diff --git a/doc/source/user_guide/ProgressReporter.ipynb b/doc/source/user_guide/ProgressReporter.ipynb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f399459f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/source/user_guide/ProgressReporter.ipynb
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+{
+ "cells": [
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "# Progress reporting for long running tasks"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 1,
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "from oda_api.api import ProgressReporter\n",
+    "import time"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "## Initialise ProgressReporter"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 2,
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "pr = ProgressReporter()"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "## Split your task into subtasks to enable progress report\n",
+    "use ProgressReporter.report_progress method to send progress reports"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 3,
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "n_steps = 5\n",
+    "for step in range(n_steps):\n",
+    "    stage = f\"simulation stage {step}\"\n",
+    "    progress = 100 * step // n_steps\n",
+    "    n_substeps = 10\n",
+    "    \n",
+    "    # optionally define subtasks\n",
+    "    for substep in range(n_substeps):\n",
+    "        substage = f\"subtask {substep}\"\n",
+    "        subtask_progress = 100 * substep // n_substeps\n",
+    "\n",
+    "        time.sleep(0.001) # replace this by actual calculation\n",
+    "\n",
+    "        # report progress, optionally adding extra message\n",
+    "        message='some message'\n",
+    "        \n",
+    "        pr.report_progress(stage=stage, progress=progress, substage=substage, subprogress=subtask_progress, message=message)"
+   ]
+  }
+ ],
+ "metadata": {
+  "kernel_info": {
+   "name": "python2"
+  },
+  "kernelspec": {
+   "display_name": "Python 3 (ipykernel)",
+   "language": "python",
+   "name": "python3"
+  },
+  "language_info": {
+   "codemirror_mode": {
+    "name": "ipython",
+    "version": 3
+   },
+   "file_extension": ".py",
+   "mimetype": "text/x-python",
+   "name": "python",
+   "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
+   "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
+   "version": "3.9.18"
+  },
+  "nteract": {
+   "version": "0.15.0"
+  }
+ },
+ "nbformat": 4,
+ "nbformat_minor": 4
+}
diff --git a/doc/source/user_guide/tutorial_main.rst b/doc/source/user_guide/tutorial_main.rst
index 514b5dbd..841de97f 100644
--- a/doc/source/user_guide/tutorial_main.rst
+++ b/doc/source/user_guide/tutorial_main.rst
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ The following tutorial covers a large fraction of the code features. The example
 
    Upload a product to the Product Gallery <UploadToGallery.ipynb>
 
+   Progress reporting for long running tasks <ProgressReporter.ipynb>
+
    Examples of workflows <https://github.com/cdcihub/oda_api_benchmark>