Why Reportl: Transforming corporate reporting
Corporate reporting is undergoing a major transformation. As digital-first approaches become the norm, companies are moving away from traditional print formats and embracing new ways to deliver accessible, compliant, and engaging reports.
Author: Louise Coen
Print reduces, while digital rises
Today, very few corporate annual reports have large print and mailing requirements. PDF functionality has led this shift for 10-15 years. But, while the PDF remains important in reporting, today’s audiences also expect companies to provide online content that is easy to navigate, mobile-friendly and accessible to all users. PDF-led reporting limited capability in digitisation.
Digital reporting regulation is now accelerating this shift. Mandatory digital reporting requirements, such as iXBRL, are driving companies to reconsider how they produce and distribute their reports.
iXBRL is a web format.. It’s intended to make reports machine-readable, transparent, and accessible to everyone. However, owing to software limitations, many companies publish mandatory digital reports that are not fully functional or user-friendly online.
Regulators have highlighted the need for significant improvement. Software advances are now helping to enable this, offering companies the opportunity to transform their reporting.
Introducing Reportl: A new era of digital reporting
Reportl is a purpose-built platform designed to enable companies to deliver beautiful, interactive, and compliant corporate and sustainability reporting — all from one system.
Whether publishing to PDF, online, print, or iXBRL, Reportl streamlines the process with a powerful suite of features that offer benefits for companies and their stakeholders.
Why choose Reportl?
More efficient processes
- Manage content in one place with single-source publishing
- Sign off once, then publish to all formats effortlessly
- Edit remotely, with no special software required
- Automate hyperlinks, contents, and page references
- Generate iXBRL seamlessly within the platform — no separate process needed
- Sync financial data directly from spreadsheets or finance systems
- Easily link key sections of your report using intuitive parent/child relationships
More engaging for stakeholders
- Deliver reports in all required formats: PDF, online, print, and iXBRL
- Optimised for mobile and all modern devices and browsers
- Enhance reports with video, interactivity, and intuitive navigation
- Improve discoverability with Google-indexable content and SEO-friendly structure
- Built with AI-ready code and tagging for future-focused applications
- Track engagement and user behaviour with integrated analytics
- Add language translation to reach global audiences
More compliant
- Follow best-practice 'native' XHTML, as recommended by regulators
- Generate well-formed XHTML that improves iXBRL data quality
- Enables reports to meet WCAG accessibility standards
- Publish and file all formats simultaneously
- Designed in line with FRC guidelines and XBRL International recommendations
- Support digital assurance and control requirements
A smarter way to work
Reportl replaces traditional print design tools with a single, collaborative platform. Reporting teams can design, build, write, tag, and edit directly in the system — then deliver all required formats at the click of a button.
It’s a smarter, faster, and future-ready approach to reporting.
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Explore real-world examples of multi-channel, digital-first reporting and see what’s possible with Reportl.
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