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Transfer already saved P&L layout from old P&L platform onto the new P&L report with compare tracking categories
Option to utilise already saved P&L layout from old P&L platform onto the upgraded reports platform and able to apply this saved layout onto all different types of P&L reports including compare tracking categories, compare depts etc.
We should not need to edit the layout of each report again just for the new platform when we already got the layout saved the way we needed it to be in the old platform.
2 votesHey Gladys, thanks for sharing this idea! The 'Layout Importer' tool was available during our transition to the new reports, it's since been retired along with the old reports.
If you still need a hand setting up your Profit and Loss report, have a chat with our support team.
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AU Payroll - Submit Leave Request via SMS
Provide the functionality to receive leave requests by SMS notification.
1 voteThanks for sharing your idea with the community here, Rachel. I see it hasn't really picked up interest and with the ability for employees ti submit leave requests via the Xero Me app that is accessible from a mobile device we don't have any plans for developing SMS capability.
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Global Pay Run: Display employee number on payslip
We allocated a number for each employee and would like to display it in the pay slip. It would be great if xero can allocate a space similar to the existing employee tax number.
4 votesThanks for voting and feeding back through Xero product ideas. You may have heard that we’re making some changes to Global Pay Run that we believe will help our customers manage payroll more effectively;
- From 23 July 2025 Global Pay Run will become read-only. You'll still be able to see all your past payroll information, however you will not be able to process any new pay runs after this date.
- Global Pay run will be retired after April 2026, at which point you'll no longer be able to access pay run.
With this focus, we want to be upfront that there are no intentions to make improvements to Global Pay Run moving forward, and I'll move any ideas related to this to Not planned.
If you're from a region where we offer dedicated payroll products (AU, NZ and UK) specifically designed for your regions unique requirements, you…
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Global search - Bespoke search parameters
Ability to customise search parameters bespoke to company requirements.
Current search availability is far too narrow and hindering.
Presently using FreeAgent to find information to then be able to input in Xero to actually continue working - or having to put all relevant data in reference box. Frustrating!1 voteHi Michelle, do appreciate your feedback however I want to be open that we don't have intentions of enabling a bespoke search for everything in Xero. In order to search a field there is work that needs to be done by our teams to enable this to run across different fields and areas in the product.
It would be good to understand if there are specific ways, or items that you'd like to search in Xero and how this would help you find or navigate to items when using Xero.
You'll find there are many ideas that have been started around these sort of things here on the site that you're welcome to add your support too, or you can always start a new one if it's not already been raised.
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Hidden field for invoice in the API
Ability within the API to assign hidden data to an invoice. The additional field can be a string(255) that can accept data in any format (e.g. JSON), or any other format of data an internal system might need.
This would enable other systems linking to xero to pass specific data to and from internal systems and link invoices back using the API.
We currently pass some data using the reference, but this is visible to customers on the invoice so can cause confusion and it not as useful as passing JSON data.
2 votesHi Juliet, appreciate you joining community here. For ideas that relate to Xero's API we have a Developer forum where you can ask for these sort of changes. There are also experts in this field involved in the site there to communicate any change and keep users updated on ideas for connecting to Xero.
We'll remove your idea from the site here, but I encourage you to add this to Xero's Developer Community Feature request site over here.
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Send invoice reminder for specific invoice
send invoice reminder for one specific invoice
1 voteHi Shirley, we don't have plans for developing this any time in the near future.
However, in the case of an individual invoice, you can simply send the invoice to the customer again. If you'd prefer to use the wording of your invoice reminder email template - go to Invoice Reminders within your Invoice Settings first to copy & paste the detail. If this is something you'd frequently use, perhaps even set it up as an email template you can use on the fly.
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Bank Reconciliation: Automatically recognise and remove duplicate statement lines
Imported bank statements - propose for Xero to spot "duplicate" transactions as to remedy this situation I had to process a large number of lines one by one across a number of different accounts
6 votesHI everyone, returning to the idea here we're going to move this to Not planned. However, we understand wanting to ensure the accuracy of your bank statements and reconciliations in Xero.
