If you work with clients who are buying regularly, managing stock, or juggling supplier payments across the month, you will know the problem: the data is there, but the story is not.

One report shows open bills. Another shows purchases. Another shows what was paid. Then, when a client asks a simple question like “Why do we owe this supplier so much?” or “Are our costs going up?” you are stuck piecing together the answer from multiple places.

That is exactly the problem Supplier Tables is designed to solve.

With the new Supplier Tables and Payables Table, accountants and advisors can move from scattered payables data to a clearer, more useful view of supplier activity. You can see what is owed, what has been purchased, what it is costing the business, and how that is changing over time — all in one place.

Payables are not just an admin task. They tell you a lot about how a business is operating.

They can show whether a client is leaning too heavily on supplier credit, whether purchasing patterns have shifted, whether margins are under pressure from rising input costs, or whether cash flow pressure is starting to build.

But for many accountants, getting to those insights is harder than it should be.

Common pain points include:

Supplier Tables brings those answers together in a way that is easier to analyse, easier to explain, and easier to share.

The new Supplier Tables give you a richer view of supplier performance and supplier balances in a single table.

For each supplier, you can review metrics such as:

Credit notes are also incorporated into supplier balances.

This means you are not just seeing a payable balance in isolation. You are seeing the activity behind it.

That is useful when a client wants to understand whether a higher balance is the result of increased purchasing, rising costs, slower payment, or a once-off spike. Instead of giving them a partial answer, you can show the full picture.

For accountants, one of the most useful parts of this feature is the ability to compare and group the data in ways that match the question being asked.

You can compare against a prior period or the same period last year. You can group by tag, payment status, or keep the view ungrouped. You can also switch between percentage view, numeric view, and multi-period view depending on what you want to highlight.

That flexibility matters in real client conversations.

If a client wants to know which suppliers are driving cost growth, you can compare periods and focus on cost or average purchase value.

If they want to know where cash is getting stuck, you can group by payment status and quickly see what has been settled and what is still outstanding.

If they want a cleaner management or board report, you can download the table or add it directly to a report or template.

In other words, Supplier Tables help accountants spend less time extracting answers and more time explaining what the numbers mean.

Summary views are helpful, but accountants also need detail they can trust.

That is why drill-down is built into the experience. You can break the view out by current period and prior period, making it easier to reconcile movements and understand exactly what sits behind what is owed.

This is especially useful at month end or during review conversations, when you need to move quickly from “that number looks different” to “here is why.”

Rather than relying on manual checking across multiple systems, you can investigate changes directly from the table and trace balances back with more confidence.

Alongside Supplier Tables, the new Payables Table gives users a practical ageing-style view of what is owed to different suppliers over a three-month period.

You can see what is current, what falls into the next three months, what is older, the total due, and the percentage of the total balance.

For firms supporting clients with cash flow planning, that is where this becomes especially valuable.

Instead of only seeing a single payables total, you can see how obligations are spread across time and across suppliers. That makes it easier to spot concentration risk, prepare for upcoming payment pressure, and help clients make better short-term cash decisions.

Because the table is similar in concept to the receivables table, it should also feel familiar to users who already review debtor positions in Syft.

There is also the option to group by FX exposures or view the data without grouping, which gives extra visibility for businesses dealing with foreign currency supplier balances.

And, just like the supplier view, drill-down capability means you can move from summary to detail without losing momentum.

Another practical strength of this feature is that it reflects the underlying activity users actually care about.

You can see direct transactions from the bank, and any adjustments made in the underlying provider will pull through into Syft. That helps keep the analysis aligned to the source data, without forcing accountants to maintain a separate version of the truth.

Plus, if you’re working with consolidations, you can see a clear consolidated view of suppliers, painting the full picture of suppliers within your group.

For clients, that means fewer confusing mismatches.

For accountants, it means more confidence that the conversations they are having are grounded in the latest numbers.

Supplier Tables is not just about adding more columns to a report. It is about making supplier and payables data more useful.

It gives accountants a better way to answer questions like:

And for clients, it turns payables from a back-office number into something they can use to make decisions.

That is the real value of the feature: less time chasing detail, more time using it.

For accountants and advisors, the best tools are the ones that make complex conversations simpler. Supplier Tables does that by bringing owed amounts, purchasing activity, cost trends, payment status, and payables timing into a clearer reporting experience.

So, when a client asks what is happening with suppliers, you no longer need to piece the answer together.

You can show them.