# How to create custom reports?

With **[custom reports](https://www.getresponse.com/help/custom-reports.html)** you can get automatically generated recurring or one-time reports that include fields of your choice.

Custom reports are available in Marketer, Creator, and MAX accounts.

If you are a MAX customer, please [find the relevant instruction here](https://www.getresponse.com/help/how-to-create-custom-reports-in-max-accounts.html).

Creating custom reports
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To create a custom report:

1.  Go to [**Reports**](https://app.getresponse.com/statistics).
2.  Click **[Custom reports](https://app.getresponse.com/statistics/custom-reports/) > Create report**.
3.  Enter **Report name** (3-70 characters long).
4.  In the **Report content** section select report type. You have nine types to choose from:
    
    *   **Message stats report** – provides information about all sent messages in a selected time range. It may contain various pieces of information about messages, including opens, clicks, unsubscribes, bounces, and many more.
    
    *   **Unsubscribes report** – provides information about contacts who unsubscribed from your list. It may contain their emails, list name, name of the message they used the unsubscribe link in, unsubscribe reason, and more.
    *   **Subscriber activity report** – provides information about contacts activity in the messages: message openings, link clicks, social media link clicks, or unsubscribes from the link in the message.
    *   **Bounce report** – provides information about bounced contacts.
    *   **User activity report** – provides summary information about users for the account owner.
    *   **Subscriptions and email performance by list** – provides a summary of all of your lists. The report will contain information for each list about total subscribers, removed subscribers, total open rates, and more.
    *   **Overall email performance by domain** – provides information about sending domains, how many messages were sent from specific domains, how many clicks and opens messages sent from them had, and more.
    *   **Webinar attendance report** – provides information about the participants of your webinar like their email, contact name, time they connected to the webinar, and more.
    *   **Message clicks report** – provides information about specific messages, their name, total clicks, what types of messages they were, send date, and more.
    *   **Unconfirmed contacts stats report** – provides information about unconfirmed contacts, their number, email address, and the name of a list to which they will be assigned when they click on the confirmation link.  
        
5.  After selecting report type, click **Select fields for report**, then select the fields you would like to see in the report, and click **Save settings**.  
      
    ![custom reports fields](https://us-wd.gr-cdn.com/help/sites/9/2023/09/0749/cr2-2.png)  
      
    
6.  In **Schedule details** section choose the frequency of report generation. You have two options to choose from:
    *   **One time** – this report will be generated only once. You need to specify its **Date range** (up to 31 days)  
          
        ![custom reports schedule](https://us-wd.gr-cdn.com/help/sites/9/2023/09/0753/cr3-1.png)  
          
        
    *   **Recurring** – report will be generated as often as you select under **Frequency**. Apart from frequency, you need to specify the report sending time.  
          
        ![custom reports frequency](https://us-wd.gr-cdn.com/help/sites/9/2023/09/0746/cr4.png)  
          
        
7.  You can enable email notifications so we can let you know when the custom report is prepared.  
      
    ![custom reports email notification](https://us-wd.gr-cdn.com/help/sites/9/2023/09/0746/cr5.png)  
      
    
8.  Click **Generate**.

Managing custom reports
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To download a custom report:

1.  Go to [**Reports**](https://app.getresponse.com/statistics).
2.  Click **[Custom reports](https://app.getresponse.com/statistics/custom-reports/)**.
3.  Under **Number of files** column you will see a number next to report you interested in. When you click on the small down arrow beside it, you will be see all custom reports generated. You can click **Download** beside each one to get it. Reports expire on the date and time mentioned in **Expires on** (after 7 days).  
      
    ![dowlnload custom report](https://us-wd.gr-cdn.com/help/sites/9/2023/08/1335/cr7-1.png)

To edit, reuse or delete a custom report:

1.  Go to [**Reports**](https://app.getresponse.com/statistics).
2.  Click **[Custom reports](https://app.getresponse.com/statistics/custom-reports/)**.
3.  Hover over the action button beside the report and click **Edit** (for reccuring report) or **Reuse** (for one time report). You can also click **Delete** if you want to remove it completely.  
      
    ![edit reuse or delete custom report](https://us-wd.gr-cdn.com/help/sites/9/2023/09/0900/cr8.png)

Sharing custom reports
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You can now make a downloadable link of your custom report to share it. To do so:

1.  Go to **Tools > Reports > [Custom reports](https://app.getresponse.com/statistics/custom-reports/)**.
2.  Create your custom report.
3.  In the **Number of files** column click on the small arrow to show all of your generated reports.
4.  Next to your report hover over the 3 vertical dots and click the **Generate download link**.  
      
    ![](https://us-wd.gr-cdn.com/help/sites/9/2024/04/1814/CleanShot-2024-04-11-at-19.52.10-2x.png)  
    
5.  A pop-up to generate a link of your report will appear. Optionally, you can also protect it with a password.  
      
    ![](https://us-wd.gr-cdn.com/help/sites/9/2024/04/1816/CleanShot-2024-04-11-at-19.56.54-2x.png)  
    
6.  After the link to download your report is generated, you can click **Copy** next to it to share it with others. If you create a password for it, you will be able to copy it as well.  
      
    ![](https://us-wd.gr-cdn.com/help/sites/9/2024/04/1819/CleanShot-2024-04-11-at-20.02.12-2x.png)  
    
7.  Additionally, you can click on the **Email link** button in the pop-up window to send this report via email to any or all from-field addresses added to your GetResponse account. Simply choose who should receive this report, click **Apply**, and then **Send**.  
      
    ![](https://us-wd.gr-cdn.com/help/sites/9/2024/04/1833/CleanShot-2024-04-11-at-20.31.31-2x.png)