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  1. There are a number of Report Templates available in the Client Reports which once adapted would be good to copy either from one client to another or better still from a Client to the Practice Reports, making them available for all clients and they could then be included in Monthly Management Reports.

    Currently you can only copy reports within a client or within the Practice Reports and the facility is not available to copy across from one to another

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    Back with an update for, everyone 😊We have now enabled the ability to add client-specific custom reports to Adviser packs!

    As mentioned in my last update we don't have direct plans for enabling the ability to copy reports from client to client or client to practice report templates.

    While this update doesn't completely accomplish what's been directly asked in this idea, we know this is a key feature that'll be highly beneficial to some in this idea in creating more comprehensive reports. Thanks for sharing with us all, here.

  2. For the new format of the Profit and loss report, only show the tracking categories that actually have a balance. Therefore do not show with nil balance.
    Currently have to adjust the report to remove the relevant columns which is time & $.

    The old version did this automatically!

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    Thanks for your feedback on this idea, community. We appreciate you sharing how important consistent Profit & Loss formatting is for your workflows.

    As noted by some, currently you can export the report to Excel in order to make adjustments outside Xero as needed.

    To confirm, currently, if a tracking option doesn't have transactions in the period, there won't be a column for that option and there isn’t a way to show it on the report.

    Being open, we don’t have any plans for changing the current behaviour and capabilities of tracking columns within the Profit & Loss report. We value your feedback and will keep this in mind as we evaluate future reporting enhancements.

    That said, there are a few comments within the thread that reference the ability to show accounts that have a nil balance - Earlier this year we released an option within multiple reports to enable…

  3. Although you can save a custom Account Transactions report as the new default report, Xero still displays the original default Account Transactions columns if you drill down to account activity from Balance Sheet or Income Statement.
    This currently requires re-adjusting the column settings every time.

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    Thanks for signalling your interest and sharing with us through this idea, team.

    We understand why you'd like a setting for defaults when you drill down through the Account Transactions report. This is something our reporting product team have taken a closer look at, however the solution isn't a simple change and we want to be upfront that at this stage we don't have any plans for. We will share if there are any updates here.

  4. We need to be able to create a report that lists inventory item sales and includes the customer name AND other customer contact information such as email address or phone number.

    There have been occasions where I've needed to contact a large group of customers that have purchased a product from me due to a misprint in a book or an update to a title. At present, the only way I can do this is to export my inventory report and add the contacts manually. Xero Support Specialist - Daniel has confirmed this.

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    Hi team, rounding back to the idea here we want to be open that this isn't a report that we have any plans for developing at this time.

    That said, there is a feature in Xero today that may help you achieve what you're in need of - Smart Lists

    With smart lists you can set criteria for items that customers have or haven't purchased from you within a period of time. You can either have this compare across all items or run smart lists for specific items. Search results can then be exported from Xero if you'd like to do more with them. Thanks

  5. Please add ability to filter inventory reports by tracking codes, so you can see quality purchased and sold by tracking code.

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  6. Modify the Budget Manager so that it accepts 2 decimal places and does not round to the nearest full dollar.

    Rounding all figures means that the Net Profit amount is incorrect which means the budgets are incorrect.

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    Hi everyone, we appreciate you continuing to highlight the impact of rounding on budget accuracy. We want to be upfront that while we've released new Analytics Budgets (currently in early acces), decimal precision isn’t part of this experience right now. This may be something we consider at a later stage but isn't in our short term plans.

    If this position changes we will share an update.

  7. New General Ledger - It would be good if you can have the option to have the code number first before the account name

    This will make looking for items easier

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    Hi everyone, while we appreciate feedback we've received in this idea I want to be open that we don't have any plans for changing the ordering of columns within the General Ledger Summary report in the near term.

    In the General Ledger Details report you'll find you can reorder columns, and can summarise by if you'd prefer a more compact view. It's also possible to re-order in both reports by clicking on the column header of the run report.

  8. Very simply, short term cashflow does not include a range of items the biggest and most important of which is payroll. I think if you are selling this feature you should be very wary of the need for a disclaimer if the feature fails to be accurate, and decisions could be made on false information if for example the biggest expense item being wages is not included.

    Granted it should be something people take great care when making financial decisions and should note the issue, many don't have great financial literacy which is part of why xero was created in…

    18 votes

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    Hi team, while we appreciate the interest in a viewing payroll as part of short term cashflows, with newer Xero analytics and the Cashflow manager, our focus is on developing this feature to encapsulate more of our customers needs and we don't have any plans of developing this into Short term cashflows.

    Right now, Cashflow manager includes historical payroll payments, but doesn't yet support upcoming payroll runs in projections.

