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@Ethan depends on the size of your business, but this is a good start: https://arielle.com.au/best-accounting-software-for-small-business/

My personal preference is QuickBooks but it's expensive

If you have another option - please let me know. I've been looking for another solution to XERO for a while now. It is expensive, clunky and feels outdated.

Shame… this customer needs to go somewhere else then

This is a big problem and I am sure most companies have admin staff who input but don't need to see how is in the bank - it is restricting use of Xero which is a shame because it is generally a good system. Also you cant give one employee invoice only with purchases and sales it is one or the other ? These issues need to be addressed asap Thanking you.

More detailed access rights on individual profiles is needed as not everyone in an organisation needs full access and should not have access to confidential information. Bank accounts is just one area, Payroll is another.

It seems crazy that such a simple function that many businesses would need, like granting access to selected accounts for "coding only" is not possible. It would be good to see an update on this by xero. It means their basic user function isn't going to work for many business owners who need other people to code for them without being able to see account in/out balances. Pretty disappointed as being able to select/deactivate the dashboard preferences would solve this issue for the "standard user" at an admin level.

Xero, If you have built something with flaws in it, they must be fixed! This ia a massive flaw.

Kerrin's comment is well made. The Xero response provides no commitment or time line for this request to be applied, which is disappointing. There's a golden rule in business: listen to your customers.

Basic Users who can issue invoices have access to all available options in the 'Paid To' field when receipting invoices.

It would be great to be able to set what 'Pay To' options are permitted for each User Group.

So by looking at the requests this has been raised back in May 2022 and still nothing has been done. I like many others want to see "beautiful" exchanged for "useful" and "meeting customer needs" so would really appreciate this being bumped up to a priority please

Bank account access on an account by account basis is extremely important to us. We are happy for our admin assistant to see credit card accounts but not our main current account as it contain salary and dividend payment details. Please give the topic a high priority. Thank you.

How is it Xero can raise prices by more than 200% over the last 3 years, but can't make adequate permissions profiles/checklists? Forget your beautiful work, we need solutions for accounting departments and companies. With as many people who have voted, clearly this is something needed. How hard can it be to code this in?

The issue at hand is of paramount importance to our small-scale enterprise, compelling me to explore alternative accounting systems. This is an indispensable requirement for our business operations.

I find myself in agreement with the majority of the previous respondents, expressing incredulity at the fact that this has not been executed despite a decade of persistent requests.

As a charity with many bank accounts for different areas of the charity, this would be really helpful to allow volunteers to help with specific tasks. At the moment we're unable to provide this access due to the amount of sensitive data held on Xero.

To Ethan M (Admin Xero)
Ian F's comments were spot on - this issue has been going for around 10 years and continued to be ignored and should be a simple thing for any programmer worth his or her salt to fix.
I'm convinced Xero's name is based on having Zero regard to users requests and this is the utmost evidence of that.
Your attitude and regard for not caring what your user's want is really PATHETIC.
Furthermore, removing the history so it doesn't show how many users have "voted" for this matter to be fixed over the last 10 years is absolutely deceitful (maybe you should join the Board of Qantas !!)

Ethan M,
I have many clients who I have brought accross from MYOB to Xero and this is such a basic change that your saying you cant spare the resources is frankly laughable. This change could be done in less than an hour. Any programmer worth his/her salt would tell you that. Please effect this change asap - 10 years is long enough to wait - that's how long this query has really been going because it was moved from another forum, which you'd know. If you haven't been able to spare the resources in the past 10 years why should we believe the next 10 will be different!!

@Tzippy, that's an idea worth exploring thank you - we are so frustrated with the inefficiencies of being unable to assign basic work to staff. Since Xero indicates no intent to make Xero more user-friendly for businesses larger than just one or two people, cashbook might be the way to go.

Please add this suggestion to the top of the list! We are now thinking of opening a separate Xero cashbook just to keep the contents of the affected bank accounts confidential, and that is not a very efficient method.

Hugely important for us too. I need to allow access to credit cards but not the current account. Please put this to the forefront.

This feature seems a very basic feature to provide for discretionary and security reasons and should be prioritized.