripe.com/data/api/reports.md) also includes more than 200 SQL templates for common business questions.

You can also automatically export your Stripe data to Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Databricks, or BigQuery with [Stripe Data Pipeline](https://docs.stripe.com/data/access-data-in-warehouse.md).

## Report types 

These Dashboard reports are available from the API:

- [Balance](https://docs.stripe.com/reports/report-types/balance.md)
- [Payout reconciliation](https://docs.stripe.com/reports/report-types/payout-reconciliation.md)
- [Fees](https://docs.stripe.com/reports/report-types/fees.md)
- [Financial accounts](https://docs.stripe.com/reports/report-types/financial-accounts.md)
- [Tax](https://docs.stripe.com/reports/report-types/tax.md)
- [Connect platforms](https://docs.stripe.com/reports/report-types/connect.md)
- [Commerce](https://docs.stripe.com/reports/report-types/commerce.md)