Reports - Show Expense Descriptions from Xero Me App in Account Transactions Report
When reviewing quarterly and annual figures from the Profit and Loss report’s account transactions, we currently have to click into each Xero Me app expense to see the description and confirm it’s coded correctly. Expenses entered via bank feeds or bills display descriptions properly in the Account Transactions report, but Xero Me submissions do not.
This inconsistency makes it difficult to quickly identify and verify transactions without drilling into each one. Competing platforms such as MYOB, QuickBooks, and HandiLedger display expense descriptions consistently, regardless of how the expense was entered.
An internal workaround suggests entering the description manually in the Reference field for Xero Me expenses, but this is not practical, it forces users to duplicate information and increases the risk of errors.
Proposed Idea:
Ensure that descriptions from Xero Me expenses appear automatically in the Account Transactions report (P&L view) and bank account view, just like other expense types. This would save time, reduce errors, and make quarterly and annual reviews far more efficient.
Daniel Mak
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Daniel Mak
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When reviewing quarterly and annual figures from the Profit and Loss report’s account transactions, we currently have to click into each Xero Me app expense to see the description and confirm it’s coded correctly. Expenses entered via bank feeds or bills display descriptions properly in the Account Transactions report, but Xero Me submissions do not.
This inconsistency makes it difficult to quickly identify and verify transactions without drilling into each one. Competing platforms such as MYOB, QuickBooks, and HandiLedger display expense descriptions consistently, regardless of how the expense was entered.
An internal workaround suggests entering the description manually in the Reference field for Xero Me expenses, but this is not practical, it forces users to duplicate information and increases the risk of errors.
Proposed Idea:
Ensure that descriptions from Xero Me expenses appear automatically in the Account Transactions report (P&L view) and bank account view, just like other expense types. This would save time, reduce errors, and make quarterly and annual reviews far more efficient.