Xero Top Tips - Tracking Categories

As many farms and estates have multiple enterprises or have diversified into non-farming activities within their current business one feature of Xero may be helpful when it comes to understanding the profit/ loss position of these various ventures. Tracking Categories will allow you to analyse income and expenditure without the need to have lots of additional codes (e.g. having a repairs code for each enterprise or for each rental property). By using Tracking Categories this allows costs to be shown as a consolidated figure in your annual accounts whilst also being able to break these figures downs between different enterprises or properties.

1. Tracking Categories can be found under "Accounting" and "Advanced Accounting". You can have 2 Tracking Categories however you can have up to 100 Tracking Options, as sub-categories within each of these.