# How soon after a payment do you need it?

[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.

This is the question that rules polling in or out. Nothing you poll on a schedule arrives sooner than the schedule.

**Your answers so far**

- What does your reporting need from each payment? Every payment on its own, with its own detail.

**Choose one**

- [A scheduled run is soon enough. Minutes or hours later is fine.](https://devportal-simpay-sbx.winkpg.io/docs/decide/reporting-strategy/how-many-payments-a-day.md): A nightly load, or a report someone runs when they need it.
- [Within seconds of the payment.](https://devportal-simpay-sbx.winkpg.io/docs/decide/reporting-strategy/where-a-live-feed-lands.md): Something of yours has to act on the payment, not just record it.

- [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.