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
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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