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.
Hi community, we appreciate this idea has collected a fair amount of votes and commentary. This has all been shared with, and considered by, our product team - so they have an understanding of the work that would be required for this.
We'd like to confirm that, at this stage, the automatic generation and sending of reports is not something we have plans to develop in the near term. We are still interested to get a clearer understanding of demand for this feature, and we'll continue to track this through the conversation and votes on this idea. If there's any change we will let you know!
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Alex Stock commented
This would be a brilliant feature to enable us to send reports to key individuals in the organisation without having to give access to the reports module.
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Andrew Morton commented
This is something that is needed. Various regulatory requirements would be easily helped if this was in play.
What we need is
1) The ability to generate a report on a schedule.
2) Specify a format and the parameters.
3) Specify an email address / Xero user that it goes to. Note - if this could be a different user or a user external to Xero, that would be cool. quite frankly I would pay for a "reports" user.Basically, allow a "Set this report to be emailed" option.
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Sarah Verge commented
I need to send weekly reports to 40 individual budget holders (we're a school, so each subject has a separate budget) to enable them to see how their actual expenditure is tracking against budget. It's not feasible to do this manually, so I am using an add-on, which isn't entirely satisfactory.
It's frustrating when work is done on Xero to 'improve' on existing functionality when there are still basic features - like scheduled reporting - missing.
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Daniela Depetro commented
Would like the ability to schedule the automation of reports and be emailed to staff. For example, schedule each Monday morning to have a WIP Aged Ledger report processed and emailed to staff.
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Salonee Verma commented
Of course, this is still of interest! It is a basic feature and frankly it is remarkable that Xero does not offer it.
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Brendan Lewis commented
For our US operation we use Zoho Books for Invoice generation and sync back in Xero (the standard accounting system for our group).
For my weekly US sales meeting, we use Automatic generation of reports from Zoho Books to enable sales meeting attendees with weekly results for review.
For my weekly marketing meeting, I have to manually login and generate a marketing spend report from Xero to be circulated. Same for the monthly group finance review (but for 3 companies).
The lack of automated reports in Xero costs me atleast a day a year. I wonder what its costing the entire Xero customer base?
Attached is the screen shot of the interface from Zoho Books.
Frustrated!
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Rachel Forsey commented
Automated reporting is very much needed, I was so surprised when I found out Xero didn't have it!
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Ash Rathod commented
Yes, we need this important feature on Xero as we are generating few Xero reports and emailing them manually to the relevant staff.
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Nathan Kohner commented
+1
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Growth Focus commented
This is a big Deal ❗️❗️❗️- Very Much needed - Automation - Delgation - Time saving - Regular set time set
VERY MUCH NEEDED - Please
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Joe Branca commented
Would love to have this feature.
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Lucy Butler commented
I can't believe Xero doesn't understand the need for this, surely it's a fairly simple development!!
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Omar Yamak commented
Very much needed
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Steven Arthur commented
This would be great, and very easy to setup. PLus it avoids having to navigate around permission structures for certain data.
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Brian Carpizo commented
We have this request as well, very surprised it is not in the platform already.
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Tiana Hines commented
This would be a fantastic feature, businesses I have worked for in the past have certain reports emailed to them automatically every month and it's a great way to track how your business is going.
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Sally Johns commented
This would be really useful. I'd like to schedule some regular reports to hit inboxes automatically weekly.
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Ian Curry commented
We are expanding our sales team and really need this feature to simplify and automate reporting, for payment of commission.
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Rongen Robles commented
We need this reporting feature badly. Please update us asap. Thanks.
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Guy O commented
Emailing reports on designated schedules (weekly/monthly etc is benefiical to providing relevant employees required data without the need of having User permissions.