Analytics plus - Include bills with future dated payments in STCF projection
Short term cash flow projection, please can you update it to show bills with future dated payments?
Once our suppliers bills are in for the month, we often set bank payments up for them for their due date so that we don't' have to keep remembering to make payments. If we mark them up with a future payment date, they are removed from the cashflow forecast. It would make much more sense if they appeared in the cashflow on the date they have been set to pay.
Elsa Mason
shared this idea
Hi everyone, thanks for your feedback on this idea. We appreciate you explaining how important accurate cash flow forecasting is for your planning. We’ve reviewed this suggestion and we’re updating the status to Gaining Support. This means it’s now open for community support through votes and comments. Please keep voting and sharing your experiences to help demonstrate the value of this enhancement. Your input helps our product team understand how features like this could benefit users who schedule payments in advance. Thanks again for contributing and keeping the conversation going! ✨
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Anastasia Filipidis
commented
Recurring bills do not show up in the P&L which causes a lot of manual labour to set up new bills and placeholders so that they are including in the P&L. This is the same for repeating invoices.
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Joel Lozon
commented
Xero treats repeating bills as templates, not real future obligations. As a result, they don’t appear in Bills to Pay, aged payables, or short‑term cash‑flow views until the bill is actually created. This hides genuine recurring expenses and breaks basic planning questions like: “What are my projected expenses and will my cash cover them?”
The only safe workaround today is to ignore repeating bills and always keep the next instance entered as a normal bill, so it shows in reports and cash‑flow. That defeats the purpose of automation.
Please allow repeating bills to surface as projected obligations in cash‑flow tools and reports (e.g., an option to “include projected repeating bills” over the next 30/60/90 days). This keeps automation while providing the real‑world visibility businesses need for cash‑flow management. Thank you.
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Julie Sutton
commented
@helen the cashflow is no longer available in Xero only via analytics in Syft (which is an awful product - so slow its almost unusable) plus other issues which need new "ideas" raised against it.
I have had a few calls with Xero to show them some of the issues but guess they now join the back of the queue to wait 10 years to be acted on!and yes expected dates in the cashflow don't reflect back in Xero or vica versa so having to do this process twice now ....
Cashflow was another thing that worked ok in Xero that they have made an abomination of by "upgrading"
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Helen Keegan
commented
Syft and Analytics plus are diffeernt products though? Does this mean that both products will have expected payment dates (for Sales as well as bills) will be changed?
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Helen Keegan
commented
On the cash flow planning part of Syft, use the expected payment dates (both in Sales and Purchases) put in Xero rather than having to manually re-input them into the cash flow planner in Syft.
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Rosalie Kidney
commented
Some of us are organised and raise a batch for next end of month payment as soon as we know we have received all bills. Once we set it up, this, quite substantial, payment is removed from cashflow. This is actually the largest outgoing payment affecting my cashflow but it is excluded and has to be entered manually.
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Julie Sutton
commented
I too have raised this issue with Xero. Told it is "working as designed" - which in terms of a cashflow forecasting tool makes it almost redundant in many ways.
It is only when the invoice gets paid and the Xero bank balance gets updated it is then reflected in the forecast.
Absolutely
The advice I got from Xero? Add it to the product ideas (which lets face it generally means the response will be "its not on the road map" and we don't intend changing it - mind blowing that future payments are just removed from the forecast