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Inventory - Create groups/combinations of items
Combo packages as in the required ladies, lawn mower lady weed eater lady trimmer lady and the rakers
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Xero Product Ideas - Improve navigation & search
There seems to be a trend to hide the button that is used to post a discussion or submit a product idea amongst others. It appears that you click on a link that you think should take to the "submit new product idea" page, and when you get there and enter in your idea, you realise it was a search box that is searching for existing ideas. Fair enough, force me to search first, patronising but I guess it reduces Xero's workload (not mine though). But where is the button to submit the product idea? And how do I get rid of that drop down search box so that I can see if the submit new idea button is behind it? After some time, I discover that to submit a new idea, I need to
1) ignore the search box that I am presented with,
2) click on the "Browse Ideas" button which is not intuitive because I was just forced to search through ideas and didn't find one so why would I want to browse ideas now?
3) be presented with another search box that now turns out to be one where you can submit your new idea.
Why make it so hard? And why through implication do you want to misdirect the user?Why use the search box in one page where the user expects it to be used to submit ideas as a search only box and then in another page where the user expects the box to be used for searching only (that's why to get there you need to click the "browse ideas" button), why use that search box as one that can submit ideas?
On the first page, you suggest initially that the user will be able to submit ideas only to teach the user that the box that looks like it should submit ideas doesn't submit them, it only searches.
On the next page, you suggest that the link will take you to browsing through ideas and present another search box but this time, when the user isn't expecting it, this search box can also submit new ideas.
When designing new interfaces, count the number of clicks required and justify each and ever extra click you add to the process. And when justifying, try to ignore things that make Xero's workload easier, because Xero is here not to serve Xero, it's here to serve the users.
With the new product ideas page, change the names of buttons so they accurately reflect what the button will lead to.
When guiding the user (or forcing the user) to search first before submitting, make it clear that is what you are doing. Don't present a search box without clear and express writing saying that before you can submit an idea, we want you to search whether it has been suggested before.
When deciding whether to make the user do something, like search existing ideas, ask yourself whether the user is 1) the best suited person for that job and 2) if it is appropriate to have the user do something that Xero should be doing itself. Xero staff will be much more familiar with the existing new product ideas so they will be able to do a better job searching and will be able to do it quicker. And why would you want to have a user (who you have already frustrated due to the confusing process to submit a new idea) have that user do the search when you know they won't do as good a job and Xero staff will probably have to search for duplicates themselves anyway?
There seems to be a trend to hide the button that is used to post a discussion or submit a product idea amongst others. It appears that you click on a link that you think should take to the "submit new product idea" page, and when you get there and enter in your idea, you realise it was a search box that is searching for existing ideas. Fair enough, force me to search first, patronising but I guess it reduces Xero's workload (not mine though). But where is the button to submit the product idea? And how do I get…
4 votesAppreciate the feedback, Martin. As you noted you do need to search ideas first and to create one you'll need to enter a forum and search where you'll then get an option to Post a new idea if lone of the results doesn't match what you're after.
Understand how this could be simpler and while we don't have any immediate plans on this, we;ll update you here if any are made.
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AU Payroll - Show number of employee's allowed depending on subscription
Display number of employee's allowed depending on the subscription they're on, in the Employee list screen.
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Find and Recode - Grand total for line total column
When using find and recode it would be helpful to show the grand total of the line total column at the bottom. This way you know if the isolated transactions in your Excel worksheet matches with all the conditional filtered transactions in find and recode.
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Reporting - Sankey Diagrams
I would like to suggest adding the capability to generate Sankey diagrams within Xero. Sankey diagrams are highly effective in visualizing the flow of resources, such as money, energy, or data, through different stages or categories. They could be used to illustrate cash flow, revenue distribution, and expense breakdowns in a more intuitive and engaging way.
By adding Sankey diagrams, Xero could offer users a more dynamic and insightful view of their financial data, helping them better understand how money moves through their business, leading to improved decision-making and reporting.
3 votesInteresting idea and good to hear the different visualisations that'd help our customers understand their business, Paul. This isn't something we have immediate plans for but will be good to get a understanding of the interest from the community here.
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UK Payroll - Annualised working patterns
Please introduce annualised working patterns, which will enable unpaid hours to be worked out correctly.
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Hubdoc - Link bills uploaded from Hubdoc to Purchase Orders in Xero
We publish a large quantity of bills from Hubdoc to Xero. To implement a purchase order system we will need to be able to link these bills from Hubdoc to Purchase orders created in Xero. Otherwise Hubdoc is not really of use to us and will make the work load more.
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NZ GST - Option to convert GST Return into a Bill
Once a GST return is filed, rather than creating a bill could there be an option to 'convert this GST return into a bill'? Then it will sit in the payables report (as a reminder to set the payment!)
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Invoicing | Payment - Show invoice details by default
Ever since Xero updated the online view to hide invoice info, I get one or two clients a month asking me what they're being billed for.
Of course all they have to is click for details, but users are funny that way... they're not seeing it, and there's really no good reason to have this info hidden. I wish there were at least a setting to show them as expanded/visible by default, or even just have the first bit revealed so people would notice that they can click to expand.
As it stands I have people who think I'm invoicing them with no explanation and no line items. For every 1-2 who ask, I'm sure there are at least 1-2 more who don't.
