Expenses - Set Expenses as compatible with TAPR
There are numerous discussion posts about Xero's lack of "Email to Expenses" functionality which is yet to be resolved, but there appears to be another gap in Expenses which makes producing many of the Bills/Expenses reports (including the TAPR) inaccurate.
This happens because whilst the Expenses entry screen allows "Assign to Client" using Xero Contacts lookup, the Payee themselves cannot be connected this way. This means that if an employee expenses a payment, it never appears in any "By Contact" reporting, and cannot be included in the automated TAPR.
As a small business that uses Expenses for all processing (which is practical when an owner covers most of the business's costs and then claims them back) this omission is yet another frustration with the Xero Expenses module which - by the way - we are paying extra for each month ...