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Would be good to have a custom option to add any kind of relationship we need to e.g. siblings / in-laws etc

This is important to our practice as family members often refer one another, and it is also useful for staff not familiar with clients.

I'd also like to add: Successor Director for Companies and Successor Appointer for Trusts.

Unfortunately, Xero is going down the path of not listening to the end user whilst ever increasing prices. Maybe you need to poach someone from BGL to get better functionality in your program.

We would also like to see Sibling added as a relationship type

Even if it's just a custom relationship, so I can fill in what I want (eg sibling of, grandchild of)

I'm disappointed to see this hasn't been implemented yet. This feature is so essential, and I can't imagine it being difficult to add as part of the relationship functionality.

We really need this information field for our client records. It is becoming increasingly important for my team to work collaboratively without needing to access trust deed document.

Maybe take the users feedback rather than your own internal idea's, after all we are the end users Xero

Thanks for the suggestion Melissa. I agree, at a firm level we should have the flexibility to set up the relationship structures that we want to provide value and improve processes in our firm. I would like this suggestion implemented too please.

Can this be made a priority? Would like to see ex-spouse added to the list too. For a number of clients we still represent both husband and wife, although divorced. We don't want a staff member to make an assumption based on surname, or a prior yr return when they were together. How are firms tackling this in the interim?

In the related section of practice manager it would be good to have a bookkeeper option as I am currently using trustee to work around. They need to be linked and available to us.

We have a significant number of unit trusts and the unitholding is the defining factor of a unit trust - so surely it cannot be that hard to add one relationship type to XPM to cover a business structure that is already a default structure in XPM.

I agree, this would be a fantastic addition. At the moment, there is no way to connect and easily search the unit holders and it makes for additional work to search elsewhere.

Thank you Melissa for your suggestion.

Similarly, including the option of having " Shareholder of " selection in the relationship drop down box for SMSF clients

Add a relationship to be 'partner' rather than just spouse as clients are not always married. No way to reflect this accurately

Thank you Kelly, i am getting just a little frustrated that Xero asks for ideas but then the answer seems to be the same: Good idea but yeah nah, not doing it. Not happy, this idea seems not that complicated to me..........

Well said Jessica - obviously not a priority at all!

Hi Xero team. Are we going to get a response from you regarding addition of the Unitholder relationship anytime soon. Seems that this isn't a priority when this thread has been dragging on since 2022.

The option of unitholder would be great along with Sibling and Executor. It would also be good to have an option of De facto as another option to Spouse.