Organisation settings - Ability to wind back/restore to a previous date
Ability to restore Xero org to previous date.
Purpose: To make customers able to get the previous data from the previous date if they made mistakes in their Xero org.

Hi everyone, thank you for your engagement here in product ideas. While we appreciate wanting a direct option to be able to restart or restore an organisation at a point in time this isn't something we have intentions of developing for in Xero atm.
Xero performs daily backups of customer data to protect against data corruption and hosting service failures. However, these backups are not available for users to restore their organisation to a previous state.
Many actions in Xero are reversible (for example Remove & Redo on bank transactions) we have a help article on Xero Central that may help for some of the scenario's you're after, you may find the History & Notes is useful in determining what actions have been recently made so you can 'undo' these.
For future cases, if you're looking to try out a feature and not sure how it will work the demo company is always a great option to trial and test Xero's features.
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Debbie Cundy commented
undo is a basic need and critical to none accountants especialy when your software has no explainations or warnings. regardless of of if the error is due to a faiure with the human or with the app. Those of us who do their own accounting need software set to allow sytems to be learned Plus mistakes to be corrected . if you cant roll back to a given day provide human support to allow access to fix the errors along with your clients/subscribers. on the day its required !
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Zowie Bailey commented
The option to reset the organisation and start afresh without having to cancel current subscription.
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BRUCE NGUYEN commented
Yes I agree. The undo is so critical esp for new user like me
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Samuel Hwang commented
Our Draft Accounts (Xero Partner version) have "Rental Schedule" and "Profit and Loss Report" (on separate pages to the Rental Schedule).
Today, I created a new report named "Motorhome Report".
For some unknown, when I tried displaying the "Profit and Loss Report", the data was 100% replaced with "Rental Schedule" account codes and amount.
The original "Rental Schedule" did not disappear. However the "Profit and Loss Report" is now 100% identical to the "Rental Schedule" Report with the exception of the header name.In other words, the Profit & Loss Report was completely replaced with the "Rental Schedule" data.
There ought to be a way to revert the Draft Accounts to the version dated yesterday (ie. prior to this occurring). Because it would take hours to set up the P & L Report again as there are 254 P & L account codes to re-customise!
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Denise McDonald commented
I used another app to import data from my Etsy shop. I don't like what it did and want to remove everything the app did, which included bill generation, bill payments, bank accounts, other accounts, in other words, a lot of stuff. Best way seems to go back to Xero as it was yesterday.
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Marie Pardoe commented
This is critical in my opinion. This isn't the first time I've needed something like this to rectify a mistake I've made. It would save so much time and confusion if we could restore/wind back to a previous day.
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Ka Yan Yu commented
Critical as I just received a client file and attempted to reconcile. Only half way through the process then I found out the system has been generating the same bill twice. I am not certain how many bills are in this category but it is also too late to revert what I have done one by one. As a result, the whole bank rec and purchase billing are no longer reliable and I have no clue how to fix it at this point.
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Brody MacBeth commented
This is supported by so many - why not avoid hours of hassles when one click of the mouse can roll back so much like asset registers and depreciation. To have the option to reboot from the previous day even if it needs xero support staff to do it would be excellent
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Brigitte Michel commented
Please hurry up with this - its obviously critical - integration mess ups cause hours of fixing and this would completely resolve that as well as being able to explore outcomes freely without fear of causing irreversible or very tedious problems.
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Michael Brannelly commented
I guess still not implemented. i have just reconciled six months worth of data and have used the wrong codes for many transactions. Would be lovely now to just restore back to last week
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Sean Ilbery commented
essential
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Benjamin Giliomee commented
Reverting to a previous date is needed due to a mistake made on our end... This is Critical. Please!
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Forrest Fresh commented
Please, we all make mistakes and the ability to revert would be life saving!!!
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Brigette Fulton - Hunter Withers Limited commented
Very important
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Mehfuz Ahmed commented
I've made a right mess of my account. Would be great if you could go back like other softwares
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Debra Lawrence commented
This would be extremely helpful
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Sharron Lindley commented
yes please, so helpful
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Troy Rowe commented
Please!!!
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Vince Essex commented
Yes i have made a right mess up of reconciling between 3 accounts and just want to go back to a few hours ago to unwind the mess !
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Keira Alexander commented
YES! I just updated an invoice to add information and work, yet it has updated with the new information and I've lost all the old information and have to ask the client to send me back the old invoice :( So annoying, a simple fix for this would be to restore a previous version.