Practice Manager | Clients - Date of death field for client details
Date of death field to add in to client details would be helpful

Hi team, we appreciate your engagement and letting us know how a field for adding a clients date of death would help you when working with Xero. We understand having this field would save time hunting around for info when you're preparing tax returns and other client work, and we want you to know this work is being prioritised for development with our product teams.
As soon as there's more progress we'll share an update on this, with you all here.
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Paul Howlett commented
Frankly, Kelly, any suggestion that this would take more than a single dev a single week to implement is insulting.
Go into database
Find 'contact details' section
Find 'Date of Birth' line entry
Insert new line entry underneath
Line Entry Name 'Date of Death'
Line Entry Type 'date'Now your dev has 39 hours and 58 minutes left of their workweek to 'debug' or get coffee or whatever, and you can mark this "PrOdUcT iDeA" closed.
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Carey Batchelor commented
We created a "date of death" field as a custom field in XPM. However, would be good if you could add it under Tax and Company so that the date filters through to the "date of death (if applicable)" field in the individual tax return.
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Louise Harris commented
This is a must field and should be included under date of Birth in contacts. We should not have to create a custome field for this requirement.
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Dande Taxplan commented
There are a lot of things you can do in MYOB that you can't do in Xero as we are just now finding out. This should be a standard field in any decent practice management software.
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Rebecca Walsh commented
Relevant and should be included as a matter of some importance to Tax Returns and reference for all Team Members
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Kath Elston commented
Can you please organise to include this under date of birth field.
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Babs Bright commented
I agree
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Jocelyn Tamai commented
I agree! Would really love to have this as a standard field right under DOB, rather than having to create a custom field. We shouldn't have to go hunting for the DOD when it can just be added to the sidebar with the other contact details.
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Riki Blake commented
Date of death field, will this be added to client records at any time soon? this should be a standard field in the tax practice manager software.
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Tracey Robinson commented
So important as a standard field and right next to date of birth.
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Michelle Kinscher commented
Should be a standard field and under/next to date of birth!
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Jacqui Turner commented
Very important that we have relevant information on our clients, that goes for DOD
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Tim Gay commented
Vital to ITR prep.
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Sally Quayle commented
relevant and should be a standard field
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Sheree Allen commented
Date of death field is a very relevant field and should be listed as a standard field
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Tara Sharp commented
"Date of Death" should be an option under "Contact Details" so listed in main area and to avoid adding this this information to another area such as "Fax" and avoid adding a custom field which would be located further down under client profile.
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Sharon Klabikowski commented
it is very important that we have updated information on our clients that goes for DOB & DOD
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Eleanor Campbell commented
We would love this feature. It saves time hunting for this information elsewhere or writing it into a field that should be used for other information.
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Anne-Maree Crosby commented
We also have a custom field but agree it would be better as a standard field & show on home page if filled in.
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Naomi Williams commented
yes please!!