# How current do the totals have to be?

[Choose a reporting strategy](https://devportal-simpay-sbx.winkpg.io/docs/decide/reporting-strategy.md): Whether to ask this platform for payment data on a schedule, or to have it sent to you as it happens, and what each one costs you to run.

A figure computed on a schedule is one request. A figure that moves during the day is a stream you accumulate yourself.

**Your answers so far**

- What does your reporting need from each payment? A periodic total. Counts and amounts over a day, a week, or a month.

**Choose one**

- [A figure computed on a schedule answers the question.](https://devportal-simpay-sbx.winkpg.io/docs/decide/reporting-strategy/poll-the-summary-reports.md): Yesterday's numbers this morning, or this month's at month end.
- [Someone watches the number move through the day.](https://devportal-simpay-sbx.winkpg.io/docs/decide/reporting-strategy/keep-your-own-totals-from-webhooks.md): An operations board, or an alert on the day's takings.

- [Start over](https://devportal-simpay-sbx.winkpg.io/docs/decide/reporting-strategy.md): go back to the first question.

## See also

- [All documentation](https://devportal-simpay-sbx.winkpg.io/llms.txt): the machine-readable index of every public page on this site.