As mentioned in my last update - Xero won't automatically delete duplicate statement lines for you, however you can run the Duplicate statement lines report to help identify and remove duplicates, so you can choose which of the statement lines in your bank account you'd like to keep and reconcile.
There is also the Statement exceptions report in the Bank Reconciliation report pack that'll show where statement lines have been deleted in an account due to being a duplicate.
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2 votes
Hi Claire, appreciate you engaging the community here. Xero has an API that allows interested apps to build and integrate with Xero themselves, however we don't often build and develop integrations ourselves.
You can share the link to our Developer community with mymusicstaff.com and see if this is something they'd consider developing.
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Profit & Loss Reports - Change variance column for costs
The variance columns in the current P&L reports don't make sense - increased costs show as positive variances, despite the red arrow. The formula is fine for revenue and profit, but needs to be the other way round for costs. Is it possible to have this, or to add a column with different formulae for different sections?
7 votesHi team, to confirm how the Budget Variance report works currently it'll show;
- Green arrows for favourable amounts
- Red arrows for unfavourable amounts
- Increases in the amount from budget will have an upward arrow
- Decreases in amounts from budget will have a downward arrow
We appreciate your feedback here however being open, there are no plans to change the way this logic is applied in the report, or to extend the arrow colouring across the figures/amounts in the report.
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Global Payroll: YTD Earnings and deductions on Payslips
An Employee's payslip gives the current pay period earnings, deductions and net take home pay. It's missing YTD earnings and deductions information on a payslip. Please consider including the same in your future updates. Thanks, We are a Canadian based business.
3 votesHi community, we’re making some changes to Global Pay Run to help you manage your payroll more effectively;
- From 23 July 2025 Global Pay Run will become read-only. You'll still be able to see all your past payroll information, however you will not be able to process any new pay runs after this date.
- Global Pay run will be retired after April 2026, at which point you'll no longer be able to access pay run.
We appreciate your input on how we can improve Xero for you, however with this change coming we don't have any plans to further develop Global Pay Run, and will move any ideas related to this on the site to Not planned.
If you're from a region where we offer dedicated payroll products (AU, NZ and UK) specifically designed for your regions unique requirements, you may want to explore transitioning to Xero…
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Profit and Loss report - Add Compare Activities to the new Profit and Loss report
When bringing the current layout over from the Profit and Loss report to the new report. When compare activities is selected on the current report the layout stays the same. When using compare activities on the new report the layout changes/it opens a new report. Please enable the layout to stay the same on the new report when the compare activities function is chosen, as happens at the moment.
1 voteHey Sarah, thanks for sharing this idea! The 'Layout Importer' tool was available during our transition to the new reports, it's since been retired along with the old reports.
If you still need a hand setting up your Profit and Loss report, have a chat with our support team.
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Global Pay Run - Hide Voided Pay Run from Main Pay run page
Hiding Voided Pay Run from showing on the Main Pay Run Page.
It will be great to have a functionality that allows you hide payruns that have been voided from showing on the main payrun list.
When approved payruns cannot be edited, the only option is to void and create a new one. If a functionality can allow editing approved pay run, then there will be no need. But now, we need to have a function to hide the voided payruns.
A screenshot has been attached for clearer understanding for voting and implementation.
2 votesHi team, we appreciate your feedback and sharing how this idea could benefit your business. However, as you may have received recently communication of - We’re making some changes to Global Pay Run to help you manage your payroll more effectively;
- From 23 July 2025 Global Pay Run will become read-only. You'll still be able to see all your past payroll information, however you will not be able to process any new pay runs after this date.
- Global Pay run will be retired after April 2026, at which point you'll no longer be able to access pay run.
This means that we don't have any plans for further development of our Global Pay Run product, and will move any ideas related to this on the site to Not planned.
If you're from a region where we offer dedicated payroll products (AU, NZ and UK) specifically designed for…
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Financial Statements - move copy and edit button
Move "copy and edit" button to top of page for quicker access
14 votesThanks for sharing the idea here, however, we're going to move this idea to not planned as we don't have any plans of moving the placement of the 'Copy and edit' button within a report.