Ever since Xero updated the online view to hide invoice info, I get one or two clients a month asking me what they're being billed for.
Of course all they have to is click for details, but users are funny that way... they're not seeing it, and there's really no good reason to have this info hidden. I wish there were at least a setting to show them as expanded/visible by default, or even just have the first bit revealed so people would notice that they can click to expand.
As it stands I have people who think I'm invoicing…
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UK Payroll - Notification for cancelled leave
I have had a few scenarios where an employee requests leave and then I have gone into Xero and there are no requests. The employee has cancelled the request, but I have no visibility on this and so I have to reach out to the employee and check so could a notification be sent if an employee cancels a leave request before it is approved? Or if the leave request was left in Xero, but with a 'cancelled by employee' status or something? It is important to have visibility in some form.
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New invoicing - View payments details within invoice screen
When reviewing a payment for an invoice, you need to click 3 times to review the transaction details..going into 4 screens, as it's on a separate screen (1-invoice 2-payment 3-transaction 4-transaction details). It would be more efficient to have the transaction details screen build into the same screen as the transaction screen. I don't see a need for a 4th screen, especially when you have click to go back to the previous screens when investigating multiple payments.
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Sales | Refunds - Ability to process in bulk
We would like to upload a batch of customer refunds via csv instead of going in one by one to do a refund per customer per invoice.
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AU Payroll - Pay Day Superannuation
The ability to make pay day superannuation contributions (on a weekly basis) prior to the government mandated deadline of 2026.
6 votesHi Tom, it's already possible to pay superannuation contributions weekly. Auto Super allows you to make superannuation payments as regularly as you'd like. Are there further enhancements to this process that you feel would make it easier for you to make weekly super payments?
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ability to edit including remove header from invoice cover note
The ability to edit including remove header from invoice cover note (that is company name, invoice amount, due date and invoice number).
2 votesHi Jacqui, when you refer to the Invoice Cover note would this be the email that is sent to the customer or within the attached invoice (online or PDF). If the latter you can use Invoice templates to customise the look of an invoice to your customer.
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AU Payroll - Ability to export timesheets to PDF
When you go into Payroll Overview-Timesheet to Approve-then click on the individual timesheet can you please add an option to export the timesheet to pdf for printing.
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AU Payroll - Employee Leave type settings report
We are after a report which shows the leave accrual rates for each individual employee in bulk report. I know we can view each individual employee by clicking on their leave balance and looking at the "Hours of leave accrued annually by a full-time employee. However for businesses with a large number of employees, this is very time consuming, therefore we would like a bulk report we can run to view all employees accrual rates in the one report.
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Reconciliation - Flag any transaction for Review
We need a way to flag a transaction, either a sales, bill or account transaction that can then be pulled into a report for review before finalising BAS's etc.
Whether that be a spend money that you are awaiting a Tax Invoice for, a bill that is in dispute, or a sales that need follow up.
Could it be in the Bank Reconciliation menu where you can then pull the "discuss" notes into a report and the query notes could be there?
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NZ Payroll - History and notes in Payroll to show changes made
There should be an audit trail in Payroll detailing when changes to an Employee record is made (for example: date an address was updated for an employee and what it was until that date, likewise for other details such as email address, bank account number, tax code etc). As an Employer we should be able to rely on the digitised Payroll system we are using to determine when changes to an Employee's record has been made. In terms of creating an audit trail, this doesn't necessarily only apply to Payroll only and should ideally be something that is normal and embedded right across the platform, however when it comes to Payroll and employees, this basic functionality would be extremely useful in the event of HR/Employment issues or even when dealing with Inland Revenue regarding an employee's details.
There should be an audit trail in Payroll detailing when changes to an Employee record is made (for example: date an address was updated for an employee and what it was until that date, likewise for other details such as email address, bank account number, tax code etc). As an Employer we should be able to rely on the digitised Payroll system we are using to determine when changes to an Employee's record has been made. In terms of creating an audit trail, this doesn't necessarily only apply to Payroll only and should ideally be something that is normal and…
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Email to Bills - Automate entry of Line items
Automatically captures each line items as indicated in the bill when sending bills directly to draft using Xero Bills email link provided
18 votes -
Chart of accounts - Option to exclude account from cash basis reports
Choose your cash basis accounts - After coming to the forum becuase I haven't found a way to remove non-cash accounts from cash basis reports I saw a bunch of people asking for depreciation to be ADDED to the reports. So obviously we all want something different. How about each account on the COA has another checkbox (like the "show on dashboard", "enable payments" check boxes) that gives the user the option to EXCLUDE FROM CASH basis REPORTS. I can remove all the deferred revenue, someone else can add in depreciation, and we can all have the cash basis reports we want.
At the very least, cash basis reports should show the user a set of GLs to opt to include or exclude.
The fact is that right now I can't run a cash basis P&L because I use deferred revenue, and that just isn't right.Choose your cash basis accounts - After coming to the forum becuase I haven't found a way to remove non-cash accounts from cash basis reports I saw a bunch of people asking for depreciation to be ADDED to the reports. So obviously we all want something different. How about each account on the COA has another checkbox (like the "show on dashboard", "enable payments" check boxes) that gives the user the option to EXCLUDE FROM CASH basis REPORTS. I can remove all the deferred revenue, someone else can add in depreciation, and we can all have the…
2 votes
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