Monthly report showing amount paid in PayPal fees?

[Cieslak]

I need to know how much I pay each month in PayPal fees for tax purposes. I cannot find a way to get a report that includes this information. The only way I have managed it is to generate a monthly report for "balance affecting transaction" and compare it to the total monthly reported income on my 1099. There must be amore efficient/accurate way to do this!

[sharpiemarker]

@Cieslak 

Activity > Statements > Custom > Activity Download

Select Transaction type, date range, customize report fields, and report format.

[Cieslak]

I'm sorry, this does not answer my question. I have tried every type of report, "All transactions," "Balance affecting," and "Completed," and not a single one of them has line items listed that show the PayPal fees.

More specifically: I sell through an external merchant. The average product costs $8. Every report I see that has $8 sales shows them as $7.47, because I paid .53 in PayPal fees. I need a report that shows how much I paid in PayPal fees, not how much I received *before* or *after* the fees were paid. 

If I take one of those reports and get the grand total of money in and compare it to the amount listed on my 1099 for that month, the amounts differ. I assume the difference is the fees, but I am not certain. I need a way to have a report that tells me how much I pay in PayPal fees ONLY MONTHLY.

[Jflorinki]

I am also in need of this report and have tried all of them but do not see a field for fees.  

[Posy]

The best option I have come up with to quickly show each month's total fees without having to download & open 12 monthly statements is to use Excel (my solution for everything...). In PayPal's Report section, select Activity Download, I just used the Balance Affecting option, select the dates for the financial year and CSV format.

After downloading & opening the spreadsheet I deleted the columns I didn't need (just to determine the monthly fees you'd really only need the Date & Fee columns), changed the date format to mmm-yy then used Excel's Subtotals function to total at each change in date, and there they all are quickly ready for entry into your accounting system.

Though it's probably a good idea to save/print out each month's statements for tax documentation purposes.

Not sure why PayPay can't just add a simple report function though - any reason why this has to be so hard PayPal????  

[Treacle100]

Hi - I have just found this on all on page 2 of the Activity Summary reports (just create them per month) or you can view under Activity-> All reports -> Financial Summaries

[Jflorinki]

I do not see a page 2 on any of my reports.

[Jflorinki]

I see them now in the monthly statements now.  I was hoping to have this information available in the CSV file all in one document without recreating another.