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The default setting to only match to local currency should be removed, or the user should be able to chose the default setting.

Problem: Our organisation has over 60 monthly subscription in foreign currency that is paid through our business credit card account and the foreign currency amounts aren't matched properly causing manual matching.

Solution: Firstly improve the reconciling so that the forex amount on the invoice is converted at the forex rate and appears on the bank recon screen in green. Secondly add functionality that all bills are separated between which accounts they are to be settled from so that they show up green in the bank recon screen in the bank account they were selected to be paid from

When reconciling, bills from suppliers invariably do not appear automatically as a match. I have to click the Match tab, then click, in my case:

Untick - Show GBP items only
(or Show <local currency> items only)

If this could either be turned off by default, or allow the user to set a global default of off / on for this toggle, this would dramatically improve reconciliation for users who have bills from suppliers in a foreign currency.

Strong agree with this request.

Adding an option for "Show [account currency] items only]" has been requested many times - see https://productideas.xero.com/forums/939198-for-small-businesses/suggestions/44988664-bank-reconciliation-untick-show-currency-item. Comment and mark as important to keep this coming up on PD team's radar.

If there's a concern for auto-match with foreign currency in prompting incorrect matches, in addition to a fuzzy converted amount (and date logic) match, the rule could require a match with one of payee name or reference. That would significantly expedite our reconcilliation process.

Does Xero customer support and development team care at all about customers?
Apparently not.
Please sack them and employ a team that does care.
This change would take mere minutes to implement, and has been requested by multiple users apparently since 10 years ago!
What is the benefit of doing it the current way? None that I can see, other than to save face of the development team.

I agree with all comments it requires an extra manual step which would seem pointless when the alternative is to show all items.

If you are incompetent at making this change, would you prefer to send me the source code, so that I can modify it for you in about 3 minutes!

Every time I go to do a reconciliation, the lack of an ability to show foreign currency bills by default triples the time taken to do foreign currency reconciliations.
This suggestion is over three years old and *still* hasn't been actioned.
How many times have xero increased their subscription prices to reflect "increased functionality" since then?

Big vote for this - it means reconciliation that should be single-click becomes entirely manual; have to turn off NZD only, then find the invoice reference, copy it, paste it into the reference field, then search, then select it, then hit reconcile. Silly - please prioritise this fix.

Has this still not been made an option yet?!

This would save so much time

I'm joining the chorus, please add an option to not have to open the Match dialog and uncheck "Show *** items only"

This simple change would require very little work from Xero but would save HOURS of time each month for people like me, and so it would be a quick win for Xero.

For years we have been frustrated by this. It consumes 4-5 hours a month for us. Very very painful.

I agree. This needs more traction as it is so simple to implement and would save so much frustration for Xero users who use multiple currencies.

I also have no use for an AI assistant; just improve what you already have.

All I’m going to say is this: we spend around 1 hour and 40 minutes every single year manually unticking ‘Show AUD items only’ — just to find non-AUD receipts.

Never mind Jax the AI assistant… just give us the option to disable this checkbox permanently!

Simple fix, big impact. Streamlining the basics like this makes Xero even better — and that’s what we’re all here for.

Give us the option to not autotick select gbp items only when reconciling a foreign currency bill.

It gets annoying having to untick it every single time for each item and it should be simple to implement

Yes, please! I have quite a number of foreign transactions via Stripe, and having to manually match them is a pain. I both hope to increase the sales volume, and shudder at the thought of having to manually match way more transactions...

The only reason that I went with the comprehensive plan is for the multi-currency support, because - like the others here- most of my bills are in other currencies. However, there is limited value in having multi-currency support if it doesn't speed up my workflow in reconsolidating these items: With the current settings it requires 3 extra clicks to match a bill/transaction in a different currency!

Please consider this, from a developer's point it would be so simple to change this!