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That is a huge part of keeping my reports manageable and gives me the ability to collapse reports or expand reports depending upon who I am preparing the report for.

We really need this feature..might have to search for another program because I can't keep going back and forth with creating new accounts just so I could see pseudo-subtotals within a particular account or category.

This is an essential basic function of accounting software. When will this be done?

I really needed this feature as well. However, I did find a workaround:
https://central.xero.com/s/article/Create-and-edit-group-accounts-in-financial-reports#Createanaccountgroup

Any update on when sub-account functionality will be added?

Got most of the way through new account entry and opening balances, only to find no subaccount functionality...I figured this feature was a given, seeing that most other software out there has this structure. It's absolutely necessary.
Coming out of the dumpster fire that is QBOL, I thought I had found our answer in Xero but the search apparently goes on...

Sub-accounts, subsidiary accounts, contra accounts, and parent and child accounts are sometimes necessary to better understand the correlation, relationship, or even the offset of an account.

Yes please!

I did not know that Xero cannot create sub-accounts. All other software has this feature. Just provide a cleaner trial balance report that does not look "clunky". Yet another feature expected to be available that isn't.

Is this something that can be done within Xero? I need to create sub-accounts and have them grouped under a parent account.

I used to use Xero. I'm fairly certain I could create subaccounts. What happened? How does the chart of accounts even function without this ability? I'm assuming there is an alternative, but I don't know what it is.

I just did a search and found other comparable accounting programs that DO have sub accounts. I really need that feature. I'm wondering if I'm doing the right thing converting to Xero without it.

Agree with all the comments here. A simple basic function that is standard on your competitors equivalent products, and a reason to choose them over Xero. Sub accounts is hardly reinventing the wheel, should not be an issue to implement.

Xero have never enabled or set up SUB Accounts. It is a feature MOST needed by many clients.
Please provide a workaround. You make the option of 'Categories' available as a quasi tool. ( I know about grouping also)
HOWEVER it is a tricky business trying to categorise every transaction and not miss this step. Especially by other users.

OPTION for Better Use of CATEGORIES

When setting up an Account in the 'Chart of Accounts' Could Xero enable a feature to set a Category option here - so no matter who is working on the file - The Account used could be set up to include a set category option pulling through to the account code at invoicing, billing, Spend Money etc.

This would enable a sure fire better option to have a closer more doable reporting system for splitting the account income and expenses for those who trully need it.

Then The user can rely on the choosing of the account code, and this will be linked to the correct categories of various income and expenses which could be created linked by categories from conception. This would work much better.

Yes, can hardly comprehend that this isn't a standard feature, that creates a sub-total for all chicken accounts (and all hen accounts cannot be posted to).

100% absolutely. This is essential. I can't believe Xero doesn't support this.

Seriously, we need sub/parent accounts in Xero. This is how accounting is done. It must be here.

Agreed. For lab fees account, we could assign which dentists they belong to.

This will help in generating good reports and classifying the revenue and cost further. For example expences could be divided into Material, labour and overheads.

It's really important to us.