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  1. Most of our clients (and I imagine many small businesses in the U.S.) use a hybrid reporting basis. Basically, short term assets and liabilities are recorded using the cash basis while long term assets and liabilities are recorded using the accrual basis.
    Therefore, for example, this will result in sales being recorded when cash received but depreciation and amortization expense are recorded monthly. This method of reporting also results in the accounting basis being more similar to tax basis.

    Xero actually has a webpage describing this (https://www.xero.com/us/guides/cash-vs-accrual-accounting) but states "And if you run a hybrid accounting system, smart…

    7 votes

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  2. Show the email subject line in Xero files.

    It's simple enough to forward emails with invoices to my xero mailbox, but I don't have control over the filename. It would be great if Xero can show the subject line. That way I could change the subject line when I forward the email. It would look like a note on the invoice in Xero Files.

    6 votes

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    Hi everyone, thanks for sharing and supporting this idea. The file name shown in Xero Files is taken from the name on the attachments. As a workaround these could be renamed before the emails are forwarded to Xero or renamed from within Xero files. 

  3. DOCX - Add merge fields for the organisation's Phone number and Email Address in all templates

    5 votes

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  4. Hi,

    I would like if Xero can provide an invoice user view only to look at the overdue invoices.

    This idea came up because we have a requirement to give this access to the person we hired for invoice chasing.

    We do not need to let him see previous invoices or give him access to create new invoices.
    Just a view with pending invoices payments for sent invoices

    2 votes

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  5. If the Total Tax amount per invoice was available for statements, then the Statement could be used as a periodic Tax Invoice.

    6 votes

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  6. Separate field between office address and postal & physical address.

    Purpose: To make the administration process and setting up organisation details in Xero easier.

    37 votes

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  7. Ability to keep the files attached when users’ they’ve copied it into Bills.

    Purpose: To save users’ time from having to manually send the file attachment separately.

    25 votes

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  8. Ability to select one or two users to receive the notifications when there’s some changes in a Bank account.

    Purpose: Because some staff in Xero doesn’t need to know if there’s changes within the bank account.

    78 votes

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  9. Ability to send an automated 'Payment received with thanks' email to the customer

    Purpose: To give a professional image to users’ customers/clients, and save time in a current manual process

    360 votes

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    Hi all, appreciate and understand the support in being able to automate processes such as communication of payment received with a customer.

    Though seemingly simple there are a few complexities that'd need to be accommodated for when considering the solution here - such as behaviour for re-reconciliations (Remove & redo has been used), split transactions or Mark as reconciled is used.

    Our product teams in this area are working on building on beautiful experiences throughout Bank Reconciliation, which you'd have  have experienced this first with the Reconcile tab and they are now moving through other pages and features in Bank Rec - This'll take some time and with that at the fore-front right now we want to be upfront that we don't have immediate plans to add an automated email when a transaction line is reconciled.

    As we embark work on the Account Transactions tab we'll be able to revisit…

  10. Ability to assign a user where they can only have Invoice only and view only reports.

    Purpose: To make user permission easier to set up, rather than having to upgrade them into Standard. As this will allow a user having access to more confidential reports.

    167 votes

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  11. Ability to only allow some users to access specific reports.

    Purpose: Because in some organisation, only some people can only see the information for some reports.

    264 votes

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    Hi everyone, thanks for the interest in this idea.

    As you can appreciate, user roles span across the entire Xero product so there’s many combinations of permissions our customers want to see us build. Specifically, our reporting product team is very much aware of the challenges with the current permission sets relating to sharing individual reports with different users and are beginning to look into how we might be able to alleviate some of these reporting challenges.

    However, at this stage it’s far too early to anticipate or confirm any direction on where this discovery work will lead, but it will inform our next steps. Additionally, as I'm sure you can appreciate there are sensitivities of data access and security. Creating upgrades to user permissions will need very careful consideration. As most will be across, the reporting  team are leading up to retiring older versions of Xero’s reports on 31

  12. Ability to add ‘Send me a Copy’ check to also include other email addresses.

    Purpose: To make other colleague within the users' workplace get the copy of the email, so they’re all informed.

    42 votes

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  13. Ability to have read only permission when setting up staff access in Xero.

    Purpose: Because some staff aren’t allowed to make changes to certain area (e.g. access to bank accounts and reports).

    90 votes

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  14. Option to hide or delete the demo company in Xero.

    Purpose: Often a demo company creates confusion for users, so it’s better if they can hide/delete it.

    292 votes

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    Hi everyone, the demo company provides the ability to test and trial Xero features without impacting data in your live organisation. It's especially useful when you're getting started with the product or want to see how a feature works that you haven't used before.

    That said, we understand not all our customers want or need access to the demo company. We appreciate your feedback on being able to hide or remove this here, and our product team are aware of the interest and feedback surrounding this - Both from this direct thread and the previous commentary and votes from the older forum where this originated.

    While we don't have immediate plans, this is an area our team are looking to review. We will update you if there is any planned changes to this, through this idea.

  15. To have an option to automatically update the reversing journal.

    Purpose: To save time and help avoid errors in updating both entries.

    48 votes

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    Hi community, thanks for your input and support into this idea for auto updating related journals when an auto-reversing journal is edited. 

    While the team began to look into work involved, priorities have shifted and this is not something we'll be looking to develop at this time. 

    We'll move the status back to submitted and keep you informed if there is any movement.

  16. Ability to export and print files from Xero in bulk.

    Purpose: To have backup files and audit purposes.

    646 votes

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    Thanks for your expressions and feedback in a bulk download or print facility for Files (either from the Files library or at an individual transaction level)
    We know that bulk operations can be handy, however at this time we have no plans to develop this functionality. We know it might seem like a small feat, however often even small change is more tightly woven and intricate to solve beneath the surface.
    While we understand this must be frustrating to hear, we’re currently focused on making improvements in other areas of Xero and are unable to prioritise a bulk download or print feature right now.
    However, in situations like these there are often connected apps through the Xero App Store that may be able to assist. We appreciate and will revise solutions that could fulfil needs in this space, but want to be honest this isn’t something we have plans for…

  17. Ability to restrict access to specific tracking categories for some users in Xero org.

    Purpose: To help users hide the incoming and outgoing transactions from some users within the Xero org. Some organisations (e.g. not for profit) need this to protect the privacy of their donors and departments.

    53 votes

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  18. Ability to rename the files in Xero Files once it’s attached.

    Purpose: To make other users in Xero (the one that doesn’t upload the file) can easily identify the file without having to click it.

    30 votes

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  19. Ability to add a default CC email address in the email template.

    Purpose: Users can easily input another email address when they have to add they create an email template.

    70 votes

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    Hi everyone, a few different asks within the idea here and I'd like to confirm what is currently possible to help clarify. 

    We have recently released a new send modal with new invoicing - with this update you now have the ability to cc and Bcc emails when sending individual invoices from Xero with new invoicing. 

    While it's not possible to set default cc and Bcc email at the email template level at present this may be something we look into further down the line and we will keep you updated of any planned improvements through this idea. 

    For the time being, if there are other people for a contact that you'd like to ensure also receive emails you can add them as additional people to the Contact record and select to 'Include this person in emails sent to this contact' 

    On the other hand, if you'd like to ensure…

  20. Ability to copy/duplicate details into Demo Company.

    Purpose: To easily test any changes in the Demo Company rather than implementing it directly into ‘Live Xero organisation’.

    44 votes

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