But that sounds a bit too hard does it not? I suspect from the volume of transactions you are looking for a solution which is out of the box and will we all know that never actually happens just work without a whole bunch of dedicated IT time.

I would love to say use powerbi because i genuinely like using it and reccomending it, but in this case i dont see that its a good solution for you at the moment. If you were able to wait 24 months it would be virtually guaranteed to be an out of the box fit. Get data the excel files and Xero data,.

Establish a relationship with power BI desktop using chart of account numbers or items codes. Once the relationship is established you can develop the variance reports. In service set refresh as often as you like. I normally refresh data 4 times a day. Xero has a limitation of API’s per day. Power Bi is all about automated. Once the report is created, it is automated.

For example I spent a couple hours creating a sales dashboard for a reasonble size conference. Slice up the data any way you like as long as you have the data in Xero. The 6 report users get a refreshed set of conference analytics 4 times a day. There is no need to extract all data to excel. You may need to create a few tables in excel because the data is not available in Xero.

Tables I normally create are budgets, forecast, calendar table. Desktop is where you mash the data and can connect to many data sources. Power BI service has limited capabilities of mashing data and is a great tool to share the dashboards.

This is all great stuff and i agree that with the additional drivers it can all be made nicely in desktop, but the CData drivers for Xero are an additional cost and an additional addon to manage. I guess my point is for jllau84 purposes, this is not an out of the box solution.

Maybe i am too much a fan of keeping things as simple as possible? Could I please ask you to refrain from making any statements about our product www. So, just for the record:. Acterys creates a relational data model optimized for analytics purposes star schema, time dimension handling, etc. The update process from Xero can be triggered by the user at any time with one click or you can setup a process that does this automatically.

This means that the user is not limited by API call limits when querying the data which is an issue as soon as you have multiple users, the need to include historic data and larger organizations with a higher number of transactions.

They also don’t have to go through a lot of work and have technical experience to modify raw API tables into a useful data model. The Acterys Excel Add-in here again offers extensive planning, writeback and data modelling options. I have already stated the reasons for our approach before so just briefly: a direct API approach is unlikely to support multiple entities. You can view data for each of your clients on their own dashboard within a single copy of Power BI.

However, you can’t combine multiple Xero clients on one dashboard. You are on the wrong page. I have connected to many different databases at one time so please stop. Moving forward, I will not be replying to your message because I feel your comments or advice are of no value to me. Your criticism is of annoyance and if you choose to continue I will report you for inappropriate content. I guess the best thing to do is get a annual cost for each type of connector from:.

Power BI desktop can connect to Xero directly however you need a couple add ons. I provide a service to business, to connect Power BI desktop to Xero and develop bespoke business insights. If interested send me an e-mail elizabeth analyticsrealtime. There is only an app which only supports one entity and it can’t be edited in Power Desktop. You have limited editing options on the Power BI service but for example can’t add all the other sources to the report that you normally have in the Desktop.

I disagree with you. Reports that take days to prepare, I have automated, reducing business cost. The three issues you have implied are not relevant for SME’s.

I would agree for corporations but not small business such as business’s that use Xero. I know this because I have not encountered the 3 issues you have implied. I have created bespoke dashboards in Power BI desktop without having any issues with the allowed API’s calls per day limitations. Power BI Desktop is built to gather data from many different sources, mash up the data using the Power BI desktop tools to create visual business insights.

The Desktop product is amazing once you understand the basics. More comprehensive understanding of the Xero Accounting Software can be found here. It aims to provide users with interactive visualizations and advance Business Intelligence capabilities through a simple interface, thereby allowing them to create their own Dashboards and Reports.

It can be seen as a collection of Applications, Software Services, and Connectors that work together to turn numerous Data Sources into visually immersive, coherent, and interactive insights.

It lets you connect to all your data sources, visualize the data to derive insights, and share them with the decision-makers at your organization. Microsoft offers three platforms in its Microsoft Power BI suite which are as follows:.

As businesses grow, the amount of financial data they handle also increases. Most businesses make use of existing platforms like Xero to manage their financial data instead of maintaining a record of it manually.

Businesses rely on such tools primarily due to their ease of use and their ability to automate various tasks that have to be performed regularly. Although tools like Xero can be used to perform a simple analysis using Level-One Performance Metrics, it is not possible to perform an in-depth analysis or create custom financial reports.

