Portable financial records
CSV export for event finance records
Records you cannot get out are records you do not really own.
How directors handle this today
Two situations expose whether a tool will let go of your data. The first is routine: an accountant asks for the year in a format they can work with, and a screenshot or a PDF is not it. The second is structural: at some point you may want to move, and a product that makes leaving difficult has made a decision on your behalf.
Spreadsheets, for all their faults, never have this problem — which is one reason directors are reluctant to leave them. Any tool asking someone to give up a spreadsheet has to be at least as open with the data as the spreadsheet was.
How it works in Sport Margin
Export is a normal operation, not a retention lever.
Spreadsheet-friendly files, generated from maintained records
Generate spreadsheet-friendly files directly from the records already maintained in the event finance workspace. Both summaries and detailed CSV files are available, so the level of granularity matches what the recipient actually asked for.
A full JSON backup that can be restored
Beyond CSV, a complete JSON backup can be produced — and the import and export workspace can restore it. This is a genuine backup rather than an archive: the data can come back in, not just go out.
What exports
Records from tournament accounting, expense tracking and annual reports all export, so the event results, the cost structure behind them and the annual position can be handed over together rather than piecemeal.
What it produces at the end of the year
The year-end handover is a file, not a login. Your accountant gets CSVs they can open, filter and reconcile in the tool they already use, and you keep a full JSON backup of your own records independent of any subscription.
Worked example
Illustrative figures from a sample event. Not a customer result.
The sample event exports as a complete set: the $22,587.00 revenue line, the $2,348.78 facility share, the $1,075.00 referee compensation, the $5,189.22 of other operating costs, the 98 business kilometres, and the $13,974.00 result — with the detail behind each. Nothing is summarised away on the way out.
What this does not do
Sport Margin does not push records directly into another accounting package. The export is a file — CSV for spreadsheet work, JSON for a full backup — which you or your accountant import wherever it needs to go. That is less convenient than a direct integration and considerably more portable: a file works with every tool, including the one you have not chosen yet.
It also does not summarise the detail away on export. What comes out is what is held, at the granularity you asked for.
Related event finance features
Export records from tournament accounting, expense tracking, and annual reports.