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  1. Purchases Tab: would like to see Billable expenses not billed.

    7 votes

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  2. I would like to be able to 'print' or 'save' a pdf invoice to a folder of my choosing rather than to the default 'downloads'
    Currently ALL downloaded items from the internet are placed in 'downloads' so I need to move the invoice pdf to my chosen folder. It would be a excellent time saver if I could choose my own folder to save to, and have it use this chosen folder each time.

    I believe it is a software bug to rely on the default settings of the users browser to determine where files are saved to.

    5 votes

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    Thanks for sharing, Jane.

    We've reviewed your idea and now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!

    We don't have any plans for this right now, but we'll track the interest from your idea here.

  3. It would be useful if the 20% investment boost expense could be allocated to its own code rather than the default depreciation code.

    3 votes

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    Hi 👋 your idea is being looked into by our Community team. We'll be in touch soon to update you once your idea has been reviewed.

    Did you know you can join our Xero Research panel to be involved in early testing and research? Find out more and sign up through our website 🙂

  4. It would be helpful if loan payments and bank account transfers were added automatically.

    Adding these manually is time-consuming.

    3 votes

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  5. It will be great to have meaningful payroll reports. E.g., the leave overview is a blunt tool, as it shows all employees, including those who have left. The same applies to the Auto Enrolment Summary Report - it is a basic on-screen report with no filters, etc. And, yes, includes historical employees. Where there are filters, these overlook some choices which should be present. E.g., wage type, which payroll runs are they- monthly, quarterly, weekly, etc

    8 votes

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    0 comments  ·  Payroll  ·  Admin →
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  6. When processing a number of customer remittance advices, it would be very useful to have a button to get you straight back to sales invoices awaiting payments list. Currently, when finalising a deposit, the system takes to the bank account that you have selected for the deposit. You then have to go back to Sales>Invoices>Awaiting Payment which the system does lag in loading.

    3 votes

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    Hi Mike 🌟 Thanks for sharing this idea. We appreciate you explaining how streamlined navigation could help when processing multiple customer remittance advices. Your idea has moved to Gaining Support, meaning the community team have reviewed it and it's open for votes and comments. This is a great opportunity for others experiencing similar workflow challenges to add their votes and perspectives. We encourage you to share this idea with your network to help build momentum!!

  7. When you go to enter a leave request manually (not employee entered), if you select the dates first, and then realise 'oh I meant this to be sick leave, not annual leave' and change the leave type, the dates 'reset' to current date, and don't retain the information you've already entered.

    This means you can accidentally enter an incorrectly dated leave request, having done all the hard work of calculating the hours and dates, then realised at the last second that the 'type' of leave is wrong - everything resets!

    I don't always work top-down, I want my work to…

    4 votes

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    Thanks for submitting your idea and detailing the changes you're looking for!

    We've reviewed your suggestion, and it's now open for community support and feedback. The next step is to get your colleagues involved! Encourage them to vote and comment—the more input we receive, the clearer the benefit is for everyone

  8. We send CIS statements to our SubContractors each month and the tool that does it is very good.

    However we get no visibility of what the Subcontractor sees. Please could you add an option to bcc all the emails to a nominated address.

    3 votes

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    Hi 👋 your idea is being looked into by our Community team. We'll be in touch soon to update you once your idea has been reviewed.

    Did you know you can join our Xero Research panel to be involved in early testing and research? Find out more and sign up through our website 🙂

  9. Xero Analytics Dashboard - Filter by Tracking Categories

    The ability to filter Analytics dashboards (ideally the whole dashboard, or individual widgets) by tracking category.

    Purpose:
    • View performance of each category through the same set of graphs
    • Compare categories side by side over chosen time periods

    This would make Analytics much more useful for businesses that segment results using tracking categories.

    4 votes

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    Hi 👋 your idea is being looked into by our Community team. We'll be in touch soon to update you once your idea has been reviewed.

    Did you know you can join our Xero Research panel to be involved in early testing and research? Find out more and sign up through our website 🙂

  10. We have government clients who are asking to be sent invoices using the eInvoicing function, rather than pdf's via Xero's email function.
    Some government clients will ONLY accept eInvoices from Jan-27.
    BUT these government clients require a separate field to be added to the invoice header so that their system can recognise the invoice and link it to their purchase order.

    We are unable to comply as we alreadyusetheReferencefieldforINTERNALpurposes.

    If we could add an internal reference field that can be seen on the Contact card's Activity section in the same way the Reference…

    3 votes

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    Hi Jo, thanks for sharing this idea. We appreciate you explaining how dual reference fields could help meet government client requirements, especially with the January 2027 eInvoicing mandate approaching. After reviewing this with our product team, we've moved this idea to Not in pipeline, which means the product team have reviewed the idea and it isn't on the foreseeable roadmap. The idea remains open for votes, so we encourage the community to continue supporting it if this impacts their business. We'll keep monitoring feedback from the community on this topic.

