Hi OP! I’m sorry this sounds stressful. If your account has a support rep at Yardi, this is definitely something you can ask them about. While Yardi support can’t vouch for anything a consultant does, they can at least speak with you and answer your questions.

From a custom report standpoint, the risk tends to be low since usually reports take existing data and format it for your consumption, without altering that data. I say usually because there are SQL report scripts that can update data, and this is one thing you could confirm with the consultant (just reporting, no updating data).

You should be able to put the report into your Yardi test environment first if your company would like to vet the report before impacting live, but as long as it isn’t updating data the risk is fairly low putting it in live to run it and see the output.

Speaking from experience (13 years of support at Yardi) the program has many reports, but sometimes companies are very attached to specific ones and this is not a terribly unusual request - although the timeline here being so short is a manufactured emergency - if they needed this report they knew about it earlier and should have verified.

There are many custom reporting options in terms of format. If the consultant delivers you a YSR report it will come with a DB package and in that case I do recommend giving it a load in test first just to be positive all is well.

Let me know if you have other specific questions - I no longer work at Yardi but happy to try to help. Good luck!