Reporting - Automatic generation and emailing of reports
Automatically send email reports every month.
Purpose: Users can set up recurring reports to the dedicated person consistently at the same date.

Hey everyone, thanks for all the votes and feedback on this idea! Our product teams have definitely taken note and understand the effort involved in automatic report generation and sending.
While it's something we see as valuable in the long run, it's not currently on our development roadmap with a specific timeframe. We're still keen to hear from those of you who would find this feature helpful, so please keep the conversation and votes coming. We'll be sure to update you if our plans change.
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Jo Russell commented
Being able to Schedule custom reports to email out to various team members would save a lot of time, both in the actual sending and in the setting up of reminders in other systems such as Outlook.
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Brigitte Barrett commented
Automatic scheduling and sending reports to management teams is critical in running a business - really surprised this hasn't been developed yet..
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Grant Leishman commented
Again this just shows how much Xero cares about its users. 9 years ago this was requested
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Julie Messenger commented
I have quite a few reports that I need to run off each week and email to a recipient. If this could be automated that would be great. At this stage, I need to go into the report, run it, export to PDF and then email it. A bit of a pain and I might forget.
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Michele Grisdale commented
Each month we publish the bank reconciliation report and it appears under the Published tab. We add the last 4 digits of the account number to show which account was published. It would be great if this could populate automatically to save opening every report.
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Ryan Burns commented
Would be awesome to see this as either a feature within Xero, or report generation as an action in the Zapier integration.
Thanks!
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rowel bughao commented
If this is a 2014 feature request and Xero is still not able to do in the year 2023 then I am starting to question the skill sets of their development team, shout out to their development manager, wazzup with this feature? Very easy to develop but no one knows how to from your team?
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Justine Perry commented
I need this as well - do you know if there is any update?
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Anwar Husain commented
Automatic generation and emailing reports on a regular schedule is an important feature and Xero must work on this. I used few other accounting software and its a normal feature which I don't know why taking this much time here. I can see 2014 comments on the wall but after 10 yrs it's not yet implemented.
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William Chubb commented
This would be v useful for some time reporting requirements. I can create a custom report for the previous week for time spent on a project, but have to export and send via email separately.
It would be really nice to have this happen automatically or just on demand (I.e. send this report to customer contact).
When there are several projects on the go, this can be time consuming and prone to “problem between keyboard and chair” type mistakes with multiple downloads and duplicated/numbered download names.
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James Baird commented
As our organisation is growing ashflow becomes tight & i need stakeholders to understand where the organisation is at any point in time with frequent updates.
the more i can make this automatic the more free time for analysis & less on running reports.
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Evan Olivier commented
This is critical, automated reports need to be added please.
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Mike Cook commented
This would be an essential feature- I was really surprised that it wasn't there already.
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Neil Draper commented
oh ok thanks kyle, lets hope that it is something on the road map as it is very time consuming , and also ensuring that data is refreshed correctly when using 3rd party apps. sometimes it can be really frustrating (as good as xero is) when there are simple tasks that can make our lives so much easier and most other systems have these functions.
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Kyle Stutter commented
I’ve seen that too Neil. Sadly schedule in that article basically means a table or list (eg. Schedule of fixed assets and depreciation, schedule of shareholders, etc) rather than a timeline of when reports will be generated.
It’s about time Xero added this feature!
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Neil Draper commented
I have been frustratingly trawling through 3rd party apps that link to xero that can generate bad automate reports , when I came across this which states this is available in NZ and AUS but not Uk ?
https://central.xero.com/s/article/Use-and-customise-report-schedules-within-report-packs
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Amy Puchrik-Viens commented
Frustrating to not have this feature available. I do not look forward to telling the CRO he cannot automatically receive his Xero data reports. Lets get this on the roadmap soon Xero!!
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Judith Richardson commented
I'm really surprised when I found out this was not an option on Xero. It seems really antiquated to have to manually run and email reports that are needed on a regular basis when most CRM systems do this automatically.
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Kyle Gracey commented
It's honestly kind of embarrassing that Xero doesn't have this feature. Quickbooks has had it for YEARS.
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David Hawkyard commented
It would also be useful for exporting data via email that can be sucked into Power Bi, Data Warehouses and the like all automatically
Same with WorkFlowMax
i.e.
Xero emails report as attachement daily at 7am
Power Automate picks up the email attachement and saves to Sharepoint. Power BI Service schedule picks this data up at 8am and refreshes reports etc. which can be streamed into Microsoft Teams