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Every file you can take out of your portal: invoice PDFs, the earnings CSV, the US tax files, and the read-only Owner API.
Basics
Careful: This is not tax advice. Rules differ by country. Ask your accountant.
Your accountant does not need to sign in to your portal. Everything they are likely to ask for can be downloaded as a file and sent to them. This guide lists each export and where its button is.
| What | Format | Where | For whom |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly invoice or report | Invoices, open a month, Download PDF | All owners | |
| Machine purchase documents | Invoices, Order confirmations and Earlier invoices | All owners | |
| Earnings activity | CSV | Earnings, Activity, Download CSV | All owners |
| Tax worksheet and its files | PDF and CSV | Taxes | US owners |
| Live figures for your own tools | API | Owner API | Owners who use a script or a spreadsheet |
For machine purchases, open an entry under Order confirmations, or press View invoice under Earlier invoices.
The file has three columns: the date, the type and the amount in BTC. The type is mining, renting, or a payment made to you. It opens in any spreadsheet. The file covers the period you chose, so pick All if your accountant wants the full history and let them filter by date.
US owners have more on the Taxes page: Print or save as PDF for the whole worksheet, a depreciation file under Your machines, and Payouts CSV and Worksheet CSV under the list of payouts. See US owners: the Taxes page.
If you or your accountant keep a spreadsheet or use bookkeeping software that can fetch data, the Owner API gives the same figures without downloading files by hand. It is read-only: it can show your machines, earnings, invoices and a summary, and it cannot change anything.
Step by step: Use the Owner API.
Good to know: Need a document that is not on this list, or a file in another layout? Write to hello@firsthandbitcoin.com and tell us what your accountant asked for.