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It's so hard to find the history of activity when a contact is in Xero 3 times with slightly different names. I also believe there should be an ability to restrict staff from creating a new contact

The ability for only some users to be able to create new contacts would be a great choice to have. It's such a mess when clients are reconciling some of their own transactions and the who line prefills with data from the bank rec etc. One of my clients has a tonne of clients that start with 'transfer to bla bla bla'

There would need to be some mechanism to accomodate this with integrations as well. For example, if Dext creates a similar vendor name on a bill, and then that bill is synced to Xero, is it possible to create some sort of system task that I would need to resolve when I next log in to Xero for that client?

It's very hard to do a full report on the Activity for a contact when sometimes they exist multiple times due to staff changes. New contact should be restricted to high level staff.

I just had to manually archive over 2,000 contacts leaving only 420 as actual useful contacts that weren't duplicates or created due to a typo

Xero needs an option to turn on or off the automatic contact creation that happens with each new bank transaction. This is not what contacts are intended for.

Or if not possible a way to link all transactions to one default contact.

The same happens with us too and it happens too often, resulting everytime to archive the unwanted contact. It will be nice before creating Xero gives a notification. This will surely help up avoiding unnecessary steps

Seems to be taking 3 years to make this update.

Can we prioritise this - as it keeps happening and nothing has been done since 2022.

Recently noticing new contacts are being created when i'm merely searching for a contact when drafting an invoice. Definitely should require further confirmation than nudging a tab button which I habitually use to confirm my search criteria.

Just a simple "cancel" or "confirm" button would suffice, to avoid automatically creating a new contact that is a double up - very annoying!

I agree - its a massive waste of time to have merge/archive contacts that should not have been created in the first place. Does not make for very tidy ledgers!

Yes please. This is annoying as **** - somtimes typing 'expe' changes the entry to Expenses, and sometimes it doesn't. I seem to be deleting various contacts every month that are a shortened version of the word expenses.

It would be better if when you import a bill - the software looks for similar contacts and asks if you want to create a new one or assign the bill to an existing one - this duplication of contacts is causing me some major duplication issues

I'd like to see a tickbox that prevents users from creating a new contact, much like the tick box that restricts the adding of a new bank account.

As per the below notes. This would be a great advantage. I've just been through and merged all the duplicates, but I'd prefer not to have to keep redoing this exercise every month because a user is in a hurry and doesn't check the drop downs. It's too easy to add a new contact in the invoice/bill screens!

There has been countless times where I manually input an order we have received from a repeat buyer, and only after I fill out the company name, primary person, contact details, address, and then click save, it informs me that 'Contact name must be unique'.

Coming from Quickfile, this has a feature which would automatically detect the contact/comapny name already exists within your contacts, so saves you having to input all the above information.

Would it be possible to have a feature like this added to Xero?

It is all too easy to make a duplicate contact in Xero. It is simple enough to merge contacts, so identifying them first is critical.

Finding and merging dupe contacts is such a time waste with many dozens created monthly and then even different versions of the same ones a few months later. please create a restriction feature at a minimum or a pop up question if that is easier to create

i have the same issue - to many duplicate contacts are being created - the system should not allow such easy contact creations. there should be a way that only admin and senior reviewers are able to create contacts