Seamless Xero Integration | Spotlight Reporting
Top-tier reporting and forecasting for businesses and Advisors using Xero
Visually engaging in-depth analysis, reporting, forecasting, consolidation, dashboards, ESG reporting and more.
Learn why leading accounting firms and businesses are choosing Spotlight Reporting
Through automation with Spotlight and Xero, we can provide in-depth analysis to nearly every single client we look after.
Frank Druda
Managing Director, Accounting
BlueRock
Spotlight really supported us in our Advisory journey, and helped us accelerate our growth in the Advisory space and deliver the solutions our clients need.
Rachel Stewart
Senior Advisory Manager
Forvis Mazars
Scale your Advisory services
Quickly create in-depth, client-specific reports and forecasts across your entire client base.
The preferred choice of Enterprise firms
The Spotlight suite of tools are the preferred choice of the Big Four and thousands of leading accounting firms.
Depth of functionality and analytics
Five powerful products covering everything from management reporting, forecasts consolidations, even ESG reporting with Spotlight Sustain.
Ideal for Franchises, and larger SMEs
Create comprehensive visual reports, consolidations, and KPIs. Aggregate and benchmark performance across a Franchise.
Easy to use and implement
Save time and resources with a powerful feature set that streamlines even the most complex tasks.
Premium training, onboarding and support
Extensive training for accounting firms and their teams to unlock the full potential of Spotlight and maximise the success of your Advisor services.
Gain unparalleled visibility and control
Five powerful products to unlock the power of both financial and non-financial data and reveal the insights that matter the most.
Go beyond the numbers with Spotlight Reporting
Create comprehensive visual reports, consolidations, and KPIs, revealing the insights that matter the most.
Extensive chart gallery & visual graphs
Industry specific templates
Group Consolidation up to 75 entities
Highly customisable & powerful reporting
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Powerful forecasting, cash flow & budgeting
Say goodbye to error-prone spreadsheets. Easily create budgets, forecasts, and what-if analysis. Even produce consolidated forecasts for groups with ease.
Three-way Forecasting & Budgeting
Plan for best & worst case scenarios
See how unit based cost changes affect your forecast
Create consolidated forecasts for groups
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High level Dashboards for a birds eye view
Within minutes create high-level overviews of the most important business metrics on one insightful page to get an instant snapshot of the business.
Drag-and-drop dashboard creation
Financial & non-financial KPI reporting
A wide selection of displays and charts
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Aggregate and benchmark with Spotlight Multi
Aggregate and compare networks and industry verticals. Perfect for Franchises, Not-for-Profits and industry specialists.
Consolidate up to 500 entities (Spotlight Multi)
Track & benchmark performance
Easily handle multiple currencies & eliminations
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Turn your data into visually engaging ESG reports
Spotlight Sustain provides intuitive, out of the box Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) templated reporting that is highly customisable.
Extensive gallery of ESG charts
Customisable ESG report templates
Flexible white labelling
Monitor KPIs, targets & action plans
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See Xero and Spotlight in action
Why BlueRock use Spotlight Reporting for their Xero clients
Learn why BlueRock found Spotlight Reporting to be the best platform to deliver and scale their Advisory services across their client base.
Why Mazars chose Spotlight Reporting
Spotlight Reporting has really supported us in our Advisory journey. The platform enabled us to bring innovative solutions to how we are delivering Advisory services to our clients and really help us to accelerate our growth in the Advisory space.
Spotlight Reporting & Empowered By Cloud
Discover how Empowered by Cloud use Spotlight Reporting to deliver their advisory services to their Xero clients.
Outsourced CFO and Spotlight Reporting
Learn how a financial management consultancy based in Cape Town use Spotlight for their client base using Xero to deliver the insights they need to succeed.
Partner Success: The Cheesecake Shop
The executive Director needed a group consolidation tool that could benchmark and rank his shops across his entire network. Spotlight Multi was the only solution. Seamlessly importing data from Xero, Multi made reporting 'a piece of cake!'
Partner Success: BlueRock and Spotlight Reporting
Learn how Spotlight Reporting enabled the team at BlueRock to turn client data into powerful reporting that underpins their Advisory services adding value to both their client’s world.
Tracking Categories Reporting in Spotlight
Great decisions start with great insights—but it can be hard to find the signal in the noise. We’re solving this by giving you the power to freely explore the data from multiple angles with supercharged tracking categories reporting in Spotlight.
Who is Xero and Spotlight for?
Spotlight Reporting empowers Xero accounting firms, businesses, franchises and not for profits with powerful solutions to create better business outcomes
ACCOUNTING FIRMS
They helped train all our staff and provided continual support along the way.
Karly Whitehead
William Buck | Manager
FRANCHISES
Spotlight Multi really highlights which stores are above or below critical levels. We can respond scientifically in terms of what's occurring in our business in a much more timely way.
Ken Rosebury
The Cheesecake Factory | Former Executive Director
OWNER & CFOS
Visually the reports are easy to interpret for people who don’t come from a financial background.
Nouri Groom
AIF | CEO
NOT FOR PROFIT
Supported by the charts that give an outer glance views as whether they’re financial KPIs or Non Financial KPIs. The ability to customize those in the Spotlight Reporting is fabulous for us.
Kirsten Forrester
Accounting For Good | CEO
ACCOUNTING FIRMS
Our practice loves your products, it's a great tool for our customers.
Brad Harpur
Laurenson Chartered Accountants Limited
ACCOUNTING FIRMS
A powerful BI tool which helps with strategies and mid-to-long term business plans.
Vikram Jha
Empower Business Accounting Limited
Your pathway to Advisory
We’re not just software. Our Advisor Plans provide the onboarding, training and goal setting accounting firms need to make the complete journey to offering Advisory services
We see the Xero/Spotlight Reporting combination as being a key tool in adding value to our clients by presenting complex financial information in a relevant, concise and visually-appealing way. Our clients love the usability of the information. We love that we can focus on meaningful highlights and identify critical data to assist our clients to manage risks and take timely advantage of opportunities. There is no doubt Spotlight Reporting has helped us offer valuable, innovative services to our clients.
Suze Atkinson, Business Development Manager, Synectic
I am a newcomer to Spotlight Reporting and I have to say I love it!! Being a business coach rather than an accountant the budgeting and cash flow forecasting never came easily to me. Using Spotlight I had the rest of this financial year budgeted and forecast done in 30 minutes. With the addition of the Action Plan, we can now take our quarterly priorities and add them to our reports giving a more complete picture of where we and our clients are at. Great work guys!!
Dave Sewell, Management Director and Business Coach, Scaling Up
LOVE LOVE LOVE Spotlight Reporting. We have seriously used every single financial reporting software that is available but love the ease of Spotlight, it seems to be built for accountants who love the numbers and ratios, also the industry templates are great too. Our clients love the reports and we love the ease it takes to prepare them, highly recommend!
Shannon, Director of Smart Business Solutions, Xero Accounting Partner of the Year
I've tried several Reporting add-on's for Xero and have selected Spotlight Reporting above all the others. It is very user-friendly and intuitive, and I was able to get up to speed very quickly thanks to the great support from the Spotlight team, and their online resources. Most of all my clients think they are great too, and at the end of the day that's what counts!! I can highly recommend Spotlight - or perhaps I shouldn't else I'll lose the competitive edge it's giving me!
Brian Katzen, Chartered Accountant, Registered Tax Agent, Xero Advisor
How to connect Xero to Spotlight
Filtering Imported Categories
Learn how to instantly connect Spotlight with Xero
Working with Tracked Budgets
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