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Better search functionality - it would be very helpful if you could search any field in Xero for a specific item. ie if looking for a particular purchase order & it was entered in the description field of the invoice it would display when that text is searched for

Is there a practical limitation to why this isn't being implemented? For us, and clearly for a large number of users, it's inexplicable that this isn't a basic function. The strength of feeling is clear, and yet for nine years, this suggestion has gone unaddressed. An explanation beyond 'we're just not gonna bother' would be helpful.

I have just watched a You Tube video for Quickbooks on line and the Search facility is very much still available in fact it has been enhanced. So come on Xero sort it. I dread the once a month report day when I am sat at my computer having questions fired at me "where did we get the lime mortar from and how much did we pay" etc and I have no quick answer (that is just an example). It is very stressful when you have the amount of suppliers we have. If Quickbooks can do it why can't Xero?
From Val Harland

This would be a huge QOL quality of life improvement. Finding specific things referenced inside invoices. With hundreds of customers, each getting monthly invoices, finding a specific invoice by a keyword would be extremely helpful.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! PLEASE ADD THIS SEARCH FEATURE!!

For Example; I have to invoice 50 different individuals at 3 different companies.. now over a two week period, one person may be invoiced 6 invoices. Now I have to search through each invoice to find 1 invoice of concern. How annoying!

Even more so, because when I cannot locate the correct invoice, I have to then go back.. type the name again.. and search ALL OVER AGAIN! I cannot simply go back to search results, or skip though the searched details. FOR GODS SAKE XERO get it together!! Like this is what you are here for.. to help your clients make business easier!

Searching by Description keyword, is critical! Running a real estate business, I want to be able to see a list of expenses by property and currently I can not.

I can search in outlook for any piece of text and it will look through years of data with an instant result. By using outlook I can find an item by description, invoice number etc etc It would be fabulous to be able to have the search facility in XERO be just as accurate without running reports. This is particularly useful when coding items that do not occur regularly.

In our previous software we were able to do an advanced search to find specific information on our invoices located in the description field of the invoice. We have not been able to find this information in Xero. Please consider a search by description field be added as it is a very handy tool for our business and I am sure for many others alike.

To be able to search by description is extremely handy and I can't see why you would not have this feature in place already. Can you please reconsider this?

Xero, this is absolute BS. Get your act together and implement a simple search method. Searching for keywords is basic functionality—how are you not listening to your customers' demands? I'm tired of wasting time manually opening invoices and quotes when a search function should suffice.

And to top it off, you've just raised your fees! I expect this fundamental feature to be available ASAP. Otherwise, I'll be looking for other options for my businesses. Get it together, Xero!

This is INFURIATING!! I can't think of any other similar product that doesn't allow a global search. Why isn't Xero implementing this? I get daily updates in my inbox from Xero clients asking for this.

Hi Xero Team.
Thankyou for getting back to us all after the 9 years.

I understand that this request can be very difficult to implement on a cloud based system but as you can clearly see, there is definitely a requirement which go far beyond the want to have our cash flow represented in various charts and reports.

A middle ground could be to develop a NON-CLOUD BASED application where you could download all your XERO invoices and orders, ( READ ACCESS ONLY) so the subscription based system still applies, this could be done by the user maybe once a month or so and then they have a LOCAL copy of all their invoices and orders in which performing a search function in the description field would be so much easier for Xero to implement.

Please give this some genuine thought as waiting 9 years to respond to the first request is fairly poor on behalf of Xero.

When you say atm, do you mean this decade??? I can see that the first request for this was in 2015....you make other changes, which, quite frankly aren't nearly as important for those who actually work in accounting and have to use/ search for things on a daily basis. Surely, investment in programming should be made on things that customers actually need.
We will most likely be going back to Sage if this is not addressed.
Also, how many request do you have to get (actual numbers please!) to developing your customers' requests..

Xero has a lot of great features but this is a HUGE miss. The ability to search bank transactions by description (bank text) is a no rainer and should be added immediately. This is a huge hold up for processing transactions.

For a long while I'd presumed that what I was looking for must not be present (wrongly), so I am amazed to discover that it is not possible to search invoices by the content of the item descriptions, and I must manually go through and open invoices manually instead to find what I am looking for... what century is this!?

I echo many of the comments below. I too would welcome this improvement.

While Xero is indeed an amazing product, I'm baffled by their omission of even the simplest search functions. It's evident that many users are eager for this basic feature. Given their apparent lack of interest in adding it, I'm now considering alternatives to Xero based on their recent response. It's disappointing when such a crucial aspect is overlooked.

How difficult can it be to add a Find facility by word

Poor form Xero

This is Critical. Especially searching descriptions in Expenses