Hence, businesses feel the need to set up Xero Power BI Integration to perform a comprehensive analysis of their data and derive meaningful insights. This method involves installing the Xero application in Microsoft Power BI and then importing the required data. Hevo provides a hassle-free solution and helps you directly transfer data from Xero to Microsoft Power BI and numerous other BI tools without any intervention in an effortless manner.

Hevo is fully managed and completely automates the process of not only loading data from your desired source but also enriching the data and transforming it into an analysis-ready form without having to write a single line of code. In this method, users first have to install the Xero application in Microsoft Power BI and then import all the data.

All forum topics Previous Topic Next Topic. Anonymous Not applicable. TIA, Sane Solved! Message 1 of 5. Message 4 of 5. Hi Sane, There are three ways; 1 log into powerbi. Message 5 of 5. Message 3 of 5. Hi Anonymous , By my tests and research, this bolg has announced that the Xero contact pack is deprecated, so we cannot find it in power bi service any more.

You may try with web connector in power bi desktop if you have the api of xero. Message 2 of 5. Post Reply. Helpful resources.

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Steps to Connect Xero to Power BI Desktop · 1. Sign up and start a free Acterys trial with an expert at your side here: Acterys App Trial. adding Xero company. Method 1: Manual Xero Power BI Integration · Step 1: Installing Xero App in Microsoft Power BI · Step 2: Connecting to a Xero Account · Step 3. How To Connect Xero with Power BI Using Acterys Click on “Add Model” to link your Xero company file with ACTERYS. This process will create cloud-based.

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If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly. View solution in original post. Hi KateC shaunwalker Anonymous. Kelly also shares Power BI Community updates. Power BI. Turn on suggestions. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. Showing results for. In regards to your credentials, are you having trouble signing into Power BI or connecting to Xero?

Hi Craig, thanks for you reply. No, no data yet for xero, although I have a mailchimp dataset that is showing now. It was just when I looked at the data source settings for the xero dataset it said the credentials were invalid.

How did you get on? Mathew Hi Matthew. How are you getting on now? The Power Bi dashboard pulls through up to 1 year of data and the time taken to do so is therefore dependant on the amount of data in Xero.

While the initial sign up process is fast, for larger files it could take up to several minutes to happen. Hi Gary. Great suggestion. Great integration but no data coming through. Is it just a matter of waiting or is there something l should do or check. Hope you can help — Stuart. Please ignore this as the dataset is now populated.

There must have been a lot of info to pull through. Our other online datasets mailchimp and Google Analytics seem to update ok. Hi Michael. Thanks for posting. In the meantime, if you do experience refresh issues, you can manually refresh the data. Hi Marilyn. Yes, you can connect to multiple Xero files using the one login. From here you just connect to a different Xero file than you have previously. From here you follow the usual connection steps, select the Xero file etc.

Hi Eric. Sorry about the delay. I was surprised not to find an option to report by tracking category on the trial balance table. Am I missing something? Hi Martin, yes you do have the ability to report by tracking category. Hi Martin, Got ya. A great suggestion to add as a feature requests though. Manual Refresh seems to be working fine but not intuitive. In the Schedule Refresh section, i have put the credentials and it seems to authenticate fine.

However the scheduled refresh keeps on failing:. Something went wrong. There was an error when processing the data in the dataset. Please try again later or contact support. If you contact support, please provide these details. As mentioned by a number of others here, we really need to slice by Tracking categories.

That would make this very useful. Hi BB, you do have the ability to report by tracking category. You can then mix and match this field with any other you wish to report on. Hi, I finally got my data to populate only to see that there is no forward cash flow projections. Will this be added.

This is fundamental to running small business and this is why we signed up. Please let me know. Hi DK. Thanks for your feedback. PowerBI is a business analytics add-on, aimed primary at understanding the key aspects of your business. Xero is not showing up as a service for Power BI for me.

A search for Xero returns no results, and going to More Apps and searching Xero returns no results either. Was the app pulled from the store? I see QBO on there but not Xero. Hi Brett. Very strange. Try scrolling to the bottom of the page page 1 and it should be on the bottom row on the right. I have the same problem.