Transform your data into insights with Analytics powered by Syft

Financial data should be easy to understand. Analytics powered by Syft unlocks new ways to turn your Xero data into clear, actionable insights that help you to make confident decisions.

Image of the Xero dashboard showing a business's monthly income and expenses in a bar chart, and other insights.

Understand your data better than ever before

Choose from a range of graphs and visualisations to transform your data into clear financial insights.

Interactive, customised dashboards

View trends and comparisons of how your business is tracking in one clear, tailored view.

Share key insights with your advisor and team

Collaborate on business decisions more easily with flexible export and sharing options.

Get ready for more features soon

Discover more insights with upcoming features including generative AI, reporting, and visualisation tools.

Understand your data better than ever before

Analytics powered by Syft takes your raw data and instantly transforms it into beautiful graphs and visualisations. Maybe you want to check your sales from last quarter? Or analyse your recent profitability? With no set up required, you can get a better understanding of how your business is doing.

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    Pinpoint the strengths and weaknesses of your business performance
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    Make data-backed decisions and set goals more easily
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    Add a dashboard from a template to easily track performance your way
Image of business data showing profit and loss in line graphs and bar charts

Interactive, customised dashboards

No doubt you’ve got your own priorities. Analytics powered by Syft presents your financial data however works best for you – giving you a choice of metrics, graph types, filters, and customisation options. Zoom in on a key area of your business and see information on a granular level.

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    Choose your metric such as income versus expenses or sales revenue
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    Change graph types or look at specific frequencies like monthly or quarterly
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    Tailor your dashboard view and rearrange your data and filter options
Image of a chart that shows the businesses top expenses for January.

Share key insights with your advisor and team

Export your reports with ease. Analytics powered by Syft helps small businesses to collaborate, whether it’s pinging across a graph to your business partner via WhatsApp, or emailing PDFs to your financial advisor before a meeting. That way everybody is looking at the same accurate information.

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    Export graphs to PDF or Excel, or share with others via Slack, WhatsApp, or Microsoft Teams
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    Send to your financial advisors, stakeholders, or business partners
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    Save for your own records – and use in business plans and pitches
Image of a mobile phone that shows you can receive your business’s income vs expenses charts on Whatsapp.

Get ready for more features soon

In the upcoming weeks and months, we’ll introduce more powerful features into the Analytics powered by Syft experience. Look out for cash flow forecasting tools and AI-generated insights that help you get deeper insight, so that you can better understand your business performance.

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    Plan for the future with short-term cash flow forecasting
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    Learn from AI Insights for clear, easy to understand summaries
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    This page will update when new features are released monthly or quarterly
Image of a chart that shows the cash in and our projection over a period of 30 days.

FAQs on Analytics powered by Syft

Syft Analytics is a leading global cloud-based reporting and insights platform for small businesses, accountants, and bookkeepers. Xero announced the acquisition of Syft in September 2024 and we’re currently in the early phases of introducing Analytics powered by Syft to Xero. We’re excited about all the ways our users can benefit from this addition, gaining deeper insights into their data and spotting more opportunities to improve their business finances.

Read about the Syft acquisition

Syft Analytics is a leading global cloud-based reporting and insights platform for small businesses, accountants, and bookkeepers. Xero announced the acquisition of Syft in September 2024 and we’re currently in the early phases of introducing Analytics powered by Syft to Xero. We’re excited about all the ways our users can benefit from this addition, gaining deeper insights into their data and spotting more opportunities to improve their business finances.

Read about the Syft acquisition

Currently, Analytics powered by Syft is available for early access to US organisations, and is progressively being released to AU organisations. We'll be making it available to more organisations and regions - and adding new features - over time. Watch this space!

Currently, Analytics powered by Syft is available for early access to US organisations, and is progressively being released to AU organisations. We'll be making it available to more organisations and regions - and adding new features - over time. Watch this space!

Right now we’re in the early phase of the rollout where users can visualise their financial data as graphs and in a customised dashboard view. For example, a business owner might display their profit and loss accounts over the last year as a donut graph. They can filter this data – such as by location – and toggle between graph options. Over the upcoming months, we’ll add to these features with more visualisations features, AI-generated summaries and suggestions, short term cash flow management, and more.

Right now we’re in the early phase of the rollout where users can visualise their financial data as graphs and in a customised dashboard view. For example, a business owner might display their profit and loss accounts over the last year as a donut graph. They can filter this data – such as by location – and toggle between graph options. Over the upcoming months, we’ll add to these features with more visualisations features, AI-generated summaries and suggestions, short term cash flow management, and more.

Access Analytics powered by Syft from Xero’s Reports centre in the Accounts menu, from there you’ll be taken to a new tab (so things will look slightly different to your usual Xero experience).

Access Analytics powered by Syft from Xero’s Reports centre in the Accounts menu, from there you’ll be taken to a new tab (so things will look slightly different to your usual Xero experience).

Your data will refresh automatically once every 24 hours – and you can also manually refresh whenever you need to update any information. That way you’re always working with accurate numbers.

Your data will refresh automatically once every 24 hours – and you can also manually refresh whenever you need to update any information. That way you’re always working with accurate numbers.

Start using Xero for free

Access all Xero features for 30 days, then decide which plan best suits your business.

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    Cancel any time
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