How do I build a custom report in Campfire?

Type /campfire-custom-report in Ember chat and describe the report you want. Ember builds it in Campfire's Custom Reports and gives you a link to open it.

What kinds of financial reports can Ember build?

Ember can build transaction reports, income statements, and balance sheets from a plain-language description. Ember checks its own numbers before it saves the report.

Can I change a custom report after Ember builds it?

Yes. Ask a follow-up in the same chat, such as "group it by vendor" or "break it out by month," and Ember keeps building on the same custom report in Campfire. Or come back to a report later and ask Ember to change something.

Who can use custom reports in Ember, and do permissions apply?

All Campfire users can build custom reports with Ember. Reports Ember builds follow your existing report permissions in Campfire.

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Describe a report. Ember builds it.

Emma Roos

Product Marketing • November 04, 2026

Finance Accounting General

Today we're releasing a faster way to build a custom report in Campfire: describe the report you want, and Ember builds it.

Type /campfire-custom-report in Ember chat and say what you need. Ember creates the report directly in Custom Reports, saved and ready to open, instead of handing back an export or a table inside the chat. Then ask for changes the way you would ask a colleague, and Ember keeps building on the same report.

This is a heavily requested feature, and it is live now.

How it works

Type the command. Enter /campfire-custom-report in Ember chat. The command menu describes it as building the report you describe in Custom Reports and giving you a link to open it.
Describe the report. Write what you need in plain language. In our demo, the request is total spend by vendor across operating expenses and cost of goods sold, from January 1 to September 30, largest first.
Open it. Ember builds the report in Custom Reports and returns a link. The report opens with its date range, entity, and filters set, ready to adjust, download, or save.

An application interface with a search bar showing a dropdown list of commands, including '/campfire-custom-report'

The result is a real report in Custom Reports, the same place you build and manage reports by hand.

What Ember can build

Ember builds three kinds of reports from a description:

Transaction reports
Income statements
Balance sheets

Before it saves a report, Ember checks its own numbers. You get a report that has already been through a check, and the full report is open in front of you to review.

Keep building on the same report

The first report is a starting point. Ask a follow-up in the same chat and Ember updates the report you already have, instead of starting over.

In the demo, the follow-up is "can you make it break out by month?" Ember updates the report, and it reopens with payees down the side and January through September across the top, with Pivot on. Other follow-ups work the same way, such as "group it by vendor."

A financial reporting interface with vendor spend details, a chat asking to break out by month, and a generated "YTD 2020 Vendor Spend" report.

Why this changes custom reporting

Building a custom report has usually been a small project. Pull the data, rebuild it in a spreadsheet, check the numbers, then start over when someone asks for it by month.

With Ember, the request and the report are the same step. You describe what you need, and the report exists in Campfire with its numbers checked.

If your team still builds reports by hand, most of that work is assembling the report, not deciding what it should say. Ember takes over the assembling.

A table showing a YTD 2026 Vendor Spend report with monthly spending for various payees from January to September, including totals.

Get started

/campfire-custom-report is live in Ember now. Open Ember chat, type the command, and describe the first report you would normally build by hand. Ember saves it in Custom Reports under Reporting.