Activity Reports

Activity Logs

Activity log is a detailed record of all the activities that were carried out in your organization during a particular period of time. In short, it provides details on the when, what, where and who of an action performed.

When - The time and date of the action.
What - The description of the action performed such as creating an invoice or updating a bill.
Where - The module pertaining to which the action was performed. It can be Invoices, Bank Feeds or Integrations.
Who - The user who performed the action.

Activity logs helps you to oversee the actions that are performed in Zoho Books and gives you a chance to review those actions performed in your Zoho Books organization in the case of any suspected fraud.

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View Activity Log Report

Go to Reports > Activity > Activity Logs.
Select a period of your choice and the report will be automatically generated.

Let us take a look at the different sections that this report contains:

Sections	Description
Time	The exact date and time of the action.
Activity Details	Provides details on the module, account and related contact.
Description	Details on the action performed along with the name of the user.

Customize Activity Log Report

Go to Reports > Activity > Activity Logs.
Click Customize Report in the top of the page.

You can customize the report based on:

Filters	Description
Date Range	The period for which you want the activity log.
Activity Related To	The particular module (Invoices, Chart of Accounts) or the action related to a module (Reconciliation, Bank Accounts and Feeds).
Vendor/Customer Name	In case the selected action pertains to any Sales/Purchase module, you will have the option to choose a particular Customer/Vendor respectively.
User	Filter activity by users in your organization.
Actions	You can filter by All actions or just Create, Update or Delete actions.
PII Fields	Run the report to view only the changes made to any Personally Identifiable Information (PII).

Export and Print Report

You can download this report by clicking Export As in the top right corner of the page and selecting the file format in which you want to download.

You can also print the report by clicking the Print icon in the top right side of the page.

View History of Changes with Audit Trails

Audit Trails in Zoho Books lets you view and track the history of changes made to any transaction. With every change, a new version of the transaction gets created. You will able to compare the versions to view exactly by whom and when a change was made.

Note: Audit Trail is currently available only for organizations in the UK, UAE, KSA, Bahrain, India and EU Countries. If you want us to add this feature for your country, please write to us at support@zohobooks.com.

You can access this feature in the activity logs. To do this:

Go to the Reports module from the left sidebar.
Click Activity Logs under the Activity section.
Click the > Arrow mark on the right side of the activity that you’d like to check.

This will fetch the current version of the transaction along with a list of all the previous versions on the right.

Note: A new version of a transaction is created when changes are made to the transaction.

To find out what has changed between two versions of a transaction, you can choose to compare them. This can be done with ease:

Click Compare in the top right corner.
Select any two versions of the transaction that you’d like to compare.
Click Compare.

Insight: You can view multiple versions of the changes that were made to your records in Zoho Books such as the reporting tags, credit notes, invoices, bills, customer payments, vendor payments, journals, recurring journal, vendor credits, expenses, recurring expenses, recurring invoices, recurring bills, estimates, credit note refunds, vendor credit refunds, payment refunds, vendor payment refunds, items, currencies, purchase orders, delivery challans, sales orders, retainer invoices, contacts, opening balances, tax settings, debit notes, credit note vendors, shipping bills, bill of entry, bill of supply, gst settings, cis settings, vat settings, sales receipts, transfer funds, card payments, owner drawings, sales without invoices, sales returns, interest income, other income, expense refunds, deposit, refunds, tax adjustment and owner contributions.

The two versions are listed side by side. You will be able to view the differences in the values highlighted in three different colours.

Yellow - Data has been edited/modified.
Pink - Data has been removed/deleted.
Green - Data has been added newly.

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