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Further to Mr Howarth's request in May2022 under the title 'Reporting - Include journal ID', I would like to request one additional step to be added.

Creating mapping against Xero transactional data is very testing as it is impossible to create a fixed unique reference for each line. To narrow things down, you would have to use JournalID but then need to concatenate with other fields to differentiate between the lines within a single journal. eg. description, dates, amounts or a combination of other fields. However, these joined fields can be edited! There is no way I can currently see that allows us to create a reliable static and unique reference for individual transaction lines.

Different accounting systems I have previously used have provided 'Batch' or 'JournalID' along with a Journal line entry number. eg. a journal with 4 lines would be referenced 12345/1, 12345/2, 12345/3 and 12345/4. These numbers would remain the same even if any of the details in the 4 lines (description, code, amount, etc..) were amended.

There is a Journal report but I was advised by a Xero specialist, the ordering of the transactions within each journal in this report can change so cannot be used to create a journal line entry number and there is no way to create a Journal Line entry number.

I would have thought that this line entry or some other unique identifier already exists within Xero's architecture and I think it would be very useful if it was made available next to any report with JournalID. Hopefully others will agree.

Thank you for your consideration.

This is a basic function of every other accounting system I've ever met, why isn't it available in Xero? Madness!