What is reporting software?

Financial reporting software helps businesses understand their numbers on a deep level, providing detailed insights that help you make more informed decisions.

When integrated with Xero, reporting apps give businesses like yours the capability to drill down into every area of your business to budget with certainty, track benchmarking performance and forecast your future cash flow.

What are the benefits of reporting software?

• Up-to-date financial information at a glance: Access detailed insights as they happen and find out precise information exactly when you need it. Don’t rely on old or outdated information as you make important decisions for your business and utilise the most up-to-date financial reports.  

• Improved financial management: Get the full picture of your finances, including your debt, expenses, assets, liabilities. Easily track budgeting, growth and other KPIs to understand your business’s performance and make informed decisions on your next move.

• Visual benchmarking at any size: Know how your franchises, locations and clients are performing against company benchmarks with consolidated benchmarking 

• Automatically generated reports: Gain back the hours you used to spend putting together financial reports manually and access automatically synced, insights generated instantly for you. Quickly understand your business’s financial position while avoiding the risk of human error that comes with manual reports so you can make decisions with confidence.

What are the typical features of reporting software?

• Data syncing: Ensure all your financial data is up to date with regular data syncing between your reporting app and your Xero account. Easily share reports and predictions with stakeholders with confidence in your numbers being current.

• Multi-entity consolidation: Bringing together financial data from all corners of your business. Reporting software allows you to create consolidated reports from multiple entities, multiple currencies and inter-company transactions, so you can deliver the more with less work.

• Powerful forecasting: Get a clear idea of what the future holds with forecasting reports based on up-to-date and historical data. Predict upcoming trends, spot cash shortages and identify areas for profit growth,  so you can be prepared for anything.

• Custom reporting: Create customisable, beautiful reports that are based on the numbers that are important to your business. Easily and automatically share reports with the people who matter and standardise your reporting capabilities.

How reporting apps work with Xero

Integrating your reporting app with Xero centralises your financials and cash flow in one visual platform - giving you the complete picture over your current financial position and slashing time spent building reports. 

Stop hunting down data from multiple sources and creating custom reports manually. Connecting your reporting software to Xero can make it easier to:

• Visualise data in multiple formats, from graphs to dashboards and securely share them with key stakeholders

• Set up custom reports based on the financial data in your Xero account and access up-to-date figures with automated syncs between platforms

• Consolidate multiple financial streams to see your actual versus budgeted numbers in seconds

Find your fit

Every reporting apps’ integration with Xero can be different. To learn more, browse through the reporting apps in this category. Click on an app to find detailed information on how it works and integrates with your Xero account, and ratings and reviews by other Xero users. Want to try an app? You can then get started directly from the app listing page in just a few clicks.