    We have an existing request around this, that you may be interested in supporting so we can get a wider view of interest. Thanks

  9. For large farms/orchards or multiple businesses in the group, needing a P & L each for each Farm and Orchard. Then a combined statement P & L bringing all the totals together with the group overhead expenses. Currently have to do separate custom reports in Xero then paste in, would be good to have it all formated in one spot not doing multiple reports and copying and pasting. Currently using another accounting software provider to do the financials and only using Xero to collect the date, would be good to have it all in one spot

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    Hi Tracey, appreciate it's been sometime since you initially raised your idea here. Not getting any community support this will soon be removed from the forums. However, taking a read through it may be worth looking into Tracking to see if this feature could be useful to track expenses for each orchard/farm. The P&L could then be set up to provide columns of the expenses and revenue for each orchard comparably. Thanks

  10. Additional report: Supplier report to include e-mail addresses, supplier address, bank details, terms,

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    Hi everyone, not seeing a lot of interest in this idea overtime and with no plans in the roadmap we will update this idea to Not in pipeline.

    While we appreciate why users would like a report containing all these details, this isn't something we have plans to develop.

    As previously suggested it's possible to export your list of suppliers from contacts that includes email and bank details.

    In relation to spend within a period, you could run the Payable Invoice Details report which can be grouped by Contact and run for a period to view the items purchased and the accounts these were coded to.

    It may also be worth noting that Email can be included as a column when running the Aged Payables Detail or Summary reports.

  11. Enable the Payable Invoice Detail report to total the invoices for each contact. At present the report totals the GST component of each contact's invoices, which I find not at all useful. It would be possible to export the report to Excel, and calculate the totals in that format, but this would be time-consuming.

    I use the payable invoice detail report to get approvals for payment. It would be useful for the person doing the approving to see how much each contact's invoices add up to.

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    Hi everyone, thanks for the extra feedback since our last update and apologies it's taken some time for us to return and update here.

    The screenshot provided helps to highlight the gap.

    Right now with the Payable Invoice Details report you can group by contact and use the Gross column for the tax-inclusive invoice total, alternatively you can use the Net column for tax-exclusive invoice total.

    Where a contact has foreign-currency bills, you will only see totals in the Gross and Net (base currency) columns; the base amount uses the exchange rate recorded on the bill.

    We want to be upfront that we don't have any plans at this stage to change the behaviour of the totals for columns within this report, but hope that better understanding of how this works helps when running the report.

  12. Ability to show attached documents in Reporting.

    Purpose: To provide clients to see the list of transactions which also show the attachment for each transaction.

    301 votes

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    Hey everyone, thanks for your feedback on having the ability to run a File Attachment report in Xero.

    We know it's a bit of a manual process right now, but to confirm there are currently some places within Xero that'll help provide a view of the files attached to transactions, such as the account transactions page in the bank reconciliation screen, or the list pages like on Invoices or Bills.

    Though we really appreciate you highlighting how this feature would be useful to you, we want to be transparent that we don't have any plans for building a report of this nature right now.

    Though the idea has been updated to Not in pipeline it will remain open for votes. If there are any changes that change this state we'll make sure to share with you all, here. 

  13. To show all expenses in the profit and loss report.

    Purpose: To make it easier for a user to see all the expenses in the report rather than having to individually open each expense

    105 votes

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    Hi everyone, thanks for sharing how a detailed Profit and Loss report could support your workflow.

    Atm, the Account Transactions report can be run grouped and filtered by Account, which could then be exported to Excel for further sorting and analysis. While we appreciate it takes a few steps, it can give you the transaction-level detail you’re after.

    Alternatively, clicking on any figure in the Profit and Loss report will take you directly to the corresponding Account Transactions report, showing the individual transactions that make up that total.

    Our product team has moved this idea to Not in pipeline, meaning it isn't on the foreseeable roadmap. However, the idea will remain open for votes so we can continue to monitor community interest as we plan for the future.

  14. Report that shows the total sales made by each sales person in an organisation

    Purpose: Ease of being able to compare Sales reps stats across the organisation and/or overtime

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    Hi team, not getting a lot of traction overtime we will soon remove this idea from the platform.

    As mentioned in our last update while we don't have a direct feature for reporting by sales person, there is a means to use one of your tracking categories to monitor and report by sales people in your organisation.

    • Create a tracking category called something like 'Sales Rep', and create category options within the category for each of your sales staff.
    • When a sales invoice or quote is created, you can include the staff member's name in the staff member (Tracking) field on the invoice/quote.
    • You can then use the Tracking reports to see the sales that relate to each 'Sales Rep' and calculate commission manually outside of Xero.

    Alternatively, we'd recommend exploring our Xero app store to find a solution that can offer this and more functionality to track and report…

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