You'll find within all Xero's reports the bottom options bar is frozen, so you can find this option permanently on the page.
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Provide an API within expenses for apps such as ApprovalMax to pull information from
Our business currently uses ApprovalMax to have bills and purchase orders approved. It would be great if Xero could offer the API function for expenses also so that expenses can be automatically sent to approvers.
2 votesHey Amna, thanks for sharing your suggestion! We have a dedicated platform for API suggestions over on the developer support site.
If you'd like to suggest improvements to the API, or request new API functions, your best bet would be to raise it with the team there 😊
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choose where an ABA file downloads on my computer
Dear Xero,
Currently, when downloading an ABA file it will save in the Downloads folder by default. And there's currently no feature in Xero that allows us/ users to choose the location of this download.
Are you able to help fix this issue, so the users of Xero are given the opportunity to choose the location, where the ABA file gets saved?
1 voteHey Shamina, download location is handled by your browser settings, so it's not possible for Xero to make this change.
For example, to change the download location on Chrome, you can head to Settings > Download > Location.
From there you'll be able to select a new folder to save your downloads to, or have you browser prompt you for a location each time.
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Contacts - Gmail integration
I would like to see the integration with Gmail (and other emails) to the Contacts back. Not sure why this has been removed, but it was very useful
2 votesHi Des, after careful consideration and investigation, this feature no longer provides the product experience that meets our standards at Xero. As part of a bigger project to enhance and improve the contacts overview page later on in 2023 this feature to connect Gmail and Office365 to contact in Xero will be removed - We have an article that shares more detail about this on Xero Central.
If you'd like to save a file to a contact record, you can continue to do so by downloading the document from your Gmail or Office365 account and uploading this in the 'Related files' in the top right of the Contacts overview page.
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AU Payroll - Support for more than 4 employees on Payroll Only plan
I have a client moving to a different platform for accounting but still needed a stand alone payroll platform for 23 employees and Xero does not offer this so we would be paying for all the other functionality that we won't be using to stay on Xero for payroll
4 votesHi everyone, though we appreciate the feedback we've received from you on plans here - as you'll have had communication of, with the launch of our new plans we made the decision to no longer offer a Payroll Only plan.
Payroll is now offered within our Grow, Comprehensive and Ultimate plans that you can read more detail of what's encompassed with each on our website.
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Obtaining a PAYG payment summary for an employee when employer is using STP
I would like to be able to obtain and print out an employee's PAYG payment summary (ATO now calls these Income Statements) from Xero. I am using STP. Employee does not agree to ATO's terms and conditions in MyGov so can't obtain the PAYG Payment Summary from there and ATO was resistant to posting it to the employee but when finally agreed to do so said it would take 4 weeks!
2 votesHey Ralph, it's not possible in Xero to access and print out income statements from an employee's MyGov account.
Whilst much of the information in an Income Statement comes from the STP filed as an employer, this doesn't allow us to access or provide income statements to employees through Xero.
In these cases we'd really recommend working with the ATO for a resolution, as they'll need to confirm the income statement is 'Tax Ready'.
More on income statements can be found on the ATO website.
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AU Payroll | STP 2 - Report of changes to employees
I would like to be able to run a report in Xero to see the updates I have made to the employees list and spot errors if any. This will help to review, identify errors in an efficient manner.
6 votesThanks for raising the idea here, Harshita. While there's a downloadable CSV for the Pay Item transition, this isn't something that's available for employee changes as part STP 2 transition.
The nature of the transition tool means you won't have to repeat these steps once rolled out, and being open with this we'll mark the idea as not planned.
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Invoice - Display sales margin
Xero has the sell price and cost price of our products. When my sales team create a quote or invoice, why isn’t there a display of the profit margin on invoices and quotes to help them see their profitability?
4 votesHi team, though we don't have plans to include at an invoice level, you can run the Inventory Item details report to view the margin of items within a period.
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