  11. 2 votes

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     ·  System responded

    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  12. Ability for AU orgs that use pooling in Fixed Assets to access the new Fixed Assets experience and make use of features like being able to attach a file to an asset.

    15 votes

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  13. Integration of all employee leave taken with a shared calendar in outlook or calendar in Xero itself that everyone can view to see who is on leave and when.

    9 votes

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    We appreciate you taking the time to suggest this!

    We've reviewed your idea and have opened it up to the community to get behind and support it. Along the way, other members can also view, vote and share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

  14. Can we bring in all Journals made in the financial year not just what we create in workpapers (I picked a job we have completed to test, to see what we might like to see & this is something that would be handy, so we don't double up JNLs), also shows that the system will talk back & forth

    4 votes

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    Thank you for submitting your valuable idea and specifying the critical changes you need.

    We have completed our internal review of your submission. It is now live and awaiting community support.

    Your idea's success depends on collective action. Please share this with colleagues who would benefit. We also encourage comments, which allow other users to share details on how your idea would improve their overall experience with Xero.

  15. New Xero ribbon - can it be amended?
    Too much! There are things I don't use or need day to day. "Dashboard" became "home". Ok not great, but okay.
    The the "+" icon on the ribbon gives me the shortcut to anything.
    Xero has just gone and cluttered it up with stuff I don't need day to day. Like "Payroll" and "Reporting". Anyone else agree/disagree? How can it be amended from the users pov?

    3 votes

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    Appreciate your feedback, and it's good to understand our different users needs when moving across Xero. Its good to hear that the '+' icon helps you get to most places you need.

    I want to assure you we did a lot of user research and testing of the new navigation to ensure it would suit the needs of majority of businesses.

    We'd like to continue to get a sense of the interest from your idea but want to be upfront that this isn't something we have plans of enabling any time in the near future.

  16. It is crucial to be able to print or email statements to multiple or all contacts with received money transactions at once showing each received money transaction for the contact in a time period on individual/separate pages by contact. This is really needed functionality because any nonprofit entity needs to send giving/donation statements at year end. I have tried multiple reports and statements. I can create an Account Transactions report showing all the clients and the received money entries, but it doesn't allow me to separate contact on their own page. The functionality under Business and sending statements would be…

    6 votes

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    Hi Justin, thanks for sharing your idea again, I understand the challenge of creating a statement for a contact who only have receive money transactions. We've reviewed your idea agree its something others have asked for, so now it's up to the community to get behind and support it. Make sure you share your idea with any colleagues that this could benefit so they can add their vote too!

    Along with votes, other members can now comment to share additional detail about how your idea could improve their experience with Xero.

  17. From 1st January 2025 businesses in Germany must be able to receive e-invoices and this function does not exist in the Global edition we use for our German clients.

    We need this functionality setting up as a matter of urgency.

    39 votes

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    Thanks for raising the idea with us. Our team are aware of the mandate of eInvoicing for Germany. While we don't have immediate work planned at this stage our plan is to support any Peppol-enabled region in the long term and we are paying close attention to the interest from users on this idea. We'll be sure to update of any progress surrounding this for you, here.

    The mandate currently states "The new legal regulation currently contains no specifications for the electronic transmission of electronic invoices. An email inbox should therefore initially be sufficient to receive an electronic invoice."

    Based on this, currently with Xero an eInvoice could be received by using our Email to bills service, or by including the invoice as an attachment and sending to your organisation's Files library. On agreement with your suppliers you could share your bills, or files library email with them so…

  18. Tracking Summary Report - existing (until 11 Nov 2025) report can be run by selecting specific account code. The new report (from 11 Nov 2025), can only be run by account types. We want to continue to run this report by account code. Please see the attachment for an example.

    3 votes

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     ·  System responded

    Thanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.

    Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.

    If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂

  19. e-invoicing notification

    It would be great if we could get some kind of notification when an e-invoice was received into draft. Without going into our process, not knowing when a e-invoice was received will cause delays in processing as well as paying it.

    39 votes

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  20. Automatically assign a tracking category to a chart of account code, so when costs are billed against the account code, it also automatically assigns those costs to a default tracking category

    176 votes

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    Hi team, we've been following the conversation for being able to assign a tracking category to each account in the Chart of Accounts, and we appreciate everyone here who's taken time to share their feedback.

    We understand manually assigning tracking categories to every line of a transaction is time-consuming and can lead to errors. 

    While not the direct idea asked here, it may help some to know that you can set a default account and tracking on individual contacts. On the flip side once transactions have been entered Find and recode is another feature that could possibly be useful to some here (however we'd recommend checking in with your advisor and testing in the demo org, before using in your own). 

    We want to be transparent with you here that though this idea has been carefully reviewed, like other areas of Xero the Chart of Accounts page initially…

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