Contacts - Allow duplicate contact names
Ability to have duplicate contact names in Xero.
Purpose: It’ll make an easier workflow for users. Because often, they have the same contact name and trading name but different addresses.
AdminXero Team
(Admin, Xero)
shared this idea
Hey community, thank you for your continued interest in this idea.
Wanted to provide an update here as it's been a while since we last spoke to duplicate contacts.
I do understand that, at face value, this seems like a quick fix. However, as the contacts screen interacts with many other parts of Xero, this work can not commence until the modernisation of other, related systems is complete.
Due to this, we do not expect support for duplicate contacts to be delivered in the coming short-term.
In the meantime however, we're keen to continue collecting feedback and votes on this idea, and I will update you here as soon as there's more work to share.
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Dean Wilson
commented
We have a case were we have three distinct customer companies with the exact same name. (This name is shared by at least 130 companies in the trucking industry).
Anything we could to do to support this feature would be great. (there is a GUID identifier number for every customer record, so in theory it would be possible)