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Contacts - Sort by Contact account number

Sort 'customer or supplier' list by account number from the drop down menu, (not the same as the search function).
The account number field is a unique identifier to any customer or supplier record. Having this function should be a necessity as it is with most other software.
In many cases the account number field is overlooked in Xero from the users point of view, yet it underpins the whole database for many people and connecting software/apps.
In the same vein, the 'date added' drop down, which could be argued as being able to achieve a similar result, in my experience does not return a true result.

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  • Ecomology Staff commented  ·   ·  Report

    I see this is quite old but totally agree. Also when populating the account number field it would be good to know what's next in the sequence otherwise its just a guessing game. Come on Xero. Basic function!

  • Paul Rawson commented  ·   ·  Report

    We really need to be able to search and organise by account number, rather than name only. When creating a new contact I have no idea what sequential number to give them?

  • Brian Griffiths commented  ·   ·  Report

    This feature was dropped a couple of years ago and I really miss it

  • Rafli Taslim commented  ·   ·  Report

    We used to register our supplier and customer by account number and sort it that way. When we have new vendor or customer, we just sort the contact by account number to refer the last number and add one (1) for the next vendor or customer.
    Now we have to export the contact to our google sheet and sort it there to see the last number we have assigned. It is very cumbersome for just sorting contact by its account number.

  • Pete Eastwood commented  ·   ·  Report

    For suppliers contact info we need to ability to have a non-unique account number added as we don't decide one what account number they give us - they are sometimes the same for 2 or more suppliers - and Xero currently makes this field unique.

  • Sue Parry commented  ·   ·  Report

    Search by contact account reference, PLEASE.