# Reporting and Analytics

In today's data-driven world, understanding your organization's performance and impact is crucial for success. HelpYouSponsor's Reporting and Analytics suite provides two powerful components that work together to give you complete visibility into your organization's operations and impact.

### Activity log

The activity log serves as your organization's historical record keeper and insight generator. It enables you to know and monitor the different actions made by your donors and administrators. For example;

* Donor donations and sponsorships.
* Successful and failed donor payments.
* Donor and recipient information updates and many more.

The activity log displays a summary of recent activities on the platform.

To navigate to the **Activity Log** page, click the account dropdown via the top bar to reveal the option for the activity log.

<figure><img src="/files/W81RZRNoEHaUcV8XdYLV" alt=""><figcaption><p>Account dropdown options<br></p></figcaption></figure>

Once the "**Activity Log**" option is clicked, this action will redirect you to the activity log page, as shown below.

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The Activity Log page consists of various activities that are grouped by date. Each activity is logged with specific information and the time at which it happened. Each particular activity has a unique format for the message, and the most important information is always highlighted. For example, if a message is sent from a particular donor, the message will be displayed in the logs with the ability to navigate to that specific donor.\
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The logs can be filtered for ease of navigation, especially when they are numerous and difficult to sift through. They are organized into categories corresponding to the types of actions triggered. For instance, if one wishes to filter by the action "Added Sponsorships," this can be done under the "Commitments" category. Filtering is accomplished by selecting the desired action within its category, as depicted below.

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Deleted recipient file requests are also recorded in the Activity Log. A deleted-file history record can show the request status, the request and completion times, the request source, the selection scope, and the file manifest for the deleted files.

<figure><img src="/files/ZTnK9XNbLEpYX3Xavy8Z" alt="Activity Log entry showing deleted file history"><figcaption><p>Deleted-file history in the Activity Log</p></figcaption></figure>

To learn more about managing recipient files, see [File Management and Deleted-file History](/guides/core-features/recipient-management/file-management-and-deleted-file-history.md).

### Analytics

While reporting tells you what happened, analytics what might happen next. Our analytics platform provides data visualization tools

The analytics suite acts as your organization's strategic advisor, turning complex data into actionable insights that drive growth and impact.

HelpYouSponsor gives you a graphical representation of the transactions in your organization for the latest three years.

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HelpYouSponsor give you a graphical representation of the commitments or sponsorships you get in your organization for the latest three years.

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These graphs can be found on the dashboard. Click on **"Dashboard"** on the main menu to be redirected there.

The donations page found at **"Donations"** under "**CRM**" on the main menu also gives a graphical representation of the donations based on the selected time period.

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It also provides a graph showing the donations received by every program in a specific time period

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