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Sales summary rather than sales detail integration with Xero

started a topic almost 6 years ago

My business is having trouble generating compliance (BAS) reports in Xero, due to the sheer amount of data coming in from Dear.  Xero has provided the below feedback and suggested that our invoicing program (Dear) should consolidate the multiple lines on the invoices by account code rather than listing all the stock items.


Feedback from Xero:

From our data logs for your organisation, the number of Sales Invoices and Purchase Bills have been between 900 and a 1000 over the recent months. As the invoices in Xero increase, you'll continue to experience difficulty with the Activity Statement report, and potentially other areas of Xero as well. It could reach the point where we would be unable to export the report for you.

To accommodate these sorts of volumes, we recommend you look into using a dedicated billing system outside Xero and then sending over a summary of your daily sales. If you're interested in a system like this, we have custom integration partners who specialise in these types of solutions. Please click on the link below if you'd like to explore this option further.

Alternatively, you may like to take a look at other invoicing App Partners that send through sales summaries rather than individual invoices, to reduce the amount of line items that are recorded in Xero.


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  • In the product release update webinar I saw on Tuesday, Andrew said it is being released now and are about to receive release notes. So awesome :)

  • yes! never in one Dear feature I am checking for the updates daily except this.... as we do have synchronization issues with xero almost everyday due to the sheer number of lines of the consolidated invoices exporting to xero. I hope this update can fix this once and for all.

  • @yohan I’ve seen the release notes and webminar in the previous months promising the update was imminent but I ended up in disappointment. May I just check why it’s not launched yet ?
  • i just checked now and the update is released. perfect !

  • Hi Dear.  We too were extremely frustrated with the quantum of data dear was passing to Xero and then the negative impact it had on our xero environment. In fact we had to dump a Xero instance and start one fresh because the xero account could not cope with the quantum of data that had built up from our dear integration (mostly driven by passing each sold products sku details to XERO where only summary sales and cogs information is required).  We run 16 retail locations on our platform.  Was hoping the recent launched consolidation enhancements would deal with this entirely. However after running this for a month we have found the resultant payment consolidation logic does not support the sales consolidation.

    Whereas the sales consolidation support the dear location / xero tracking categorisation on suncing integration. Payment from Dear are only passed on a consolidated basis to XERO without retaining their location allocation as held correctly within dear.  

    This results in Xero applying some pro-rata basis the to the various payment amounts types (credit card, cash, gift card etc) across our sales locations/tracking level for the consolidation period.  This is completely unworkable for these balance sheet payment accounts as locational control is required across a business to manage risk and banking.

    We have had to roll back to non-consolidation until we can convince dear that this addition to payment consolidation is essential.

    Is anyone else experiencing the same issue?

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