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Manual Journals - Assign Contact name to journal

The ability to assign contact in manual journals.

Purpose: To enable to track journal entries with contact name

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In development  ·  AdminKelly Munro (Community Manager, Xero) responded  · 

Thanks so much for your continued interest and feedback about how valuable adding a contact to a manual journal would be for you, your business, and clients.

We wanted to share that we’re making good headway in this space. For customers in the US, we’ve now released our new manual journals experience, which lays important foundations for us to build on capabilities like adding contacts to manual journals.

While this specific functionality isn’t available just yet, it's still on the roadmap and is actively being worked through by our product team. We’ll continue to share updates as progress is made.

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  • Todd Brown commented  ·   ·  Report

    As a development company, we all know that "on the roadmap" means very little. This has been requested, and provided as a basic field, in nearly EVERY OTHER ACCOUNTING SYSTEM!. Why is this taking so long and why does this not seem to be a priority for Xero? We waste so much time in our reporting trying to match vendor/customer data to line items. Really considering QB online.

  • Callum Barnes commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hi Kelly, is there any update on feature? It would be a significant improvement as we're currently using very tedious and time consuming work arounds achieve the same. Thank you!

  • Callum Barnes commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hi Kelly, is there any update on feature? It would be a significant improvement as we're currently using very tedious and time consuming work arounds achieve the same. Thank you!

  • Klaudia Brzezinska commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hi Xero Team, thanks for the update. Do you have an estimated timeline for when the ability to assign contacts to manual journal lines will be available for UK users? This feature would greatly improve tracking and reporting of journal entries against customers and suppliers.

  • Patrycja Sliwinska commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hi,
    I’m really excited about this! Do you know when it will be available in other jurisdictions?

  • Roneil Callo commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hi, please can you advise if the feature is just rolled out to employees who are based in US with US IP address etc?

  • Asif Livesey commented  ·   ·  Report

    Been wanting this for a while- a huge headache currently!! Any ETA pls?

  • Matt Goff commented  ·   ·  Report

    i don't think Xero understands what a pain point this is. If you amortize prepaids via a manual JE (which we do because the workaround to automate this is awful), none of the vendor names come across. So when I do M2M recon every close, I have to export the subledgers to Excel, manually add a Contact for every blank line, then do a pivot table. Creating a little database with a VLOOKUP makes it somewhat faster, but come on, this should be core functionality.

  • Josh Walker commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hi,

    Could you please advise if there is an estimated timeline for when this enhancement will be released?

    This feature would significantly improve our reporting and analyse by vendor.

    Thank you!

  • John Alappatt commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is common sense to add a contact when entering a journal entry.

  • Cenk Tukel commented  ·   ·  Report

    Thank you for the update.
    When is the launch date for "contact" data addition to MJs?

  • Devadarshini Ganashalingham commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hi Kelly and Team,

    I noticed that the request to include the contact (vendor name) on Manual Journals was moved to In Development on 27 February 2026.

    Could you please advise if there is an estimated timeline for when this enhancement will be released?

    This feature would significantly improve our reporting and make it much easier to analyse our P&Ls by vendor.

    We'd appreciate any update you can provide, as this enhancement is important for our reporting needs.

    Thank you!

  • Todd Brown commented  ·   ·  Report

    Given the fact that it's taken them over 13 years to even consider this, I doubt it will happen in our career lifetime. Might as well move to a better platform than grow ancient waiting for Xero to respond to anything.

  • Michelle Wagley commented  ·   ·  Report

    I am also curious to know the timeline of when this will be released.

  • Len Ali commented  ·   ·  Report

    Thanks for the update, Kelly. Honestly, I'd given up hope on this one after five years, so it's good to see movement.

    Quick questions for us to plan around:

    Timeline: What's your estimated delivery window (quarter/month)?

    Notification: How will we know when this ships, release notes, email notification, in-app alert?

  • Todd Brown commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is great news! Is there a timeline that we can expect to finally be able to accomplish this?

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