The Stored Value Balance Report

The Stored Value Balance Report can be found in the Reporting section of Essential.

This report allows you to view and track balances and liabilities related to your stored value program. This report will only appear if your brand uses a currency balance type for Stored Value programs. You’ll be able to select a date cut-off as well as a Currency Type if your brand uses more than one.

Be sure you have an Account Group selected or applied to your user to view all of the reports.

Report Views

Your report view will change depending on your view choice. You’ll be able to select from Location, Program, Card Set, Reward Type, and Holds.

Location View: This view breaks the report table out by owning location.
Program View: This view breaks the report table out by program.
Card Set View: This view breaks the report table out by card set.
Currency Type View: This view breaks the report out by all currency types.
Holds View: This view will return all of the balances with a held status.

Infobox

The infobox showing the Balance will appear within the Location, Program, and Card Set views.

Table Columns

Columns available will vary based on the view that is selected.
Table Columns Include:
- Location (Location view only)
- Program (Program view only)
- Program Type (Program view only)
- External ID (Location and Card Set views only)
- Card Set (Card Set view only)
- Currency Type (Currency Type and Holds views only)
- Held Balance (Holds view only)
- Segment (All views except Holds)
- Balance (All views except Holds)
- Expired Balance (All views except Holds)
Note that the Segment column will only populate if your brand has used Segment Import to tag and split out a balance for a segment of cards.
If you want to view any definitions for these metrics, you can consult the article here.

The Stored Value Balance Report in Location View.

Date Range

All dates are specific to the brand’s reporting time zone that is configured in their brand settings.

Start Dates begin as of 12:00:00AM of the chosen date.
End Dates end as of 11:59:59PM of the chosen date.

Filters

You can target specific data within your report by selecting from More Filters. These filters include:

Location: Allows you to filter transactions by location.
Program: Allows you to filter transactions by program.

Aging Export

This export will provide an Excel file with a burndown of all balances that match the filter criteria. You can export an Excel file by clicking the Aging Export button. The file is broken out vertically by issuing month and horizontally by each activity month since the issuing month The export is not available in report Views that show multiple balance types (Ex: Reward Type, Currency, or Holds) because it can only be run for one balance type at a time.

Reading the aging report:

Headers

Initial Credit Month – The month in which the cards were issued.
Cards – The total count of cards issued in the given month.
Initial Credit Amount – The total value issued to the cards in the given month.
Description – The row descriptions.
Date – The month in which the value is being measured.

Rows

Issuance Amount – Of the issued cards in the initial credit month, this row shows the amount issued to those cards.
Redemption Amount – Of the cards the were issued in the Initial Credit Month, the amount that was redeemed from those cards.
Remaining Amount – Of the cards issued in the initial credit month, how much is remaining at the end of the column month.
% of Remaining Liability – {Remaining Amount / (Initial Credit Amount + Issuance Amounts)}

You can download an example of this export here.

Detail Export

This export provides a card-level detail of all of the cards that have balances matching the filter criteria. Note that this export is not available in report views that show multiple balance types as it can only be run for one balance type at a time. You can export either an Excel or CSV file by clicking the Detail Export button. All files over 1 million records will automatically be converted to CSV. When your export finishes processing, it will be available to download in the Notification Center or Report Center.